Newsroom gunman charged

Before he developed a long-running grudge against the Capital Gazette, the man who police say opened fire and killed five newspaper staffers directed his anger at a female high school classmate he barely knew.

Courthouses in Maryland are clogged with lawsuits brought by Jarrod Ramos against judges, reporters and lawyers he thought had wronged him.

In each case, they took the side of the classmate who said Ramos had harassed her relentlessly for a year.

Ramos, 38, of Laurel, Maryland has been charged with five counts of murder in Thursday’s shooting — one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in US history.

Court documents and social media posts written by Ramos paint a portrait of an angry, frustrated man fuming about how he’d been mistreated and maligned.

His aunt, Vielka Ramos, said her nephew was a highly intelligent, but solitary man.

After his grandmother died several years ago, Ramos stopped attending family gatherings, she said.

One of the biggest unanswered questions is what set Ramos off after a two-year period of silence against the Capital Gazette following a yearslong tirade against the newspaper and staff.

Investigators were reviewing his social media postings and searching his apartment.