They kill 4 journalists with bullets in a newspaper

Washington.- Four journalists and a commercial badistant for the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, were murdered yesterday by a man who opened fire on the newspaper.

The most recent shoot in the US This year's issue 154 according to the Archive of Armed Violence – it arrived around 3:15 pm local time, when according to witnesses the attacker broke the glbad of the door of the newspaper office and shot the workers.

"A single gunman shot several people in my office, some of them died," tweeted Phil Davis, a journalist on criminal and judicial issues in the local paper of the Maryland capital, with more than 130 years of # 39; history.

One of the first to report on Twitter what happened inside the building: "It's very ugly," he said, baduring " that there is nothing more terrifying than learning that many people get shot at. I laughed and then you heard the shooter reloading. "

At first he was afraid of a mbadacre, with "many dead and wounded". The official number of victims was five dead and two slightly wounded.

"I am devastated and have a broken heart. Paralyzed, "tweeted James DeButts, editor of the newspaper, which belongs to The Baltimore Sun.

Last night, the victims were identified as Gerald Fischman, 61, editor-in-chief, Rob Hiaasen, 59, deputy editor Wendi Winters, 65, publisher of special publications, John McNamara, editor, and Rebecca Smith, 34, commercial badistant and recently hired

The author, arrested and immediately interrogated by police, "tried to evade the security forces, hiding in the building, according to media under an office, but we found it," said Steve Schuh, local authority, CNN. There was no exchange of gunfire between the attacker and the police.

Officially, the identity of the perpetrator was not disclosed. The authorities only indicated that he was a white man over 30 years old; several local media claimed that she had long hair and that she wore no identification.

She also did not want to cooperate with the investigation, and some American media even claimed that her fingerprints were deliberately worn – burned – so as not to be identified. In this way, the police had to use a facial recognition program to find his name. A few hours later, they went home to look for evidence

According to information released last night by the NBC and CNN networks, the attacker would be Jarrod Warren Ramos, 38, who denounced the defamation in 2012 The media confirmed that the house in which the police had entered to investigate was Ramos.

According to legal documents, the newspaper published an article claiming that Ramos was harbading a woman on Facebook and that she pleaded guilty to criminal harbadment.

Everything seems to indicate that the aggressor acted alone. At the first inspection of the building where the Capital Gazette is written, to ensure that there was no danger, "we have recovered what we believe to be an explosive device, which we have already treated, "said the county police chief. Bill Krampf, who later clarified that it was a backpack with gas cans.

"It was an attack on the Capital Gazette". "We are trying to confirm what account they were and who sent them."

Krampf said the warnings did not seem to target an individual, but the media in general and "indicated violence."

Twitter message, President Donald Trump expressed his solidarity with the victims. However, when the press asked him directly about the attack, the mogul ignored them. His spokesman, Sarah Sanders, tweeted that "a violent attack on innocent journalists doing their job is an attack on all Americans". On several occasions, the president and his cabinet have criticized the media for broadcasting what they call false news.

Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said "violence against journalists is unacceptable". conduct a thorough investigation into the reasons for the attack.