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In one of the deadliest attacks on the media in America, a US gunman on Thursday blasted his way through the newsroom of a Maryland newspaper with a shotgun and smoke grenades, killing at least five people and injuring two others.
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According to the police, the man, who had a long-running grudge against the Capital Gazette newspaper, fired through a glass door, looked for victims and then sprayed the newsroom with gunfire. (AP)
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The attacker, identified as 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos, has been arrested and the police are questioning him. The police have named it a "targeted attack" and said that Ramos' intention was to cause harm to the people. (AP)
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Maryland Police Lt. Ryan Frashure speaks to the media at the scene after multiple people were shot at a newspaper office building in Annapolis. (AP)
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The five people killed in tha attack are assistant editor Rob Hiaasen, editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, editor and reporter John McNamara, special publications editor Wendi Winters and sales assistant Rebecca Smith. (AP)
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In 2015, Ramos lost a defamation case he had brought against Eric Hartley, formerly a staff writer and columnist with publication The Capital, and Thomas Marquardt, then editor and publisher of The Capital over a 2011 column he contended defamed him. According to reports, that particular column contended that Ramos had harassed a woman on Facebook and that he had pleaded guilty to criminal harassment. (Reuters)
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A crime reporter with Capital Gazette, Phil Davis, said that he was hiding under his desk along with other newspaper employees when the shooter stopped firing. He also told the media that the newsroom looked like a war zone. (Reuters)
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The police officers in the Maryland capital of Annapolis responded within a minute to a 911 call about a shooting in progress and apprehended the suspect who was hiding under a desk. The shooting was considered a local incident by the police, with no links to terrorism. (Reuters)
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The police said that they have recovered what they thought was an explosive device but the suspect had smoke grenades. The investigators were in the process of securing his Maryland residence and obtaining search warrants, said the police. (Reuters)
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According to a local media report, the suspect seemed to have damaged his fingertips to try to avoid detection and was refusing to cooperate with the law. Law enforcement in Baltimore and New York City deployed extra officers to the offices of the New York Times and other major media outlets as a precaution. (Reuters)
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Capital Gazette ran multiple newspapers out of its Annapolis office and the group included one of the oldest newspapers in the United States, The Gazette, which traced its origins back to 1727. (Reuters)

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