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Denton Record-Chronicle
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
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BRIEFLY
Police: Shooting suspect wrote of plans
ACROSS THE NATION
Miami
Photographer behind
Elian image dies at 71
Retired Associated Press
photojoumalist Alan Diaz,
whose photo of a terrified
6-year-old Cuban boy named
Elian Gonzalez earned him the
Pulitzer Prize, has died. He was
Diaz’s wife, Martha, died
nearly two years ago.
Diaz’s iconic image shows an
armed U.S. immigration agent
confronting the boy in the Little
Havana home where he lived
with relatives after being found
floating off the Florida coast.
“Alan Diaz captured, in his
iconic photographs, some of
the most important moments
of our generation — the bitter,
violent struggle over the fate of
a small Cuban boy named Elian
Gonzalez, the magnified eye of
a Florida election official trying
to make sense of hanging chads
and disputed ballots in the 2000
presidential election,” AP execu-
tive editor Sally Buzbee said.
— The Associated Press
paper’s journalists.
The defamation suit was
thrown out as groundless, and
he often railed against current
and former Capital staff in pro-
fanity-laced tweets. Police found
him hiding under a desk after
Thursday’s attack and jailed him
on five counts of first-degree
murder.
At a memorial service Mon-
day night for one of those killed,
editor Rob Hiassen, Marquardt
said he once slept with a base-
ball bat by his bed because he
was so worried about Ramos.
He also said that they
“stepped up security” at the
newspaper years ago, and post-
ed Ramos’ photo around the
office.
By David McFadden
Associated Press
BALTIMORE
A man
charged with gunning down five
people at a Maryland newspa-
per sent three letters on the day
of the attack, police said, includ-
ing one that said he was on his
way to the Capital Gazette news-
room with the aim “of killing ev-
ery person present.”
Sgt. Jacklyn Davis, a spokes-
woman for Anne Arundel Coun-
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Diaz’s daughter, Aillette Ro-
driguez-Diaz, confirmed that he
died Tuesday.
The cause of death wasn’t
immediately known.
“He was the king of the fam-
ily,” Rodriguez-Diaz said. “He
cared about all of his friends and
colleagues. His life was photog-
raphy and my mother.”
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ty police, said the letters were
received Monday. They were
mailed to an attorney for The
Capital newspaper, a retired
judge of the Maryland Court of
Special Appeals and a Baltimore
judge.
Susan Walsh/AP
The flag of the United States flies at half-staff over the
White House in Washington on Tuesday to honor the five
people killed in the Annapolis, Md., shooting at the Capital
Gazette newspaper.
The letter Jarrod Ramos sent
to the Annapolis newspaper’s
Baltimore-based lawyer was
written to resemble a legal mo-
tion for reconsideration of his
unsuccessful 2012 defamation
lawsuit against the paper, a col-
umnist and then-publisher Tom
Marquardt.
Marquardt shared a copy of
the letter with The Associated
Press.
“But then he went dormant
for about two years and we
thought the problem has been
solved. Apparently, it was just
building up steam,” he said.
The mourning in Annapolis
continued Tuesday, marked by
a lowering of U.S. flags to hon-
or the victims. President Don-
ald Trump ordered flags flown
at half-staff on federal property
through sunset.
Annapolis Mayor Gavin
Buckley said Monday that he
was told initially that his request
to lower the flags had been de-
nied. Trump has repeatedly
called journalists the “enemy of
the people.”
According to Buckley, the
White House said Tuesday that
Trump ordered the flags low-
ered as soon as he learned of the
mayor’s request.
Hiaasen was remembered
in stories, poems, prayers and
songs at the “celebration of fife”
ceremony Monday evening. He
was fatally shot last week at the
Capital Gazette along with col-
leagues Gerald Fischman, John
McNamara, Rebecca Smith and
Wendi Winters.
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as the one sent to Moylan.
A spokeswoman for Adams
did not immediately return a
query seeking comment about
the sealed document. Moy-
lan could not immediately be
reached for comment Wednes-
retired special appeals court
Judge Charles Moylan, who
ruled against Ramos in his def-
amation case. Ramos sued the
paper after pleading guilty to
harassing a high school class-
mate.
“If this is how the Maryland
Judiciary operates, the law now
means nothing,” Ramos wrote.
He quoted a description of the
purpose of a defamation suit,
saying it was intended for a
defamed person to “resort to
the courts for relief instead of
wreaking his own vengeance.”
“’That’ is how your judiciary
operates, you were too cowardly
to confront those lies, and this is
your receipt,” Ramos wrote.
He signed it under the chill-
ing statement: “I told you so.”
Below that, he wrote that he was
going to the newspaper’s office
“with the objective of killing ev-
ery person present.”
In a letter attached to what
appeared to be the faux court
filing, he also directly addressed
‘Welcome, Mr. Moylan, to
your unexpected legacy: YOU
should have died,” he wrote. He
signed it: “Friends forever, Jar-
rod W. Ramos.”
Ramos also sent a document
to Maryland’s highest court, and
it has been sealed at the request
of prosecutors.
Wes Adams, Anne Arun-
del County state’s attorney,
asked the Court of Appeals on
Wednesday to seal the pleading
that Ramos filed on the day of
the shooting.
In his motion to seal, Adams
wrote: “the pleading creates
direct evidence of petitioner’s
involvement” in the allegations
currently under investigation.
It was unclear whether the
sealed document was the same
day.
Douglas Colbert, a Univer-
sity of Maryland law professor,
described the letters as “very
powerful” evidence of intent that
the state will make full use of at
trial. Colbert said as long as it’s
established in court that Ramos
authored the letters, they will be
used to show his “planning and
deliberate actions” on the day of
the attack.
The apparent admissions
by the defendant will weaken a
defense lawyer’s strategy of sug-
gesting that he was “suffering
from a mental disease or defect”
that would impair his ability to
understand the consequences of
his actions, Colbert said.
Ramos, 38, has a well-docu-
mented history of harassing the
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