We Now Have A Suspect ID And A CLEAR Motive In The Annapolis Newsroom Shooting

We now know WHY the man who opened fire in an Annapolis newsroom did what he did.

He was seeking revenge for a lost court case against the paper.

Absolutely disgusting.

According to the Washington Times:

The suspect in the fatal shooting attack on an Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper has been identified by NBC News as 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos.

As Hannah mentioned earlier, the dude somehow destroyed his own fingertips to try and avoid identification.

And while many of us feared this was politically motivated, we now know what motivated this heinous event. It was entirely personal:

Citing “three senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter,” the network reported that Mr. Ramos had a personal grudge against the Capital Gazette.

Mr. Ramossued the paper in 2012 for defamation but the case was dismissed by a judge.

It had been reported by the Capital Gazette in 2011 that Ramos had pleaded guilty to criminal harassment and he sued the paper for defamation.

Prince George’s Circuit Court Judge Maureen M. Lamasney dismissed the claim, at which Mr. Ramos represented himself, saying that the article was entirely based on public records and that Mr. Ramos had no factual rebuttal to it.

“A lawyer would almost certainly have told him not to proceed with this case,” the Maryland Court of Special Appeals wrote in a 2015 opinion upholding the dismissal. “It reveals a fundamental failure to understand what defamation law is and, more particularly, what defamation law is not.”

So the guy’s a complete and utter nut job.

My prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives because of this sick individual.