Jury finds gunman Jarrod Ramos criminally responsible for killing 5 in Capitol Gazette shooting

• Jarrod Ramos was found criminally responsible for the murder of 5 at the Capitol Gazette newspaper.
• A jury rejected a defense that Ramos was criminally insane at the time of the killing.
• Ramos went on a 2018 rampage following a yearslong vendetta against the newspaper.

A jury in Annapolis, Maryland, found Jarrod Ramos criminally responsible on Thursday for the murders of five people at the Capitol Gazette newspaper in 2018.

The jury rejected the mental-illness argument Jarrod Ramos's defense had put forward.

Ramos, 41, carried out a vendetta-fueled shooting spree at the newsroom, killing Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters.

Ramos had filed a lawsuit against the Gazette years earlier, accusing the paper of filing a defamatory article in which he reportedly harassed a woman for a year after contacting her on Facebook.

He became obsessed with the paper after that.

Ramos had pleaded guilty to 23 charges in 2019 related to the mass shooting at the newsroom, but his attorneys argued that he was insane at the time of the killings because of mental conditions and should be sentenced to a mental-health facility instead of prison, the Baltimore Sun reported.

Ramos had pleaded guilty to 23 charges in 2019 related to the mass shooting at the newsroom, but his attorneys argues he was insane at the time because of his mental conditions.

A jury rejected the argument and found him criminally responsible for the murders.

Prosecutors are seeking at least five life sentences without the possibility of parole, The Sun reported.