July 9th, 2018 by WCBC Radio
WTOP reports Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said his administration is looking into why a series of threats over several years didn’t trigger a stronger response before the suspected Capital Gazette gunman opened fire on an Annapolis newsroom last month. Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, has been charged with five counts of murder in what police have called a “targeted attack” on the Capital Gazette newsroom on June 28. Police have said Ramos carried out a years-long vendetta against the paper stemming from its reporting on his 2011 guilty plea for harassing a former high-school classmate. Hogan said Maryland’s new “red flag” law, which goes into effect in October, might have allowed law enforcement officials to go to court and seek to temporarily restrict Ramos from having a gun. Police have said the shotgun Ramos used in the attack was legally purchased. The Governor says Maryland has stringent gun control measures already in place with new legislation being considered as well…
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