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Capital Gazette shooter Jarrod Ramos sentenced to 5 life terms

Anne Arundel County Judge Michael Wachs ordered the sentence for Jarrod Ramos on Tuesday.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Editor's Note: The video in this story is from July 15, 2021, when Jarrod Ramos was determined to be criminally responsible for the Capital Gazette shootings that left five people dead.

A judge has sentenced a man who killed five people at a newspaper to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole. 

Anne Arundel County Judge Michael Wachs ordered the sentence for Jarrod Ramos on Tuesday.

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In July, a jury found Ramos criminally responsible for killing Wendi Winters, John McNamera, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen and Rebecca Smith with a shotgun at the Capital Gazette’s office in June 2018. 

Ramos pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible to all 23 counts against him in 2019, using Maryland’s version of an insanity defense. The case was delayed several times before and during the coronavirus pandemic.

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