Stalker Shoots And Kills 5 People At The Annapolis Capital Gazette Newspaper In Maryland Over Articles On His Crimes

Stalker Shoots And Kills 5 People At The Annapolis Capital Gazette Newspaper In Maryland Over Articles On His Crimes

June 28. 2018

Jarrod W. Ramos

39-year-old Jarrod W. Ramos, a former federal government employee, shot and killed five people at the Annapolis Capital Gazette newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland. The deceased victims are Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, Wendi Winters, Rebecca Smith and John McNamara. Several other people at the newspaper were "gravely injured."

The newspaper ran a story on Ramos, regarding his acts of criminal harassment. Ramos was arrested and prosecuted in criminal court for bombarding a woman on Facebook with disturbing messages over the course of several months. As is standard behavior with psychopathic stalkers, Ramos began with compliments, then it quickly devolved into sending her insults and death threats.

Ramos claimed the two knew each other from high school, but the victim maintained they had never met. Ramos saw the victim and became obsessed with her from the time they were in high school and carried the obsessive fixation over into adulthood. The sick fixation has been going on for the past 20-years, with Ramos acting as though they were in a relationship, which never happened. There was no relationship.

As with most stalkers who act under strange delusions, they convince themselves that they are in a relationship with the victim, who often does not even know them. It is all one sided. How can you be in a relationship with someone you have never met and do not know, who never agreed to date you. Then, stalkers become angry at the victim for ignoring them or dating others, because in the mind of the stalker, they have deluded themselves into thinking they are dating the person, who is a victim of their madness. Stalking is unquestionably a serious mental illness.

Stalkers are insane. They stalk and terrorize their victims for years. The stalking often continues until they are imprisoned by police or shot and killed by authorities or the unwilling victim of their insane, relentless pursuit, during a confrontation forced by the stalker.

Psychiatrists realize how far removed from reality stalkers are and the threat it poses to victims. However, sometimes courts do not realize how mentally disturbed stalkers are and the lengths they go to in stalking and abusing victims until it's too late (the victim is murdered). Due to the fact stalkers are so irrational, there is no reasoning with them. You can only lock them up for public safety.

In Ramos' case it worked out for the victim, as police and prosecutors were able to arrest and convict him. The sad part of bringing him to justice is Ramos lashed out at the Capital Gazette, which ended in the murder of 5-people today. This is why I have advocated stalkers being indefinitely sent to mental asylums. Countless cases have shown stalkers are criminally insane and refuse to stop engaging in unlawful behavior.

The criminal case for stalking and harassment was not going in Ramos' favor, due to all the time stamped, digital evidence against him, from bombarding the victim with crazy comments and threatening messages on social networking. Ramos' conduct created a mountain of digital evidence on social networking that prosecutors used against him.

Stalkers lack impulse control and do any foolish thing that comes to their minds, not thinking of the consequences. They issue death threats over the internet, not thinking that it can be traced right back to them and used as evidence in their prosecution, leading to imprisonment. Ramos pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment.

The Capital Gazette did what every news organization in the world does, they report on local and world news. As it was a local news story, the Capital Gazette covered Ramos' case and he became angry that his criminal misconduct was published in the newspaper. Ramos then began targeting the Capital Gazette like a stalker.

Ramos bombarded them with messages. He posted many nasty comments about the newspaper on social networking, particularly journalist, Eric Hartley, who covered his case in the newspaper. He even made Hartley his avatar on social networking. Stalkers often mimic their victims like mindless sponges and try to become them, in a twisted love hate scenario. Once again, stalking is a serious mental disorder

Ramos also sued the newspaper. However, the Capital Gazette had not defame him in print. The Capital Gazette reported the facts - Ramos was arrested, then convicted for criminal harassment. That's their job. They are supposed to report on such criminal behavior. If you don't want bad coverage in the newspaper as a criminal, do not break the law.

STORY SOURCE

Five dead in 'targeted attack' at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, police say

A lone gunman blasted his way into the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis with a shotgun Thursday, killing five people dead and injuring two others, authorities said. Journalists dove under their desks and pleaded for help on social media. One reporter described the scene a “war zone.” A photographer said he jumped over a dead colleague and fled for his life.

The victims were identified as Rob Hiaasen, 59, a former feature writer for The Baltimore Sun who joined the Capital Gazette in 2010 as assistant editor and columnist; Wendi Winters, 65, a community correspondent who headed special publications; Gerald Fischman, 61, the editorial page editor; John McNamara, 56, a staff writer who covered high school, college and professional sports for decades; and Rebecca Smith, 34, a sales assistant hired in November.

Police took a suspect into custody soon after the shootings. He was identified as Jarrod W. Ramos, a 38-year-old Laurel man with a longstanding grudge against the paper. “This was a targeted attack on the Capital Gazette,” said Anne Arundel County Deputy Police Chief William Krampf. “This person was prepared today to come in. He was prepared to shoot people.”

Local, state and federal law enforcement officials cordoned off the Laurel apartment complex listed as the address for Ramos, whose dispute with the Capital began in July 2011 when a columnist at the paper covered a criminal harassment case against him. In 2012, Ramos brought a defamation suit against the columnist and the paper’s former editor and publisher, but Maryland’s second-highest court upheld in 2015 a ruling in favor of the Capital and a former reporter who were accused by Ramos of defamation.

Police said the suspect, who was taken into custody without any shots being fired by officers, had used “smoke grenades” in the building, located at 888 Bestgate Road. About 170 people were inside at the time of the shooting, they said...

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