On June 28, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at the offices of The Capital Gazette, an Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper. The gunman killed five employees with a 12-gauge Mossberg 500 pump-action shotgun and injured two others as they tried to escape. The gunman had a contentious history with the paper and had previously sued them.
The dead were:
• Gerald Fischman (61 years old)
• Rob Hiaasen (59)
• John McNamara (56)
• Rebecca Smith (34)
• Wendi Winters (65)