Saturday, 30 June 2018

Capital Gazette: US mass shooters and their history of violence towards women

Female classmate says gunman harassed her, matching pattern of attackers perpetrating violence against those close to them

A 38-year-old gunman shot through a sleepy newsroom’s glass door and kept unloading. He killed five people – four journalists and an advertising saleswoman. Two more were injured, and many more will be mentally scarred.

This week’s attack on the newspaper, the Capital Gazette, comes at a time when threats against American journalists are rising. But threats, harassment and stalking behaviour from the shooter, Jarrod Ramos, started years before – with a female high school classmate.

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