Criminal Law
A Jury Finds a Gunman Guilty of Killing 5 in the Capital Gazette Newspaper Shooting
A jury in Maryland has found a gunman criminally responsible for killing five employees of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md., in 2018, rejecting defense attorneys’ arguments that he was too mentally ill to be culpable in the attack.
The jury ruled that Jarrod Ramos, 41, was sane on June 28, 2018, when he shot his way through the small newsroom, killing four journalists and a sales assistant, according to the Capital Gazette.
Defense attorneys argued Ramos was too mentally ill and therefore was not responsible or capable of fully grasping his actions. He had pleaded guilty to 23 counts in the case but had pleaded not criminally responsible, Maryland’s version of an insanity plea.
