Identify the alleged shooter with the help of modern face recognition technologies. This is a resident of Maryland, Jarrod Warren Ramos. The police believe that he attacked the office of the newspaper intentionally: according to investigators, the motive of the crime was revenge. "It was a purposeful attack on the Capital Gazette, This man was ready to shoot at people, his goal was to harm," said District spokesman Bill Crumpf. In 2012 г. Ramos accused the publication of libel. He filed a suit against the paper, but his suit was not considered. On the eve of the day an armed man broke into the office of the Capital Gazette and opened an indiscriminate fire to people. Five people died - employees of the newspaper's editorial office, almost 20 were injured of varying severity, all of them hospitalized. The police dismissed the version about the terrorist act almost immediately. The shooter surrendered to the police without a fight. He had in his backpack found a dummy of explosives, smoke bombs and svetoshumovye grenades.

However, Ramos refused to cooperate with the investigation.

His apartment was searched. The police excluded the version of the terrorist attack immediately. According to the custody order, it was a "local incident". However, immediately after the attack, security measures were strengthened in all major US cities. In particular, key facilities in New York and Washington. It was suggested that the shooter could be not alone. The police are looking for his possible accomplices, the editors are searched, the people from him ".