NBC: Police Name Annapolis Shooting Suspect as Jarrod Ramos

[sandensea]

Source: The Daily Beast

NBC News reported Thursday evening that law enforcement have identified Jarrod Ramos, 38, as the suspected gunman in a deadly shooting at the Capital Gazette's newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland.

According to NBC, Ramos sued the newspaper in 2012 for defamation, but the case was tossed by a judge.



Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jarrod-ramos-annapolis-shooting-capital-gazette-newsroom-maryland

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Ramos had a longstanding legal dispute with the news daily. While no political motives were apparent, a September 16, 2015, tweet defended then-candidate Donald Trump from a Capital Gazette editorial labeling him "unqualified."

"Referring to Donald Trump as 'unqualified' could end badly (again)," Ramos tweeted at the time.

Link to tweet

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Conflicted motives

was it about Trump, or was it about not getting his day in court?

either way, he seems a vindictive soul

[sandensea]

2. It seems to have been about the defamation suit.

Nevertheless, he also seems to have been a Trump supporter.

[catrose]

7. What a surprise

They won. Why are they killing us? I guess they were fighting for the right to do so.

[Igel]

9. They won.

He lost.

They are as monolithic as we are.

[sandensea]

14. Absolutely. Intolerance is one the GOPee's salient features.

And as you know, it's a fine line between intolerance and outright violence.

[catrose]

18. Yeah. I'd laugh but I'm crying.

[Judi Lynn]

22. So true! Thanks. n/t

[sandensea]

29. And the fact that the victims were newspaper staff, raises a very worrisome prospect:

That journalists and news staff critical of Cheetolini will increasingly be targets of violence. God forbid.

As someone whose loved one was a renowned journalist, Judi, I imagine these news must have been especially unsettling.

What a horrible day.

[musette_sf]

25. Dude loses his case 8 YEARS AGO...

and he decides to go full Rambo NOW???

Can't imagine WHAT could have changed since then to make him think that this was a good idea NOW!!

https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/before-annapolis-capital-gazette-shooting-milo-yiannopoulos-said-he-wanted-to-see-people-shoot-journalists.html

[lunasun]

26. +++Milo and trump gave him extra validation on his past anger and also called for action

[BigmanPigman]

3. Another RW nut job?

A white American male...gee, what a surprise! I thought we were told the brown people from shithole countries were our biggest threat. So glad the SCOTUS is protecting us from those criminal immigrants.

[sandensea]

5. And it's so good to see they can get assault weapons so easily.

Makes you feel safer just thinking about that.

[Igel]

11. Yes. Military grade assault weapons.

Or, as in this case, a shotgun.

Ask a Green Beret if they're properly equipped with shotguns. And only shotguns.

[jmowreader]

24. It depends on the mission

If you're going in to clean out a bunker, shotguns are exactly the weapons you want.

[BigmanPigman]

12. I couldn't tell a pea shooter from machine gun

but I think I heard it wasn't an automatic weapon and was a shotgun (like I said, I don't know the difference). If this means it wasn't a weapon that people want banned then how do people plan to control guns? ALL GUNS KILL! They are all designed and made and purchased to kill, not brush your teeth with or bake a better loaf of bread.

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES is on a Summer tour/road trip to get support for gun control and register voters. Check out the link and see if an event is coming to your town or if you want to donate, volunteer, etc.
https://marchforourlives.com/
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[mnhtnbb]

21. And a Trumpster. Spanky Shithole has blood on

his tiny little hands on this one.

[blue-wave]

28. Ummm

I hate to burst your bubble, but isn't Ramos a name of Spanish origin? That would make him Latino. He might be part Latino or he doesn't identify as such, but it appears as though he might have some Latino ancestry.

[BigmanPigman]

30. I bet he'd be the first one to deny his

ancestry or at least lie about it. That is what they all seem to do. Everyone else is an immigrant except for themselves somehow. Their logic is skewed.

[blue-wave]

31. Yup, I agree wholeheartedly

I know too many people who should not be tRumpettes for various reasons, including minorities and those who are or were part of oppressed groups. As my mother once told me "don't ever try to understand it, because you never will."

