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Remembering the victims of the Capital Gazette attack
This Friday, June 28, marks six years since a man armed with a shotgun entered the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, and killed four journalists and a newsroom employee. It was the deadliest single attack on journalists in U.S. history; the gunman was later sentenced in 2021 to six life sentences plus 345 years in prison, all to be served consecutively.
Last year, the families of the victims plus five survivors reached a settlement agreement with The Baltimore Sun and Tribune Publishing, the outlet’s parent companies, as part of two lawsuits. Phil Davis, a former crime reporter for the Gazette who survived the shooting, told Tracker Senior Reporter Stephanie Sugars that he discourages the idea that the end of the lawsuit means closure.
“Everyone wants closure, because closure is what makes everything easier to understand. It gives people a way to endnote things,” Davis said. “I hope people realize that it doesn’t create a new chapter for anyone.”
All journalists killed in or present for the attack are documented in the Tracker’s Assault category; damage to the building during the shooting is captured in the Equipment Damage category.
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