Annapolis, MD — ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- “The shooter had a clear path and vision of the office.”
These are just a few of the chilling words shared in a Sunday article, taking readers even further into what happened inside the Capital Gazette newsroom last Thursday.
Len Lucchi tells WUSA 9 he went to school with the beloved sports writer who was killed: John McNamara.
Lucchi read some of the article out loud on Sunday. The headline read: Shouts. Shots. Silence.
"Dove under that desk as fast as I could and by the grace of God, he didn't look over there,' he said, 'I was curled up trying not to breath, trying not to make a sound and he shot people all around me," said Lucchi reading aloud.
"It makes me very sad and very angry,” said Lucchi after reading the words. “Stay with it. Support your paper,” he told WUSA 9.
Shantell Springfield read another section: "'It is a different feeling when it happens around you. You are helpless, you are hopeless.'”
“Just hearing that people have to experience this for no reason at all is just heartbreaking,” Springfield told WUSA 9.
The Sunday paper article included a graphic that shows how the suspect got into the building and even where he hid from police. Reporter Chase Cook says there were 11 people inside that newsroom last Thursday. Five were killed.
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'"One reporter who was near one of the editors killed said it sounded like labored breathing. Then he stopped,'” said Michael Edgecomb, who also read the article out loud.
"It had to be a just terrifying experience for the people that have been in there and there’s no reason they should have to that kind of a situation,” said Edgecomb after. “Again...it’s the states that have to do more. Not the federal government,” he added.
Parness didn't have an answer. He had stars – wooden stars with painted messages on them.
Parness hung these on a tree near one of two makeshift memorials outside of 888 Bestgate Rd. in Annapolis. One of the stars read, “Hope won’t die.” Parness says these stars were painted by children visiting the United Nations. Others were painted by Pulse and San Bernardino mass shooting survivors.
Parness tells WUSA 9 that he drove from New York to deliver the box of stars on Sunday evening.
"It's unfortunate that these happen, these tragedies tend to happen almost every day now, but we kind of want to make a statement that love is stronger than hate,” he said.
Many people were disturbed to learn from the Sunday article that threats and hateful messages had been sent in response to a Capital Gazette’s interview on CNN.
The article says staff writer Selene San Felice cursed on the national broadcast and said, “I’m going to need more than a couple of days of news coverage and some thoughts and prayers because our whole lives have been shattered.”