[BigmanPigman]

32. Your mom is a wise woman.

[sandensea]

33. Possibly. It could also be Portuguese.

One of the GOPee's dirty little secrets, though, is the effort they've made since the '70s to peel away white Hispanic voters from Democrats by using their old standby: dog-whistle racism.

Around one in four Latin Americans is white - usually descendants of Spaniards, Portuguese, or Italians. In Latin America, to be white is a real privilege. And once in the U.S., the thought of being lumped in with other Latinos can be painful and/or offensive.

Many, as a result, became Republicans: As a way to "distinguish" themselves from darker-skinned Latinos.

I should note that I don't know the least thing about this individual, and of course there are many exceptions to this rule.

Who knows what demons lurk in men's minds.

[BumRushDaShow]

37. We call it being "honorary white".

And yup, you see it significantly in South America.

Edit to add this (whole system of racial classification when intermixed) -

[ck4829]

38. I know a white guy (Canadian to boot) with a surname of Lopez

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Suing everybody. Last post 2016 except one 6 hrs ago against an Appeals Judge. . . nt

[sandensea]

8. It's a wonder these things don't happen more often.

When you think of all the people who don't get their way in legal disputes, plus the ridiculously easy access to assault weapons in this country, the fact that these things don't happen more frequently is a small miracle.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Looks like he is going to get bad press now.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. More blood on Trump's **tiny** hands

[Flaleftist]

13. A Trump supporter who criticized the paper for negative coverage of Trump.

I'm shocked!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. Wow. A berserk Trump supporter. I sure didn't see that coming.

Last edited Fri Jun 29, 2018, 10:06 AM - Edit history (2)

If the shooter's name is being reported correctly, here is an appellate court decision about his defamation suit against the paper. Sounds like a long-time awful and dangerous person. http://170.99.108.1/appellate/unreportedopinions/2015/2281s13.pdf

Link to tweet

{Edited: It's "berserk," not "bezerk." "Verzerk." "Berzerk." Whatever.}

[lunasun]

27. Woman he harassed told police he would be a shooter

Thomas Marquardt, who retired as The Capital’s publisher in 2012 and was named in Ramos’ defamation lawsuit, told the Los Angeles Times that Ramos, “waged a one-person attack on anything he could muster in court against the Capital. I said during that time, ‘This guy is crazy enough to come in and blow us all away.'”

Marquardt told the Times, “The theory back then was, ‘Let’s not infuriate him more than I have to. … The more you agitate this guy, the worse it’s gonna get.’ If it’s him, I’m gonna feel … responsible for this. I pray it’s not him.”

https://heavy.com/news/2018/06/jarrod-ramos/

[Scurrilous]

16. K&R

[oberliner]

17. The Trump tweet is 2015

The vast majority of the twitter feed is about his various grudges against this newspaper.

[Demsrule86]

35. The people involved with the dispute were gone...he posted tweets about how if they said

bad stuff about Trump, they would be sorry. I think I still have...posted down below but here it is again. Trump has called the press the enemy, it is on him.

Link to tweet

[machoneman]

19. He must be white. Know why? No middle name given.

Odd they always seem to miss this little factoid when it's a white boy, white supremacist, KKK member, Trump supporter, et al.

[7wo7rees]

20. Warren n/t

[dflprincess]

23. Lee Harvey Oswald

James Earl Ray
Mark David Chapman

[RhodeIslandOne]

36. That's an odd claim

What was Aaron Alexis’s middle name? I never heard it.

Generally the middle name is used of any mass shooter or serial killer to distinguish them from any other private citizen with the same first and last name.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

39. The classic middle name

NEWS OF THE WEIRD

By Chuck Shepherd
Sunday, December 25, 2005
....

