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The man who admitted murdering five employees of the Capital Gazette newspaper nearly three years ago initially planned to blow up a building, then studied police response times to other mass shootings in hopes of eluding capture, according to reports made public in court on Wednesday.
BALTIMORE â Before, during and after the horrific murders, the Capital Gazette shooter left behind a series of clues about his motivation and his mental state, the prosecutionâs psychiatric expert testified Friday. The man who killed Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters harbored a grudge against the news organization for years before planning the attack and choosing a time, Dr. Gregory Saathoff said. The gunman conducted surveillance on a cold winter day and purchased a shotgun, smoke grenades and barricades. He racked up roughly $90,000 in cr...
Expert explains mental health report on newspaper gunman BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A key expert for prosecutors in the Capital Gazette shooting testified Friday that the gunman’s methodical planning both for the attack and for after it indicate he is legally sane and criminally responsible for killing five people at the newsroom in Maryland three years ago. Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist and a chief consultant for the FBI, testified at a pretrial hearing before the second phase of Ramos' trial, now set for late June before a j...
Psychiatrist's testimony limited in newspaper shooting case The jury sitting area, right, is spaced out and lined with plastic barriers to protect them from COVID-19 in a courtroom in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, Apri 22, 2021. A jury will decide whether Jarrod Ramos is criminally responsible for killing five people at the Capital Gazette newspaper. Lawyers held a pretrial hearing in the case Thursday. (AP Photo/Brian Witte) Thursday, April 22, 2021 6:00 PM EST By BRIAN WITTE, AP ANNAPOLS, Md. (AP) — A psychiatrist at a detenti...
The pandemic hit while the orchestra was in the middle of a search to find a new music director to succeed Anu Tali, who stepped down in 2018 after six years. Several of the seven conductors set to lead Masterworks concerts, the organization’s centerpiece programs, are returning from past seasons, including Marcelo Lehninger, who opens the season, JoAnn Falletta and Bramwell Tovey. Others, like Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra, and Stephen Mulligan, associate conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, were booked for last season but didn’t get to appear. “It’...