‘It’s Something That Haunts Me:’ Victims, Family Members Respond To Sentencing Of Capital Gazette Shooter

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) –Family members and survivors accidental justness has yet been served
two months aft his conviction. Tuesday, The Capital Gazette Shooter was sentenced to 5 consecutive beingness sentences without the anticipation of parole.

For those families and survivors, this sentencing comes aft 3 prolonged years.

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“I don’t deliberation there’s ever going to beryllium immoderate closure,” said photojournalist and subsister Paul Gillespie.

Paul Gillespie remembers the time of the onslaught similar it was yesterday.

“I mislaid 5 of my household members. I was astir killed myself. It’s thing that haunts me. Every day, I deliberation astir this,” said Gillespie.

Gillespie narrowly escaped the time a gunman stormed wrong the superior gazette newsroom and opened occurrence 3 years ago. Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters were killed.

“This is simply a lifelong symptom that we’re each carrying,” said the widow of John McNamara, Andrea Chamblee.

Tuesday, the ineligible proceedings each came to an extremity erstwhile the justice handed down the maximum penalty.
Five beingness sentences down bars without parole, a sixth condemnation for the attempted execution of Gillespie,
and an further 345 years.

“The justice is crystal wide that Jarrod Ramos should not beryllium allowed to locomotion retired of situation ever,“ said Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess.

Inside the courtroom, survivors and victims talked astir however that time changed their lives forever.

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Reporter Selene San Felice says she hid nether a table during the 2018 shooting and yet escaped.

Tuesday, she came look to look with the shooter.

“It meant a batch to maine to beryllium capable to archer him to his look that helium failed,” said San Felice.

The gunman pleaded blameworthy successful 2019. His defence argued helium was not mentally unchangeable erstwhile helium carried retired the onslaught but prosecutors struck that down, saying helium methodically planned it aft the paper wrote a communicative astir him.

On the time of the massacre, they accidental helium locked the doors truthful victims couldn’t escape.

“It brings america solace that the idiosyncratic that took her from america volition ne'er respire state again,” said Montana Winters Geimer, the girl of Wendi Winters.

A brazen enactment that near a scar connected survivors and the families of the 5 victims and though the proceedings whitethorn beryllium over, the symptom volition ne'er fade.

“I americium blessed and relieved to accidental that it’s yet clip that I tin statesman the process of trying to heal from everything going on,” said Cindi Rittenour, the sister of Rebecca Smith.

“We ran retired of clip with our mother. She’s gone, she was taken from us. Going guardant each azygous time volition consciousness her absence,” said Winter Geimer.

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The States Attorney said the gunman is expected to instantly beryllium sent to situation wherever helium volition beryllium nether 23 hours of lockdown a day.