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On June 28, 2018, a gunman entered the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, and opened fire. John Patrick McNamara, 56, a sports writer who had worked at the paper for nearly 24 years, was one of five employees killed in what police described as a targeted attack. Colleagues remembered him as a versatile journalist with a sharp wit.

Authorities arrested Jarrod Ramos, 38 at the time, at the scene and charged him with five counts of first-degree murder. Ramos had a long-standing grudge against the paper stemming from a 2011 article about a criminal harassment case; he filed a defamation lawsuit in 2012 that was dismissed and that dismissal was upheld on appeal in 2015. Prosecutors said Ramos had sent threats to the newspaper in the months before the shooting.

If anyone knew John Patrick McNamara or has information about the events that morning, please share what you know.