The suspect currently being held in the shooting death of five people and the grave injury of others at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland has been identified as 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos of Maryland.
According to an MSNBC report, Ramos had a bad history with the newspaper and even filed a defamation lawsuit against it in 2012. CNN additionally reports that the story was about his stalking of a former high school classmate. The lawsuit was tossed out in 2015.
BREAKING: Suspect in Maryland newsroom shooting has been identified as Jarrod Ramos, 38, according to three senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. pic.twitter.com/Y9JJGCHfhq
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 29, 2018
The Capital Gazette reported on the dismissal in 2015:
Maryland’s second-highest court last week upheld a ruling in favor of Capital-Gazette Communications, a former reporter and a former publisher accused of defamation.
Jarrod Ramos of Laurel made the defamation claim in Prince George’s County Circuit Court in 2012 after a 2011 column by then-Capital staff writer Eric Hartley about Ramos’ guilty plea to criminal harassment.
Ramos also talked about the lawsuit on his website (now defunct).
Here are images via the Wayback Machine:
Ramos, armed with a long gun (other reports indicate a shotgun) reportedly shot through a glass door in the attack and was apprehended at the scene.
He also reportedly railed against the newspaper and the reporter he felt defamed him on Twitter. While the account has not yet been verified by police as belonging to Ramos, tweets from the same time period and matching Ramos’ name warn “Journalist Hell awaits.”
The Baltimore Sun also offers this harrowing note: “A Twitter page in Ramos’ name on Thursday featured Hartley’s picture as its avatar, and a banner image included photographs of Marquardt and the Capital’s former owner Philip Merrill.”
New York Daily News obtained this photo, reportedly of Ramos.
UPDATE: Suspect in Maryland newsroom shooting identified as Jarrod Ramos, 38https://t.co/InzpPDEuzB pic.twitter.com/DXn1RupS71
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 29, 2018
Ramos is reportedly not cooperating with police.
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[image via Twitter]
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