Update 4: Anne Arundel County Acting Police Chief William Krampf said during a press briefing Thursday evening that at least five people were killed in today's shooting.
While the total number of wounded isn't yet known, Arminta Plater, a spokeswoman for a hospital near the newspaper, told the Associated Press that two patients had arrived there but she did not know their conditions.
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Update 3: A senior law enforcement official has confirmed to CBS News that four people were killed in the shooting, and they have a suspect in custody. The shooter is described as a white male in his 20s, who was armed with a shotgun and didn’t have identification on him. According to the police, there are no more shooters in the building.
Sources tell @CBSNews suspect in #Annapolis shooting is a white male in his 20s #breaking pic.twitter.com/HKxbOC6JAT
— WBZ | CBS Boston News (@wbz) June 28, 2018
Police said the building has been evacuated, and officers are continuing to search the building.
Anne Arundel County Police Department spokesman Lt. Ryan Frashure confirms there are injuries following this shooting, but won’t give numbers until the scene has been secured.
Frashure says they don’t believe this to be a “mass casualty” incident, but there were multiple injuries.
And an update from Lt. Ryan Frashure of the Annaopolis Police:
"At this point, we believe that it is one suspect, but again, that is one of the many things that we have to go through in our checklist to make sure that that building is secure. We need to make sure there is just one suspect."
"At this point, we believe that it is one suspect, but again, that is one of the many things that we have to go through in our checklist to make sure that that building is secure. We need to make sure there is just one suspect." Lt. Ryan Frashure of @AACOPD says pic.twitter.com/rL47ExF6Qh
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) June 28, 2018
Phil Davis, a Capital Gazette crime reporter who was there at the time of the shooting, said that multiple people had been shot, as others — himself included — hid under their desks. He said there was a lone male gunman.
“Gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees. Can’t say much more and don’t want to declare anyone dead, but it’s bad,” Davis wrote on Twitter as he waited to be interviewed by police. “There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you’re under your desk and then hear the gunman reload.”
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Update 2: ABC7's Brad Bell reports that multiple sources confirmed a shooter was taken into custody and that a shotgun was involved. A reunification center for families has been opened at the Lord & Taylor at Westfield Annapolis mall.
Some people have begun to point fingers at pundit Milo Yiannapolous, who told The Observer "I can’t wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight”
Yesterday, Milo Yiannapolous urged people to shoot and kill journalists. Today, multiple journalists at the Capital Gazette newspaper in #Annapolis were murdered.
— Nathan Lean (@nathanlean) June 28, 2018
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