Capital Gazette Shooter Jarrod Ramos Will Not Appeal Sentence Of Five Life Terms

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Capital Gazette gunman Jarrod Ramos volition not entreaty his jailhouse condemnation aft being recovered criminally liable for sidesplitting 5 people astatine the newspaper’s offices successful 2018.

The deadline for Ramos to record an entreaty passed connected Thursday, the Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office said.

In September, Ramos was sentenced to 5 beingness presumption successful situation without the anticipation of parole, 1 beingness word and an further 345 years successful prison.

Ramos pleaded blameworthy but not criminally liable to each 23 counts against him successful 2019, utilizing Maryland’s mentation of an insanity defense.

Following a two-week-long proceedings successful July, a assemblage recovered Ramos was criminally liable for the shootings.

On June 28, 2018, Ramos entered the Capital Gazette offices with a “long gun,” changeable done a solid doorway and fired 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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It was aboriginal revealed 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.