Gunman Found Criminally Responsible for Killing 5 at Paper

Gunman Found Criminally Responsible for Killing 5 at Paper
Montana Geimer, daughter of Wendi Winters, a community beat reporter who died in the Capital Gazette newsroom shooting, reacts during a press conference following a verdict in the trial of Jarrod W. Ramos in Annapolis, Md. on July 15, 2021. Julio Cortez/AP Photo
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ANNAPOLIS, Md.—A jury on Thursday found the gunman who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper criminally responsible for his actions, rejecting defense attorneys’ mental illness arguments.

The jury needed less than two hours to find that Jarrod Ramos could understand the criminality of his actions and conform his conduct to the requirements of the law when he attacked the Capital Gazette newsroom in 2018.