Reporter tweets account of shooting in his own newsroom: 'There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you're under your desk and then hear the gunman reload'

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• A reporter for the Capital Gazette, a newspaper based in Annapolis, Maryland, sent heartbreaking tweets about an active shooter situation at the paper's office on Thursday. 
• The reporter, Phil Davis, sent the tweets as he waited to be interviewed by police. 
• "There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you're under your desk and then hear the gunman reload," Davis said. 

A reporter for the Capital Gazette, a newspaper based in Annapolis, Maryland, sent heartbreaking tweets about an active shooter situation at the paper's office on Thursday. 

Phil Davis, a courts and crime reporter for the Gazette, began tweeting while he was waiting to be interviewed by police. 

"A single shooter shot multiple people at my office, some of whom are dead," Davis tweeted. 

"There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you're under your desk and then hear the gunman reload," he added. 

According to initial reports, there were multiple fatalities as a result of the shooting.

Read Davis's harrowing account of what occurred via the tweets below:

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