Jarrod Ramos, the man who fatally shot five people in a 2018 attack on the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Ramos, 41, pleaded guilty in 2019 to all 23 charges (including five for first-degree murder), but pleaded not criminally responsible, which amounts to a declaration of insanity in Maryland.
A jury found last July that he was criminally responsible, according to our sister network NBC.
The shooting occurred on June 28, 2018. Mark Wilson / Getty Images / Getty Images
Ramos opened fire in the Annapolis newspaper office on June 28, 2018 with a pump-action shotgun
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The authorities called this an act of revenge, as it occurred after the newspaper published information about a case of criminal harassment that involved him.
In 2012, Ramos sued the newspaper and a reporter for defamation after the outlet reported that he had pleaded guilty to harassing a high school classmate.
A judge dismissed his claim.
A year later, in 2013, Capital Gazzete filed complaints of harassment against him, as Ramos had been complaining and badmouthing the newspaper on the Internet.
The police, however, stopped the investigations for fear that this would further provoke them
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