WEB DESK
Five persons were killed in a shooting at the offices of the Capital Gazette, a daily newspaper published in Annapolis, a historic city an hour east of Washington last night.
Authorities said, the shooter, a male in his 20s, has been apprehended and being interrogated. For now, the shooting is being treated as a local incident and not one that involves terrorism.
Law enforcement in Baltimore and New York City deployed protective forces to major media outlets as a precaution.
President Donald Trump has been briefed on the shooting, White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said.
For a country that has grown numb to mass shootings, this was a new front. Schools have become a frequent target, with college students on down to kindergartners falling victim. A movie theater was shot up. Churches, too. But this was a rare attack on a news organization, one of the oldest in America, which dates its roots back to the 1700s and boasts on its website that it once fought the stamp tax that helped give rise to the American Revolution.