ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND — Five people are dead and many others injured after a man with a grudge targeted a newspaper office in Maryland.<br /><br />The Baltimore Sun reports that a suspect wielding a shotgun and smoke grenades shot through the glass doors of the Capital Gazette office around 2:40 p.m. on Thursday.<br /><br />According to one witness, he opened fire on several people, killing two women and three men, and injuring at least three others.<br /><br />Employees reportedly hid under their desks during the deadly incident and pleaded for help on social media.<br /><br />Police arrived within a minute of the shooting, surrounding the gunman and taking him into custody. Civilians were escorted out of the building soon after.<br /><br />The shooter was later identified as 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos, a local with a long-standing grudge against the Capital Gazette. He previously sued the paper for defamation, but lost after failing to prove that what the paper published about him was false.
