'This was a targeted attack': Authorities say threats were made on social media before the Capital Gazette shooting. In a news conference Thursday, Acting Anne Arundel County Police Chief William Krampf said threats were made on social media before the deadly shooting at the Capital Gazette, but it was not clear whether they came from the suspect. At least five people were killed in what police are calling a “targeted attack” on the Maryland newspaper. Krampf also said a white male in his late 30s has been arrested in connection with the shooting. Ref. USAToday
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'Yes, we’re putting out a damn paper': Capital Gazette releases Friday's front page. For Capital Gazette journalists used to covering the news, it seemed a surreal twist of fate as police and emergency responders swarmed their Annapolis, Maryland, building. Source 7l.
Suspect accused of Capital Gazette shooting filed a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper, court documents show. The suspect accused of killing at least five people at the Maryland newspaper had an ongoing dispute with the publication, court papers obtained Thursday show. A judge threw out a defamation lawsuit against Capital Gazette that was filed by Jarrod Ramos, 38, in 2012, saying that Ramos failed “to come close to alleging a case of defamation.” A Maryland appeals court further concluded that everything printed in a July 31, 2011 newspaper story about Ramos appeared to be true. Ref. USAToday.
Here is another case of someone being violent and having a history of anti-social behavior that was not checked. Now it reached a climax and people had to die because of it.
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