Capital Gazette
Even as the newsroom shooting was unfolding, newspaper staff members reported on it.
The mentor with a dry wit, the sports lover, the perfectionist editor, the "fantastic reporter," the upbeat newcomer. Memories of lost colleagues, friends and family.
The shooting in Annapolis, Maryland, left five dead and two injured. A former publisher recounts the suspect's earlier threats.
“You’ve affirmed the notion that the press is an alien, untrustworthy cohort,” he said.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
“There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you’re under your desk and then hear the gunman reload," he tweeted as an active shooting unfolded at the outlet’s Annapolis, Maryland, headquarters.
“This person was prepared today to come in, this person was prepared to shoot people,” a deputy police chief said.