Jury Finds Capital Gazette Shooter Criminally Responsible
Jurors rejected the gunman’s insanity defense, meaning he will spend life in prison instead of being committed to a maximum-security psychiatric hospital.
An Anne Arundel County official holds a copy of The Capital Gazette near the scene of a shooting at the newspaper s office in Annapolis, Md., on June 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (CN) A Maryland jury on Thursday found Capital Gazette shooter Jarrod Ramos criminally responsible for the 2018 killing of five journalists, rejecting defense attorneys’ claims that mental illnesses preventing him from understanding the criminality of his actions.
Ramos has already admitted to killing five Gazette staffers – Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters – but asserted an insanity defense.
Maryland jury finds gunman in Capital Gazette shooting criminally responsible and rejects his mental illness argument
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Killer of five at US newspaper ruled mentally competent to serve prison sentence 16 Jul 2021 / 08:06 H. (FILES) In this file photo The Capital Gazette of June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Maryland, announces the victims of the June 28 shooting at the media oulet s offices. – AFP
WASHINGTON: A man who pleaded guilty to killing five people at a Maryland newspaper but whose lawyer sought to have him ruled mentally incompetent was found sane by a court Thursday.
A jury said Jarrod Ramos, 41, could be held criminally competent for the June 28, 2018 shooting murder of five at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, condemning him to life in prison rather than in a mental institution.
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Montana Geimer, daughter of Wendi Winters, a community beat reporter who died in the Capital Gazette newsroom shooting, reacts during a press conference following a verdict in the trial of Jarrod W. Ramos, Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Annapolis, Md. The jury found the gunman who killed five people at the newspaper criminally responsible, rejecting defense attorneys mental illness arguments. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) July 16, 2021 - 12:12 PM
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) â Three years after a mass shooting left five dead at a Maryland newspaper, relief that the gunman has been found criminally responsible is tempered by lingering sorrow among residents of the stateâs picturesque capital who vividly recall the attack that shattered their community.
By Connor Spielmaker and Kay Jones, CNN
Updated 9:47 PM ET, Thu July 15, 2021
A makeshift memorial outside the office building housing The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, on July 1, 2018 (CNN)A jury in Maryland on Thursday found that the man who killed five employees of the Capital Gazette newspaper is criminally responsible for the attack, rejecting his plea of insanity.
Jarrod Ramos walked into the Capital Gazette offices in June 2018 and opened fire, killing five staffers. Two others were injured.
He had already pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible in October 2019 to 23 counts, including murder, setting up the trial where a jury would be asked to determine his mental state at the time of the shooting. In Maryland, the law allows for separate proceedings within a trial to determine guilt and mental competency if a defendant is using an insanity defense. The mental competency phase is where criminal responsibility is argued.
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