8:51
- ABC News
- June 29, 2018
Reporter tweets about active shooter scene
"A single shooter shot multiple people at my office."
8:51
Davis said that he was tweeting while waiting to be interviewed be police.
\"Can't say much more and don't want to declare anyone dead, but it's bad,\" he wrote.
In an account published on the Gazette's website, Davis described the scene as a \"war zone\" and said he and others were still hiding under their desks when the shooter stopped firing, adding that he doesn't know why the gunman stopped.
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Police then arrived at the scene and surrounded the shooter, he said.
\"I’m a police reporter. I write about this stuff — not necessarily to this extent, but shootings and death — all the time,\" Davis said. \"But as much as I’m going to try to articulate how traumatizing it is to be hiding under your desk, you don’t know until you’re there and you feel helpless.\"
ABC News has not been able to confirm Davis' employment with the paper, but the Baltimore Sun, which owns the Gazette, is using his reporting.
Capital Gazette Editor Jimmy DeButts tweeted that he is \"devastated\" and \"heartbroken\" over the shooting, praising his reporters and editors who \"give all they have every day\" and have a \"passion for telling stories from our community.\"
We are there in times of tragedy. We do our best to share the stories of people, those who make our community better. Please understand, we do all this to serve our community.
— Jimmy DeButts (@jd3217) June 28, 2018
We try to expose corruption. We fight to get access to public records & bring to light the inner workings of government despite major hurdles put in our way. The reporters & editors put their all into finding the truth. That is our mission. Will always be.
— Jimmy DeButts (@jd3217) June 28, 2018
Anthony Messenger, an intern for the newspaper, pleaded for help on Twitter, saying there was an active shooter in the building.
Active shooter 888 Bestgate please help us
— Anthony Messenger (@amesscapgaz) June 28, 2018
The Anne Arundel Police Department confirmed that an active shooter was at the building. Five are dead and two were injured.
A suspect is now in custody, police said.
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Pat Furgurson, another reporter for the Capital Gazette, was across the street when he received a call from the Baltimore Sun news desk, warning him not to return to the newsroom, he told ABC News.
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Employees were led from the building with their hands up and were brought across the street to a reunification center at the Annapolis Mall, where they were interviewed by authorities, Furgurson said.
Other offices in the building include offices for doctors, lawyers and an orthodontist, Furgurson said.
Bill Wagner, a Capital Gazette reporter who covers Navy sports, tweeted that he was safe.
To all my Twitter follows. I am okay. Thank God I was not at the office when this horrible incident occurred. However, many of my colleagues and friends are not okay and that is solely where my thoughts are right now. Please do not attempt to contact me via text or phone call.
— Bill Wagner (@BWagner_CapGaz) June 28, 2018
Tom Marquardt, the former Editor of the Capital Gazette for 35 years, told ABC News he still has a lot of friends who work there and that the \"suspense is really terrible\" as he waits for news on what happened to them.
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Marquardt said the newsroom is on the ground floor and described it as being a very open room.
Newspaper staff had dealt with threats in the past and have always been concerned about security, Marquardt said, adding that angry readers in the past threatened the newspaper over who it endorsed for an election.
Marquardt personally got threats, as did others, but they were mostly anonymous, he said.
More than four years ago, he said he had called the Anne Arundel Police Department to alert them to threats from the alleged gunman, identified by law enforcement sources to ABC News as Laurel, Maryland, resident Jarrod Ramos. The police department did not release his identity.
Police had investigated the threats and visited Ramos at his home but did not have enough to charge him, Marquardt said.
Five people were killed and several others were “gravely injured” in a shooting at the Capital Gazette office, according to police. A shooter is in custody. https://t.co/ZTw7BuaNAk
— Capital Gazette (@capgaznews) June 28, 2018
The Society of Professional Journalists released a statement saying it is \"deeply sadded\" by the reports of the shooting.
\"SPJ is deeply saddened by the reports from Annapolis, Maryland, that a shooter entered the Annapolis Capital Gazette building and shot several people. Our hearts go out to the victims and their family, friends and colleagues.\"https://t.co/tD90pbtvW3
— Society of Professional Journalists (@spj_tweets) June 28, 2018
One witness who works in the office across from the Gazette told WJLA that he saw the gunman pointing a \"big shotgun\" into the office, \"like he was targeting people.\"
\"I saw him move across the entrance of the office,\" the witness said.
The man said he only looked at the shooter \"for a second\" before he ducked his head behind the wall.
Police got to the scene within minutes and escorted them out of the building, the witness said.
When police arrived, they told the occupants of the office to \"hunker down,\" the witness
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