5 People Dead in Shooting at Capital Gazette in Annapolis

NBC Washington ^ | 28 June 2018 | NBC Washington [DC] Staff

[COBOL2Java]

Five people have died and several others are hurt after a shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper building in Annapolis, Maryland, local and federal officials say.

The names of the dead were not released immediately. The suspected shooter is in custody, and authorities are questioning him, officials said at a news conference Thursday afternoon.

"I don't know what to say other than our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families, and we take comfort knowing that they are in God's embrace," Anne Arundel County Executive Steve Schuh said.

Injured victims are being treated at R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma in Baltimore and Anne Arundel Medical Center, the county executive said. Several are "gravely injured," Schuh said.

The shooter opened fire at 888 Bestgate Road, and the call for an active shooter came in at 2:34 p.m, Capt. Russell Davies with the Anne Arundel EMS confirmed to NBC News.

First responders arrived within 60 seconds, Gov. Larry Hogan said.

[Elsie]

A 39 year old white male has been positively identified through the use of facial recognition software as the shooter at a newspaper in Annapolis, authorities say.

Makes me wonder how many THOUSANDS of pictures the authorities have of MY face!

Most every stoplight has a camera pointed into the windshield.

[Elsie]

Even less quantifiable, but far more vexing, are the billions of images of unsuspecting citizens captured by

facial-recognition technology and stored in law enforcement and private-sector databases

over which our control is practically nonexistent

 

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/02/surveillance-watching-you/

[silverleaf]

I kinda figured in this small town many of us would know someone who was a victim, and I was right
Mourning tonight for a reporter who wrote articles about teens and their achievements. She thought it was important for the community to recognize the kids. Wendi Winters - thank you. You will be missed
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/bs-md-wendi-winters-20180628-story.html

[piasa]

He worked for the Bureau of Labor Statistics - in computers.

[CJ Wolf]

Tater eyes grow better in the darkness. Soil on top. Water brings green sprouts.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I think they just wanted to know if it was an AR-15 so they could go on another anti-gun crusade.

[a little elbow grease]

..... agreed.

[a little elbow grease]

"Makes me wonder how many THOUSANDS of pictures the authorities have of MY face!

Most every stoplight has a camera pointed into the windshield."

__________________

Try not to worry about it. Your worrying does nothing to help you.

[newfreep]

Jun 28 2018 17:19:24 (EST)

[Peter ODonnell]

The pattern I see is this — mass killings by persons with mental health issues, full court press by both sides of the political divide trying to place the perp in their own ideological narrative kill zone, eventual realization that it was just some loser off his meds.

You would think people would learn and refrain from moving the pawns all over the chessboard.

And no, I’m not with the deep state myself.

[Elsie]

I don’t worry; I wonder.

[hal ogen]

I “lived” for 30+ years in rockville. Being outnumbered by lunatics (retired LIB civil “servants”, ferals , illegal aliens, politicians and their ilk, homeless losers, active civil “servants” and other assorted LIB debris) far outweighed any advantages of that state. All I can say now is : Free at last! Thank GOD free at last!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Trump leaning paper per Tom Sullivan.

Thanks partyrepub.

[SunkenCiv]

Well put.

[SunkenCiv]

mason-dixon

Thanks mason-dixon.

[partyrepub]

I believe I was mistaken. I apologize.

[GOPJ]

Prayers for the journalists and families of all traumatized by the killer... May God help heal the pain.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! No harm, no foul.

[HKMk23]

“Most every stoplight has a camera pointed into the windshield.”

Those cameras are still-shot cameras rigged to sensors and strobes so that they only take a photo when a vehicle transgresses the intersection against a red light. Typically, at least two cameras capture single frames to get vehicle license plate and driver’s face.

Here’s what’s important, though, in terms of everyone’s privacy: Red light cameras are not always-on video cameras; that type of camera would yield image frames at too low of a resolution to be useful. Even full HD video has difficulty clearly capturing a moving object the size of your head from a distance of fifty feet. The combination of video frame rate, and motion blur (stationary camera v. moving subject) — I see full HD home security video from time-to-time, and if the camera is mounted on the front of a house, and the subject is at the curb, even just 30 feet away their facial features are muddied unless they actually STOP still for a moment facing the camera. That is absolutely never going to happen if you’re blowing through an intersection at 35mph.

IOW, unless you are planning to run red lights as an avocation, don’t even bat an eyelash at the presence of those red light cameras.

[MeganC]

“Trump leaning paper per Tom Sullivan.”

Judging from the comments one of their reporters made about Trump I think Sullivan is misinformed.