Maryland newspaper gunman Jarrod Ramos gets more than 5 life sentences
CTV
A man who killed five people at a newspaper in Maryland was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Anne Arundel County Judge Michael Wachs ordered the sentence for Jarrod Ramos, whom a jury previously found 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 had pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible to all 23 counts against him in 2019, using Maryland's version of an insanity defence. The case was delayed several times before and during the coronavirus pandemic.
Prior to the sentencing, survivors of the shooting and relatives of the five victims who died in the attack described the pain and loss they have experienced.
Montana Winters Geimer, daughter of shooting victim Wendi Winters, testified how her mother "woke up one morning, went to work and never came back."
