People fatally shot at Maryland newspaper, suspect arrested

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BREAKING NEWS: Official says "5 fatalities, several others gravely injured" in Maryland newsroom shooting. Click to watch full coverage

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/break...ppwebview=true

[bungholio]

Click to watch???? Unless you're the jury or crazy, why would MSN want you to watch actual people being killed? I got burned out from watching too many cops unjustifiably killing innocent people who did exactly as cops asked when they asked and didn't deserve to be shot. I was going to check for info but that link really does only have a video, no info with it. I'm wondering who did what and why just as always, because there's rare moments where I really couldn't argue with the person about it. Did the entire news room worth of people do something incredibly terrible to the shooter which is incredibly unlikely, or was the shooter easily disgruntled about things or psychotic?

[dlevere]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The man suspected of killing five people in or near the offices of the Capital Gazette newspaper had sued the paper for defamation and lost, and an Anne Arundel County police official said, "It was quite obvious this individual had a vendetta against the Capital newspaper."

The alleged shooter was identified in a bulletin emailed to Maryland law enforcement officials as Jarrod Ramos, 38, of Laurel, Maryland. He has worked at the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to a lawyer who represented him in 2011, but it could not be confirmed Thursday whether he still worked there.

Ramos lives in an apartment near Route 1, in a cluster of three-story brick buildings about 35 minutes from the Capital Gazette offices. Police were preparing to serve a search warrant there Thursday night, and the building was evacuated.

Police said Ramos was initially uncooperative and was not carrying any identification, so there was a delay in identifying him.

Ramos seemed to carry a grudge for years against the newspaper after he was the subject of a column describing how he harassed a former classmate from Arundel High School online, first through Facebook and then through emails. Ramos pleaded guilty in July 2011 to harassment. In a column written by Eric Hartley several days later, the victim described how Ramos had stalked her online and perhaps caused her to lose her job.

Ramos then apparently created a website which detailed his complaints against Hartley and the newspaper, and noted that his conviction had been reduced to probation four months later. "I certainly did a bad thing," the website states, "but don't shun me for how it was portrayed by this newspaper."

In 2012, Ramos sued Hartley, his editor and the Capital Gazette for defamation in Prince George's County District Court. A hearing was held in March 2013, and a judge threw the case out.

Ramos appealed the ruling, and that was also rejected in September 2015 by the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. "He is aggrieved because the story was sympathetic toward the harassment victim and was not equally understanding of the harassment perpetrator," Judge Charles Moylan Jr. wrote. "The appellant wanted equal coverage of his side of the story. He wanted a chance to put the victim in a bad light, in order to justify and explain why he did what he did. That, however, is not the function of defamation law."

The day after the ruling, Ramos tweeted "F--- you, leave me alone," with a link to the opinion by Moylan. On Thursday, just minutes before he allegedly opened fire at the Capital Gazette's offices, he again tweeted, "F--- you, leave me alone," with a link to a Twitter account critical of Moylan.

Ramos' profile photo on Twitter is a photo of Hartley. Hartley did not respond to requests for comment. Before Thursday, Ramos had not tweeted since January 2016.

Ramos' lawyer in the harassment case, Christopher Drewniak, could not be reached for comment.

Ramos' harassment of his online victim apparently continued. Maryland court records show that in October 2014, a restraining order was entered against him ordering him not to have contact with the woman. Ramos pursued appeals of that order until 2016 but did not prevail.

Anne Arundel Deputy Police Chief William Krampf said that the Capital Gazette had received threats through social media earlier in the day, but the police were not aware of the threats until after the shooting. He declined to describe their content or whether they were from Ramos.

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[bungholio]

He got pissed that people got him for stalking and harassing a lady, and he admitted to it, and then decides to shoot people for it. Screw that guy, they can do whatever they want with the garbage, throw him in prison for life. I don't even know how to respond to this as usual. The lady gets a gets a restraining order against him and still won't leave her alone. He gets upset because of the way the news portrays him and decides to shoot people over it.

EDIT: It looks like they are still defiantly putting out a paper on Friday too even though the shooting occurred.
time.com/5326038/capital-gazette-shooting-putting-out-paper/