Photography Exhibition In Annapolis Library Features Surviving Family Of Capital Gazette Shooting Victims

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — As visitors locomotion into the Michael E. Busch Annapolis Library, they are greeted with images that archer galore stories.

The creator down the lens is Paul Gillespie. He’s a quality lensman who has thing successful communal with each idiosyncratic photographed successful the exhibit.

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“Some of them were successful the country with maine erstwhile the shooting happened,” said Gillespie. “It was horrible, horrible day.”

On June 28, 2018 Gillespie was astatine enactment astatine the Capital Gazette successful Annapolis erstwhile a gunman walked in.

“And that’s erstwhile I heard a large crash,” says Gillespie. “I concisely stood up and looked towards the beforehand doorway and that’s erstwhile I saw him travel in.”

Gillespie said, ” I conscionable curled up successful a shot and I started reasoning I can’t judge this is happening, and past I was similar ohio my God this is truly happening.”

When the gunman stopped firing, Gillespie took off.

“And arsenic I was moving past the Capital motion connected the wall, I heard a shotgun spell disconnected again and I felt a breeze stroke past the backmost of my head,” says Gillespie.

A photograph from wrong the newsroom showed his flight implicit breached glass. His determination to tally saved his life.

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Gillespie says constabulary aboriginal recovered the shooter hiding nether the aforesaid table wherever Gillespie took cover.

Five radical were murdered that day. Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters near household and friends behind.

“When these wide shootings hap it doesn’t conscionable impact the radical who were killed, it affects their families, it affects the community,” says Gillespie.

Gillespie’s photograph task with surviving household members is called “Journalists Matter: Faces of the Capital Gazette”. The grounds has go a root of healing.

“Everyone of these representation sessions I consciousness similar was a therapy league for maine and the subjects. So it was great, I mean it helped maine a lot, I anticipation It helped them too,” says Gillespie.

Time Magazine named the Capital Gazette unit Persons of The Year, they besides won a Pulitzer arsenic they continued to enactment aft their newsroom Was attacked.

“I deliberation I tin talk for everybody that we would springiness it each backmost conscionable to person nary of this ever hap and our radical inactive here,” says Gillespie.

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The grounds has been extended done the extremity of August. It’s located astatine the Anne Arundel County nationalist room astatine 1410 West Street successful Annapolis.

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