{"id":100554,"date":"2018-06-28T19:21:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=100554"},"modified":"2018-06-28T22:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T02:30:36","slug":"annapolis-shooter-a-white-male-in-his-20s-who-tried-to-obscure-his-fingerprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=100554","title":{"rendered":"Annapolis Shooter: A white male in his 30s who tried to obscure his fingerprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>5 Killed In Annapolis Newsroom Shooting, Gunman Identified Using Facial Recognition<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Five people have been killed and several others were &#8220;gravely injured&#8221; during a shooting Thursday afternoon in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette, according to Anne Arundel County Acting Police Chief William Krampf.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018.06.28shooting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100556\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018.06.28shooting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018.06.28shooting.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018.06.28shooting-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Krampf said during a press briefing Thursday evening that the shooter is in custody, but declined to offer any information about his identity, or the type of weapon used. The shooter was described as a &#8220;white male in his 20s&#8221; and several media outlets report that he used a shotgun during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>An official told The Associated Press the shooting suspect is not cooperating with investigators, and as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Tom_Winter\/status\/1012461210304950273?s=15\">AP adds<\/a>, the shooter &#8220;found a way to obscure his fingerprints&#8221; &#8211; while the AP adds he\u00a0<strong>mutilated his fingerprints<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Law enforcement official: Suspect in newspaper shooting mutilated fingers in possible effort to thwart identification.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1012470472695599106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1012471639693512705\">according to NBC\u00a0<\/a>the suspect has been identified via use of facial recognition technology, and local authorities are executing search warrant on his home.<\/p>\n<p>While thousands of people offered their condolences on Twitter, Phil Davis, a Capital Gazette crime reporter who was in the building at the time of the shooting, offered some of the first information about the shooting in a series of tweets sent while he was waiting to be interviewed by police.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018.06.28shootingtwo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100555\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018.06.28shootingtwo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018.06.28shootingtwo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018.06.28shootingtwo-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees. Can\u2019t say much more and don\u2019t want to declare anyone dead, but it\u2019s bad,&#8221; Davis wrote on Twitter as he waited to be interviewed by police. &#8220;There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you\u2019re under your desk and then hear the gunman reload.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-28\/multiple-fatalities-reported-mass-shooting-annapolis-newsroom\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-28\/multiple-fatalities-reported-mass-shooting-annapolis-newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Killed In Annapolis Newsroom Shooting, Gunman Identified Using Facial Recognition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}