The 38-year-old gunman who carried out a deadly assault on a newspaper office in Annapolis had barricaded a back door hoping to “kill as many” as he could, authorities said Friday, confirming he pursued a years-long vendetta against the paper.
Police said the suspect — identified as Maryland resident Jarrod Ramos — used a legally purchased pump-action shotgun in an onslaught that left five employees of the Capital Gazette dead, and two others wounded on Thursday.
A judge ordered Ramos held without bail on five counts of first-degree murder, county prosecutor Wes Adams told a media briefing.
Adams said the decision was based partly on evidence suggesting a “coordinated attack” on the newspaper in Maryland’s historic capital, including “the barricading of a back door and the use of a tactical approach in hunting down and shooting the innocent victims.”
He “was there to kill as many people as he could kill,” said police chief Timothy…
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