by jpitney | Jul 9, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists
A wreath was placed during a remembrance ceremony at the Guardians Of The First Amendment Memorial in Annapolis, in honor of the fallen journalists of the 2018 Capital Gazette shooting. June 28, 2022 (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)
by jpitney | Jan 24, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Vaccine
Del Bigtree, I survived a murderous mass shooting in my newsroom. My head nearly taken off by a shotgun blast, missing by an inch. Five Capital Gazette family members were killed around me. Your thoughts/words are disgusting/inhuman. No one should have such hate in...
by jpitney | Jul 17, 2021 | Crime, Journalism
CNN: A jury in Maryland on Thursday found that the man who killed five employees of the Capital Gazette newspaper is criminally responsible for the attack, rejecting his plea of insanity. Jarrod Ramos walked into the Capital Gazette offices in June 2018 and opened...
by jpitney | Jun 29, 2020 | Journalism
Two years ago Sunday, a gunman opened fire at the newsroom of The ‘Capital Gazette, killing five. Senator Ben Cardin remembered the event: