A Timeline Of The Capital Gazette Shooting And Trial

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — More than 3 years aft a gunman went connected a shooting rampage astatine the Capital Gazette newsroom successful Annapolis, shooter Jarrod Ramos was sentenced Tuesday to beingness successful prison. Below is simply a timeline chronicling the events that unfolded connected June 28, 2018, and the tribunal proceedings that resulted from the wide shooting.

Timeline of Events

June 28, 2018: A gunman enters the Capital Gazette offices with a “long gun,” shoots done a solid doorway and fires astatine aggregate employees. Five staffers astatine the The Capital are killed successful the attack: editorial leafage exertion Gerald Fischman, 61; adjunct exertion Rob Hiaasen, 59; sports newsman John McNamara, 56; income adjunct Rebecca Smith, 34; and assemblage analogous Wendi Winters, 65.

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Several different employees were injured successful the shooting.

The suspect, aboriginal identified arsenic Jarrod Ramos, was arrested astatine the scene, wherever helium was found with fake grenades and was carrying fume bombs oregon flashbangs successful his backpack. Ramos was charged with 5 counts of first-degree murder. A justice ordered Ramos beryllium held without bail.

July 20, 2018: Anne Arundel County prosecutors files a 23-count indictment against Ramos.

Ramos had a long-standing quality with the insubstantial aft it published a communicative astir his harassment of a erstwhile classmate. He besides had a past of making threats.

July 21, 2018: Students from a Maryland schoolhouse wherever a miss was killed successful a shooting and Capital newsman Selene San Felice rally extracurricular the Maryland State House to telephone for stronger weapon power measures.

July 28, 2018: On the one-month day of the shooting the metropolis holds “Annapolis Rising: A Benefit for The Capital Gazette and Free Press,” featuring unrecorded euphony and impermanent speakers from the journalism world. Proceeds spell to a money established for the victims and survivors, arsenic good arsenic journalism scholarships.

July 30, 2018: Attorneys for Ramos enter a not blameworthy plea and contend immoderate recognition of their lawsuit astatine proceedings volition beryllium tainted owed to “impermissible” recognition procedures utilized by police.

Aug. 20, 2018: Ramos appears successful tribunal and a proceedings is scheduled for Jan. 15, 2019.

Nov. 16, 2018: The proceedings is postponed until June 2019 arsenic the justice allows the defence to research a plea of not criminally responsible.

Dec. 11, 2018: TIME Magazine releases it’s 2018 ‘Person of the Year’ award to journalists who were either imprisoned oregon killed for their enactment astir the world, including Fischman, Hiaasen, McNamara, Smith and Winters. The mag calls it “The Guardians and the War connected Truth.” Included successful the database are the 5 victims of the Capital Gazette shooting successful Annapolis.

Dec. 17, 2018: In effect to a outcry of “FAKE NEWS – THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!” from then-President Donald Trump, Capital lensman Joshua McKerrow tweets, “Wendi was nary ones enemy” and shares details astir community-focused reporting.

March 29, 2019: June 28 is officially declared Freedom of the Press Day successful Maryland successful grant of the 5 Capital Gazette victims. 

April 16, 2019: The Capital Gazette wins a peculiar Pulitzer Prize citation for its sum and courageousness successful the look of a massacre successful its newsroom.

Before the announcement, paper employees gathered successful their newsroom to retrieve the 5 staffers who were killed.

April 29, 2019: Lawyers for Ramos file a plea of blameworthy but not criminally liable by crushed of insanity.

June 3, 2019: Ramos makes different appearance successful court, during which prosecutors accidental a intelligence valuation of the accused shooter is “ongoing.” Jury enactment is scheduled for Oct. 30.

That aforesaid day, the Newseum successful Washington, D.C. pays tribute to the Capital Gazette journalists killed during the shooting rampage by etching their names into a memorial wall.

June 28, 2019: On the one-year day of the shooting, The Capital releases a peculiar edition describing however the survivors person coped with the trauma and utilized each different to heal and effort to determination forward. Community members stitchery to dedicate a memorial plot to the 5 victims astatine Acton Cove Park.

Oct. 21, 2019: During a pretrial hearing, Judge Laura Ripken says a wellness section valuation recovered that Ramos is legally sane.

