Capital Gazette Shooting

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Police are responding to a report of an active shooter with victims at the Capital Gazette newspaper building in Annapolis, Maryland. CBS News reports at least four people are dead. Others were injured.

“Active Shooter: 888 Bestgate Road #Annapolis. Media staging area is 839 Bestgate Road,” Lt. Ryan Frashure of the Anne Arundel County Police Department tweeted. Frashure told reporters at a briefing that officers were doing every thing they could to secure the building and get people out safely. The police department then tweeted that the building has been evacuated

#update confirming active shooter at 888 Bestgate Road in Annapolis. Building evacuated. Officers continuing to search building. Relocation point is inside Lord and Taylor in the mall.
— Anne Arundel Police (@AACOPD) June 28, 2018

Anne Arundel County Sheriff Ron Bateman told Fox News there are multiple people dead at the scene and the shooter is in custody. A motive for the shooting is not yet known and the suspect has not been identified.
This is a developing story and will be updated. Here is what we know so far:

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1. An Intern Tweeted ‘Active Shooter … Please Help Us’

Active shooter 888 Bestgate please help us
— Anthony Messenger (@amesscapgaz) June 28, 2018

An intern at the newspaper, Anthony Messenger, tweeted, “Active shooter 888 Bestgate please help us,” about 2:40 p.m. on Thursday.

Reporter Phil Davis confirmed to the Baltimore Sun, which owns the Capital Gazette, that there was a shooting and multiple people were shot. The newspaper building is in Anne Arundel County.
Davis, who covers courts and crimes for the news organization, tweeted, “A single shooter shot multiple people at my office, some of whom are dead.”

A single shooter shot multiple people at my office, some of whom are dead.
— Phil Davis (@PhilDavis_CG) June 28, 2018

Davis added, “Gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees. Can’t say much more and don’t want to declare anyone dead, but it’s bad. There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you’re under your desk and then hear the gunman reload.”
He said he is waiting to be interviewed by police.

Joshua McKerrow, a photojournalist for both the Baltimore Sun and the Capital Gazette, tweeted, “Massive police response to shooting in my newsroom in Annapolis,” along with photos from the scene:

Massive police response to shooting in my newsroom in Annapolis. @capgaznews pic.twitter.com/M1Bjwa0mMh
— Joshua McKerrow (@joshuamckerrow) June 28, 2018

“This is going to be a long, long, long investigation,” Anne Arundel Police Lieutenant Ryan Frashure told reporters.

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2. A Shotgun Was Reportedly Used & the Suspect Is in Custody

UPDATE: @ABC7Brad reporting that according to sources, a shotgun was involved and a suspect is in custody in Annapolis shooting.
— Nancy Chen (@NancyChenNews) June 28, 2018

WJLA-TV reporter Brad Bell is reporting that the suspect used a shotgun. A suspect is in custody, he reported.
“We’re doing the best we can,” Anne Arundel County Police Lieutenant Ryan Frashure told reporters. “We’re doing everything we can to get people out safe and we’re trying to minimize the casualties.” He said they wanted to make sure people are safe.

“And again, there’s a lot of factors that got into this, so there’s a lot of secondary things we have to look into also,” Frashure said at the press briefing. “Whether there are other shooters, there might be more than one, bombs, anything like that, so there’s a variety of things we have to go through.”

According to police scanner transmissions, police were searching for explosives.
CNN reports that the suspect was taken into custody alive.

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