ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Newsrooms usually abuzz with approaching deadlines fell oddly silent as journalists nationwide paused to honor five people shot dead a week before inside a Maryland newspaper.
At a temporary office of the Capital Gazette, where the massacre occurred in Annapolis, Maryland, survivors gathered somberly at 2:33 p.m. Thursday. The Baltimore Sun reports that editor Rick Hutzell rang a bell and the staff lit candles for each person who died exactly seven days earlier.
Similar ceremonies were held at news outlets nationwide.
Executive editor Paige Mudd of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia says what happened in Annapolis is a reminder that journalists' work makes them vulnerable.
Jarrod Ramos with a longtime grudge against the Maryland newspaper has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder. He is being held without bail.
Letter Sent to Virginia Paper
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Police in Virginia say they believe Ramos has sent a letter to a Virginia newspaper.
Norfolk police spokesman Daniel Hudson says the letter arrived Thursday at The Virginian-Pilot. He says the sender is Jarrod Ramos.
Hudson said police gave the letter to the FBI. He declined to say whether it's addressed to anyone in particular.
In 2012, Ramos sued the Capital Gazette and a reporter there who now works at The Virginian-Pilot.
Police said Ramos sent several threatening letters the day of the shooting.
On Tuesday, prosecutor Jason Knight requested that the jail housing Ramos turn over "certified copies of all incoming or outgoing mail (front/back with envelope, delivered every two weeks)" for him.
