Capital Gazette Publishes The Day After Deadly Shooting Takes Five Of Their Own… And It’s Heartbreaking
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June 29, 2018This Is So STUPID, Even CHRIS CUOMO Calls Gillibrand Out On Her Flat-Out LIE
June 29, 2018The Capital Gazette went through unspeakable tragedy yesterday when a deranged man shot and killed 5 of their staffers.
Details have emerged that the man was enacting some sort of twisted revenge for a failed lawsuit against the paper.
A reporter promised this would not stop them:
I can tell you this: We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow.
— Chase Cook (@chaseacook) June 28, 2018
That takes tremendous courage. I applaud them for it.
As promised, the paper is out:
…Wow. I can’t even imagine. I really can’t.
But there’s ONE page that was particularly heartbreaking: Opinions… which was left entirely blank other than one sentence: “Today, we are speechless.”
Ooomph. Right to the gut.
The names of the five victims — Rebecca Smith, John McNamara, Gerald Fischman, Robert Hiaasen, and Wendi Winters — were listed below a sentence explaining that the page was “intentionally left blank” to “commemorate” the victims of Thursday’s shooting.
Beneath the list of the victims was the following note:
“Tomorrow this page will return to its steady purpose of offering our readers informed opinion about the world around them, that they might be better citizens.”
“[Capital Gazette] reporters [and] editors give all they have every day,” Capital editor Jimmy DeButts wrote on Twitter, “There are no 40 hour weeks, no big paydays – just a passion for telling stories from our [community]. Capital Gazette reporters actually published a story on the shooting on their digital platform as details unfolded Thursday.
Ramos, who has had a long-standing grudge against the Annapolis paper, was arrested and charged with five counts of first-degree murder, according to the Baltimore Sun, which owns the Capital Gazette.
Phil Davis, a Capital Gazette crime reporter, told the Baltimore Sun that the shooting “was like a war zone,” a horrific scene that would be “hard to describe for a while.”
Our thoughts and prayers are with those who were affected by this truly heinous crime.
