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Luke Broadwater and Ian Duncan
The Baltimore Sun
Jarrod Warren Ramos swore a legal oath in court documents to kill a writer for The Capital newspaper, whose staff had long endured his violent rants. A lawyer warned a judge of Ramos violent fetishes. And he was convicted of harassing a woman who successfully placed three restraining orders against him.
Yet the 38-year-old Laurel man accused of gunning down five employees of the Annapolis newspaper Thursday after barricading the exit door as part of a pre-planned attack legally purchased the pump-action shotgun he allegedly used in the rampage, authorities said Friday.
Brennan McCarthy, the lawyer who represented the woman Ramos harassed, said he knew the accused gunman was dangerous and tried to warn others.
It was very obvious to me very early that this was a person who was malignant, McCarthy said. He felt that he was at war. He was at war with The Capital. He was at war with my client. He was at war with me. He was at war with my family. I was very, very scared for my family for years because of this individual ...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ramos-charges-20180629-story.html
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)USA TODAY NETWORK
William Cummings, USA TODAY
Brennan McCarthy spent years staring out the window, expecting one day to see Jarrod Ramos coming for him ...
"Of the thousands of people Ive dealt with in court, this guy stuck," McCarthy told USA TODAY. "I was extremely scared that he was going to do something to me and my family."
McCarthy says he became a target of Ramos' rage after representing a woman in 2011 who accused Ramos of stalking her and threatening her online.
The woman told McCarthy that Ramos, who had gone to the same high school as she did, had been harassing her online since 2009. McCarthy described it as the "worst case of harassment and stalking I have ever encountered in my career" ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/29/lawyer-describes-dangerous-jarrod-ramos/747466002/
RockRaven
(14,972 posts)It's almost like people who have had restraining orders successfully placed against them should never be allowed to own/buy/possess a gun.