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Nov. 19, 2019: Andrea Chamblee, John McNamara’s woman of 33 years, holds an event with household and friends to observe the merchandise of “The Capital of Basketball,” a publication of her husband’s writings connected precocious schoolhouse hoops.

Jan. 7, 2020: Judge Ripken unseals immoderate documents successful the lawsuit but orders others inactive beryllium kept from nationalist presumption aft the newspaper’s lawyer demanded much transparency successful the case. 

Many of the documents that stay nether seal see reports astir Ramos’ intelligence health.

Feb. 10, 2020: Ramos’ proceedings is delayed until June.

July 7, 2020: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ramos’ proceedings is again delayed. The Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office says the caller proceedings dates for Jarrod Ramos are Dec. 7 done 18, with assemblage enactment happening connected Dec. 1 done 3.

Aug. 6, 2020: Ramos’ attorneys argue his Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated erstwhile a doc hired by the authorities went astir investigating him for a intelligence wellness evaluation, saying his jailhouse compartment was searched without his oregon his attorneys’ consent.

Aug. 12, 2020: The Capital Gazette offices are permanently closed by Tribune Publishing owed to COVID-19, but the paper’s unit continues moving remotely and is provided enactment abstraction astatine The Baltimore Sun.

Sept. 7, 2020: Capital Gazette reporters protest Tribune’s decision, saying it pulls them distant from the communities they cover.

Dec. 1, 2020: Ramos’ proceedings is delayed different time owed to a emergence successful COVID-19 cases.

Dec. 3, 2010: Congress passes a bill to authorize the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation to found a memorial successful D.C.  “Too many, including 5 guiltless souls mislaid successful the shooting astatine the Capital Gazette successful Annapolis, gave everything they had successful defence of democracy,” says Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, 1 of the bill’s co-sponsors. “This caller memorial volition grant the lives of those who died reporting the quality and supporting the media connected behalf of the American people. It volition beryllium a steadfast awesome of their sacrifice and the fragility of our democracy.”

Dec. 17, 2020: Wendi Winters posthumously receives the Carnegie Medal, the highest grant for civilian heroism. A quality merchandise announcing her grant credited Winters with charging astatine Ramos with recycling and garbage bins, telling him to stop.

Dec. 23, 2020: President Donald Trump signs the legislation to make a memorial successful the nation’s superior remembering fallen journalists.

April 13, 2021: Ramos appears successful court arsenic attorneys benignant retired however the proceedings volition look. The lawsuit is scheduled to statesman successful June.

June 28, 2021: On the three-year day of the shooting, the metropolis of Annapolis unveils a memorial called the “Guardians of the First Amendment,” featuring 5 pillars successful grant of Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters.

June 29, 2021: The proceedings begins with opening statements. Prosecutors accidental the suspect methodically planned the onslaught against the insubstantial for 2 years. Defense attorneys accidental his sister volition attest that Ramos lived an isolated life.

July 14, 2021: Following days of grounds astir the shooting and the prosecution’s assertion that Ramos is a narcissist who meticulously plotted his onslaught and a defence witnesser arguing helium may beryllium connected the autism spectrum, the attorneys for some sides remainder their case.

July 15, 2021: A assemblage of 8 men and 4 women unanimously finds Ramos was criminally liable for the 2018 shooting.

July 19, 2021: The families of the 5 Capital Gazette shooting victims sue The Baltimore Sun and its genitor company, Tribune Publishing, for the alleged information lapses.

July 21, 2021: Sentencing for Ramos is scheduled for Sept. 28. “He’s facing ne'er getting retired of situation ever,” Anne Arundel County’s State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess says. “It makes maine consciousness good, I deliberation that the assemblage needs to beryllium protected from the defendant.”

Aug. 3, 2021: In a missive to shooting subsister Rachael Pacella, President Joe Biden honors the 5 victims. “Our Nation volition ne'er hide them oregon the survivors of this tragedy,” Biden wrote. “Their loved ones stay successful my prayers arsenic they support live the memories of those they lost.”

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Sept. 28, 2021: Ramos is sentenced to much than 5 beingness presumption successful situation without the anticipation of parole, different beingness condemnation and an further 345 years successful prison.