Jarrod Ramos, Capital Gazette Shooting

38-year-old Jarrod Ramos identified as suspect in #CapitalGazette shooting: @wjz

•Police say Ramos used shotgun & smoke grenades
•Ramos sued paper & employees in 2012 over article that accused him of stalking
•Suspect made threats on social media
•Suspect from Laurel, MD pic.twitter.com/9zauiYSNvI

— Rick Ritter (@RickRitterWJZ) June 29, 2018

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— Capital Gazette (@capgaznews) June 29, 2018

From The Capital Gazette:

A Laurel man with a long-standing grudge against The Capital is being held as the suspect in the deadly shooting Thursday at the Annapolis newspaper, according to law enforcement sources.

Police and federal agents gathered late Thursday outside the address of 38-year-old Jarrod W. Ramos. Rich McLaughlin, chief of the Laurel police department, said his officers were there as part of the investigation into the shooting at the newspaper, and other sources identified Ramos as the suspect.

In 2012, Ramos filed a defamation lawsuit against the paper and a columnist over a July 2011 article that covered a criminal harassment charge against him.

He brought the suit against then-columnist Eric Hartley, naming Capital Gazette Communications and Thomas Marquardt, the paper’s former editor and publisher, as defendants.

A Twitter page in Ramos’ name on Thursday featured Hartley’s picture as its avatar, and a banner image included photographs of Marquardt and The Capital’s former owner, Philip Merrill.

The page’s bio read: “Dear reader: I created this page to defend myself. Now I'm suing the s--- out of half of AA County and making corpses of corrupt careers and corporate entities.”

The account regularly commented on Anne Arundel County news and referred to a deadly shooting at the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in 2015.

The account had been dormant since January 2016. Then at 2:37 p.m. Thursday — moments before the Capital shooting — the account posted a message that read: “F--- you, leave me alone.”

Thank God police responded so quickly, thereby saving lives.

I hear the Leftists on CNN and MSNBC are blaming the president for the shooting.

Of course they are.

I think it's pretty clear where fault lies for this bloodshed. It's lies with Ramos.