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Continued from Front have used a shotgun, ac- “I’m a police reporter. I
cording to a U.S. official write about this stuff — not
Authorities said they also who was briefed on the in- necessarily to this extent,
found what they believed vestigation but not autho- but shootings and death —
to be an explosive device. rized to discuss it publicly all the time,” he said. “But
Phil Davis, a reporter who and spoke on condition of as much as I’m going to try
covers courts and crime for anonymity. The gunman to articulate how trauma-
the paper, tweeted that was not carrying any iden- tizing it is to be hiding under
the gunman shot out the tification, authorities said. your desk, you don’t know
glass door to the office and “The shooter has not been until you’re there and you
fired into the newsroom, very forthcoming, so we feel helpless.”
sending people scrambling don’t have any informa- Davis told the paper he
for cover under desks. tion yet on motive,” Anne and others were still hiding
“A single shooter shot mul- Arundel County Executive under their desks when the
tiple people at my office, Steve Schuh said. “To my gunman stopped firing.
some of whom are dead,” knowledge, there was no “I don’t know why. I don’t
he wrote. verbal aspect to the inci- know why he stopped,” he Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley speaks with reporters near the
Davis added: “There is dent where he declared his said.q scene of a shooting in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, June 28, 2018.
nothing more terrifying motives or anything else, so Associated Press
than hearing multiple peo- at this point we just don’t
ple get shot while you’re know.”
under your desk and then Anne Arundel County Act-
hear the gunman reload.” ing Police Chief William
The attacker had mutilated Krampf confirmed five
his fingers in an apparent deaths and said several
attempt to make it harder others were gravely hurt.
to identify him, according At least two hospitals said
to a law enforcement of- they received three pa-
ficial who was not autho- tients, two of them with mi-
rized to discuss the investi- nor injuries not caused by
gation and spoke on con- gunshots.
dition of anonymity. Anoth- Police spokesman Lt. Ryan
er official who also spoke Frashure said officers raced
on condition of anonymity to the scene, arriving in 60
said investigators identified seconds, and took the gun-
the man using facial rec- man into custody without
ognition technology. an exchange of gunfire.
The shooting — which About 170 people in all
came amid months of ver- were evacuated from the
bal and online attacks on building as a multitude
the “fake news media” of police cars and other
from politicians and oth- emergency vehicles con-
ers from President Donald verged on the scene. Peo-
Trump on down— prompt- ple could be seen leav-
ed New York City police to ing the building with their
immediately tighten secu- hands up.
rity at news organizations in The newspaper is part of
the nation’s media capital. Capital Gazette Communi-
At the White House, spokes- cations, which also publish-
woman Lindsay Walters es the Maryland Gazette
said: “There is no room for and CapitalGazette.com.
violence, and we stick by In an interview with The
that. Violence is never tol- Capital Gazette’s online
erated in any form, no mat- site, Davis said it “was like a
ter whom it is against.” war zone” inside the news-
The gunman, whose name paper’s offices — a situa-
was not immediately re- tion that would be “hard to
leased, was believed to describe for a while.”