Jury Finds Killer Criminally Responsible For 2018 Newsroom Shooting
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Defense attorneys for Jarrod Ramos, who shot and killed five people in the Capital Gazette newsroom, argued he suffers from mental illness and shouldn't ...
A jury on Thursday found the gunman who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper criminally responsible, rejecting defense attorneys’ mental illness arguments. The jury of eight men and four women found that Jarrod Ramos could understand the criminality of his actions and conform his conduct to the requirements of law when he attacked the Capital Gazette newsroom in 2018. The jury’s finding means Ramos, 41, will be sentenced to prison, not a maximum-security mental health facility. Prosecutors are seeking five life sentences without the possibility of parole.More Related News