Photos show how a deadly mass shooting unfolded at a local newspaper in Maryland
Phil Davis, a reporter with the Capital Gazette, tweeted that a gunman "shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees."
Police officers responded to the incident within 60 seconds, law-enforcement officials said.
The suspect, a white male man believed to be in his late 30s, was taken into custody by law-enforcement officials.
The suspect was found hiding under a desk and surrendered, according to law-enforcement officials.
A "long gun" was found nearby the suspect and smoke bombs or flash bangs were found in his backpack, a law-enforcement official told CBS News.
The suspect reportedly refused to cooperate with law-enforcement officials.
The suspected gunman reportedly had no identification on his person when police took him into custody.
In the process of trying to identify him, police discovered he had mutilated his fingertips in an attempt to stall investigators, according to The Associated Press and CBS News.
Police were eventually able to identify the suspect using facial-recognition technology, according to multiple news reports.
Following the shooting, the NYPD sent uniformed personnel to stand guard at several major news organizations "out of an abundance of caution."
We are monitoring the reports from #Annapolis and have deployed counterterrorism teams to media organizations around New York City. These deployments are not based on specific threat information, but rather a standard practice out of an abundance of caution. @NYPDCT pic.twitter.com/lHTL5gjvRf
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) June 28, 2018New York City Police Department officers stand outside the headquarters of The New York Times, June 28, 2018 in New York City.
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