Capitol Gazette Shooter Planned to Blow up a Building, Studied Mass Shootings Before Annapolis Attack

Jarrod Ramos in Annapolis, Md., on June 28, 2018. Anne Arundel Police via AP

By Alex Mann From The Baltimore Sun

BALTIMORE—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.