THE CLASSIC MIDDLE NAME (ALL NEW FOR 2005!) Once again this year, as a public service, we release this crucial homicide data:

Charged with murder, awaiting trial: Darrell Wayne Maness, 19 (Wilmington, N.C.); Timothy Wayne Ebert, 39 (Cleveland, Tex.); John Wayne Blair, 49 (Sevier County, Tenn.); Derek Wayne Jackson, 18 (Norristown, Pa.); Nathaniel Wayne Hart, 34 (Austin, Tex.); Kenneth Wayne Keller, 42, (Denton County, Tex.); Ronald Wayne Lail, 43 (Burke County, N.C.); Timothy Wayne Condrey, 27 (Caroleen, N.C.); Roy Wayne Russell, 45 (Vancouver, Wash.); Jeremy Wayne Hopkins, 22 (Denton, Tex.); Reginald Wayne Thomas, 23 (Huntsville, Tex.); Matthew Wayne Almand, 18 (Melbourne, Fla.)

Convicted of murder, but found insane: Emmanuel Wayne Harris, 28 (Bisbee, Ariz.)

Sentenced for murder: Tyler Wayne Justice (Alice, Tex.); Douglas Wayne Pepper, 44 (Greensboro, N.C.)

Awaiting a retrial after a judge overturned his murder conviction: Donald Wayne Shipe, 37 (Winchester, Va.)

Committed suicide in a murder-suicide: Eric Wayne Jacobs, 27 (Castroville, Tex.); Michael Wayne Baxter, 30 (Edgewater, Md.)

Executed for murder : Dennis Wayne Bagwell, 41; Lonnie Wayne Pursley, 43; Melvin Wayne White, 55 (all from Huntsville, Tex., the state penitentiary)

Died of a drug overdose while serving two life terms for murder: Russell Wayne Wagner, 52 (Jessup, Md.) (He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery based on Army service in Vietnam. The son of Wagner's victims objected, prompting a congressional review. A 1997 law supposedly bars those convicted of capital crimes from being buried in a national cemetery.)

Final note: Police in New Scotland, N.Y., arrested Corianna Thompson, 45, in April for the murder of her mother, then released her last month without charges while they investigate "additional leads." Thompson's birth name was Corey Wayne Balashek. Before his sex change, he served nine years in prison for the 1981 strangulation of an Albany nurse. Authorities believe Thompson/Balashek is the first American, let alone the first middle-name-Wayne, to be arrested for murder in both genders.

Sources: Maness: Wilmington (N.C.) Star News, Jan. 19; Ebert: Houston Chronicle, Feb. 22; Blair: Knoxville News-Sentinel, April 29; Associated Press, May 28; Jackson: Philadelphia Inquirer, April 21; Hart: Austin American-Statesman, April 13, Nov. 3; Keller: Dallas Morning News, Aug. 14; Lail: Charlotte Observer, Sept. 22; Condrey: Daily Courier (Forest City, N.C.), Sept. 22; Russell: The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.), Nov. 19; Hopkins: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Nov. 22; Thomas: Houston Chronicle, Nov. 24; Almand: Orlando Sentinel, Nov. 30; Shipe: Winchester Star, May 4, Nov. 8; Harris: Associated Press, Jan. 20; Justice: Alice (Tex.) Echo-News Journal, Sept. 14; Pepper: Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record, Nov. 8; Bagwell: Associated Press, Feb. 17; Pursley: Associated Press, May 3; White: Associated Press, Nov. 3; Jacobs: Houston Chronicle, April 14; Baxter: The Capital (Annapolis), Oct. 8; Wagner: Washington Post, Aug. 5, 10; Thompson/Balashek: Albany (N.Y.) Times Union, April 11, Nov. 18

Chuck Shepherd writes the weekly syndicated column News of the Weird, which appears locally in Washington City Paper. His e-mail address [e-mail].

[kudzu22]

42. John Wayne Gacy

[Demsrule86]

34. The first Trump martyr among the press...but I fear not the last.

Trump is a fucking monster.

Link to tweet

[Sunlei]

40. longstanding grudge against-paper.Look at that tweet, shooter paid attention to trumps words.

President Trump incites violence.

[Sunlei]

41. NOW, twitter suspends the shooters account. 3 yrs after shooter tweeted 'end badly' threat.