US: Capital Gazette gunman gets more than five life sentences

Prosecutor says Jarrod Ramos, who killed five people at newspaper in 2018, received maximum sentence under law.

A judge in the United States has sentenced the gunman who killed five people in a 2018 mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Anne Colt Leitess, state attorney for Anne Arundel County, on Tuesday announced the sentence against Jarrod Ramos, who earlier this year had been found guilty on five counts of first-degree murder, among other charges.

Leitess said Ramos received the maximum sentence under the law and lauded the victims’ family members who testified at the legal proceedings.