[67], In December 2018, the staff of Capital Gazette Communications was selected as a recipient of Time's Person of the Year 2018, as one of "The Guardians," a collection of journalists from around the world in their fight for the "War on Truth. [87][88] On April 29, 2019, the date of the extended deadline, Ramos entered a plea of not guilty and not criminally responsible, and the judge ordered that he be evaluated by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. "Like I was the walking embodiment of a mass shooting and meeting me...it would hit them all at once that this was real.". [82][84], On August 20, 2018, Ramos was seen in court for a brief hearing, where he pled not guilty to all charges, with a deadline of October 24 for his lawyers to enter a revised plea. Five people were killed and two others were injured in the attack. 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People will forget about us after a week. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. Capital Gazette Shooting Survivors Will Be On Podcast Miniseries The Capital Gazette shooting still pains local reporters. The term is derived from âlodo,â an Old High German word which means ârough fabric.â A new podcast miniseries will explore these scars, years after the attack. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division released dash cam video of the moments before Walter Scott was shot by officer Michael Slager. Local NPR for the Cape, Coast & Islands 90.1 91.1 94.3. Capital Gazette | Feb 11, 2020 at 10:39 AM An 18-year-old man was shot in the torso during a “transaction” gone awry in the Cape St. Claire area … "[44] One of the letters thought to have been written by the suspect was published by other news sources. KAIT-TV reported that officers found the five victims at the American Legion building in Kennett following the report of the shooting before 12:30 a.m. Sunday. 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The Capital Gazette staff were also named as finalists for the Burl Osborne Award for Editorial Leadership - Small, and the Visual Journalism Award - Small. The Star-Gazette noted on Dec. 3, ... or did he go mad and provoke an Eskimo into shooting him? It follows San Felice and the rest of surviving staff in the two years following the shooting. San Felice worried that the shooting would barely register with the public, once it was no longer breaking news. Cape sends eight wrestlers to March 3 semifinals The Milford Buccaneers made big noise in the first of two days of the state wrestling tournament Feb. 27, with Emily Thode at 106 pounds becoming the first girl to win a match at the DIAA Individual State Tournament. When McKerrow learned the names of his coworkers who had been killed, he felt his life had irrevocably changed: "I had one of those momentsâand it wasn't the first time I'd had at that dayâwhere I could see the demarking line between my old life and my new life. Police said the shooting occurred around 6:40 a.m. on Park Circle in the Mobile Gardens Manufactured Home Community The effort to recruit medical students comes as the nation faces a s... urplus of distributed but unused vaccines, with about 20 million doses currently waiting to be administered. The attack fueled the staff's commitment to the paper. "[75], On July 2, Annapolis mayor Gavin Buckley announced that the city planned to hold a summer music festival that will act as a celebration of the freedom of the press and as a memorial for the journalists who were killed. On Thursday, June 28, police reported that Ramos sent letters to three people who had been involved in his defamation lawsuit, with a packet being received by The Capital's former attorney that included a letter addressed to Judge Moylan, who wrote the opinion upholding the dismissal of his defamation case. At least six pirate skeletons were discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod. [3], The newspaper published an article in 2011 about Ramos's being put on probation for harassing an acquaintance from high school through social media and email. These are attacks that have occurred on school property or related primarily to school issues or events. [17][18] The police reportedly had a one-minute response time, and interviewed survivors in the criminal investigations unit of the Anne Arundel County Police Department. [47] He later declined to lower US flags to half-staff, as is custom for mass shootings, despite requests from Annapolis mayor Gavin Buckley and the lowering of Maryland flags by the Governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan. The gunman, Jarrod Ramos, shot and killed five employees with a shotgun; two others were injured while trying to escape. Its offices were located at 888 Bestgate Road in Parole, an unincorporated area of Anne Arundel County just outside Annapolis (the place name assigned by the U.S. Gov. If Ramos is convicted, a second phase of the jury trial will determine if he is criminally responsible for his actions. [39], In 2012, Ramos sued The Capital in a defamation case he brought over a 2011 newspaper article reporting on his guilty plea for criminal harassment. He's driven into coal mines, watched as a town had to shutter its only public school after 100 years in operation, and, recently, he's followed the survivors of a mass shooting for two years to understand what happens after they fade from the news. [30][40] After multiple appeals from Ramos, the defamation case against the newspaper was dismissed in 2015 by Prince George's County circuit court judge Maureen M. Lamasney, who ruled in favor of the paper because their reporting was based on publicly available records and Ramos had produced no evidence that the article was inaccurate.