Woman was harassed for the author of the shooting in an American newspaper

A woman who was harassed by the man who attacked writing a newspaper in the United States last week, killing five people said Monday that she was living with the constant fear that one day he would find her and kill her.

In an interview on the "Today" show on NBC television, the woman, who asked to be identified simply as Lori, said that when she discovered what had happened passed in the newspaper The Capital Gazette "As soon as they said what had happened in the capital and that they could not identify the suspect, I took the phone and I said, "I know who he is," he said.

He knew that if he was conducting a massive attack, it would be against the capital, he said.

Jarrod Ramos 38 years old, was arrested shortly after the shooting and charged with five counts of murder

Police and prosecutors claim that his attack, for which he used smoke grenades and a shotgun, was motivated by revenge, after unsuccessfully pursuing the newspaper for defamation.

The lawsuit was born in a 2011 column entitled "Jarrod wants to be your friend", which detailed the case of harassment against Lori. Ramos contacted Lori by email in 2009, reminding her that they had gone to high school together.

At one point, she told me that she was writing to me because I was the only person to have been kind to her in high school, said Lori.

Although she was not remembered, Lori responded and both started exchanging emails every few days, until Ramos gets angry when she does not answer right away.

"It's there that I pulled back and said," What's going on here? Lori said:

Subsequently, Ramos became increasingly bellicose: he told him to kill himself and warned him that he would need an order

Lori finally contacted the police and Ramos eventually pleaded guilty in July 2011 to a crime of harassment.He avoided being imprisoned, but was sentenced to spend 18 months in prison. supervised probation.

Although Ramos directed his anger towards the newspaper and came to claim it, Lori felt vulnerable and feared that she would be able to appear at any time and do something to her.

I was coming home from work and I stopped with the car first. Make sure everything was fine, that my window was not broken, that my door was not ajar, he said.

"I was afraid of being able to appear anytime, anywhere … and kill me," he added. 19659004] The lawsuit against the newspaper was rejected in 2015, but Ramos continued to harass and threaten his employees on the Internet.