What is known about the shooter who shot the editors of the Capital Gazette in Maryland

US police suspect Jarrod Warren Ramos, 38, of attacking the newspaper Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. He writes about it News.ru with reference to Capital gazette. As a result, five people were killed, two more were injured. The suspect was detained by the police.

Jerrod Warren Ramos. Photo: Anne Arundel Police

According to the newspaper, a resident of Maryland Ramos in 2011 was mentioned in one of the articles of the newspaper, because of which he accused the publication of libel and even filed a lawsuit against journalists. The man criticized the activities of the publication in social networks. The shooter also pursued employees of Capital Gazette.

A seven-year-old Capital Gazette article said Ramos was sued for harassing a former classmate. He began to correspond with her on Facebook, and then complain, threaten and call out. The woman went to the police, Ramos stopped pestering, but after a few months he took up the old. As a result, the man was tried, he pleaded guilty to threats and received a three-month jail sentence.

Ramos filed a newspaper with a lawsuit for describing the story of harassment, where in 2015 he presented himself on his own and quickly lost, reports RIA News".

On Twitter, Ramos later appeared hundreds of negative entries about Capital Gazette. Tom Marquardt, who was the publisher of the newspaper before 2012, told reporters that Ramos had been pursuing his subordinates for several years. The staff were afraid of Ramos, he assures.

The Twitter microblog, allegedly owned by Ramos, uses as its user picture a photo of a journalist who published an article about him in 2011. The account's background information reads: “Dear reader, I created this page to protect myself. I will sue Anne Arundel County for all it's worth and turn the corrupt careers and corporations into corpses."

As Capital Gazette notes, the account in the name of Ramos contains a reference to the shooting at the Paris edition of Charlie Hebdo in 2015, which claimed the lives of 12 people. The page had not been updated since early 2016, but on Thursday, shortly before the shooting, an expletive appeared on it, accompanied by a note: “Leave me alone.”

As the press reports, Ramos, having entered the editorial office, locked the door behind him, then threw a smoke bomb and opened fire on those present.

In total, about 170 people were in the building at the time of the attack. County Police Chief Bill Krampft said at a news conference that officers arrived at the scene within about a minute. They detained the shooter - he offered no resistance and was hiding under the table. As the media suggested, the attacker hoped that he would be mistaken for an editorial employee and this would allow him to escape.

The criminal had smoke grenades on him. Initially, the police stated that they had discovered an object, allegedly an explosive device, at the shooting site, and had defused it. Later it turned out that they were talking about a bag with smoke grenades. As noted by the media, the authorities do not regard the incident as a terrorist attack.

Acting local sheriff William Krampf told reporters that Ramos was preparing for an attack and deliberately targeted people. According to him, the attacker had previously come to the attention of the police.

As the CBS, the shooter before the attack specifically injured his fingertips so that he could not be identified by fingerprints.

Recall all five of the victims were employees of the newspaper. Were previously Called the names of the dead: Wendy Winters, Rebecca Smith, Robert Hyassen, Gerald Fishman and John McNamara.

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