Capital Gazette Mass Shooter To Be Sentenced Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — The gunman found criminally responsible successful the 2018 wide shooting that killed 5 radical astatine the Capital Gazette paper is acceptable to beryllium sentenced Tuesday.

The shooter, Jarrod Ramos of Laurel, pleaded blameworthy successful October 2019 to 23 transgression counts. The transgression work trial–Maryland’s mentation of an insanity defense–spanned 2 weeks.

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He was recovered liable July 15, much than 3 years aft the shootings, meaning helium would walk the remainder of his beingness successful situation alternatively than a authorities hospital.

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Ramos had a longstanding grudge against the paper for an nonfiction they published astir his stalking of a erstwhile classmate. 

In an interview with WJZ, Anne Arundel County’s State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess the suspect could person 5 beingness sentences for each of the 5 victims. Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters were killed during the attack.

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CBS Baltimore Staff