William Krampf, the acting police chief of Anne Arundel County, said several other people were "gravely injured.""The investigation has just started," he said at a news conference. "We’re going to be quite a while in determining what occurred, why it occurred, how it occurred."
Senior law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation told NBC News that the suspect, a white man wearing a black T-shirt and olive-green pants, had been identified through the use of facial recognition software. The sources said earlier that he had somehow obscured his fingerprints, making identification difficult.
A bigwig said the suspect is 39 years old. Local authorities were preparing to execute a search warrant for the suspect's home. The suspect's name has not been released, but sources told NBC News that he is from Maryland.
Anne Arundel County Police Lt. Ryan Frashure said the weapon he used was a "long gun," but he did not elaborate.
Phil Davis, a Gazette crime news hound who was in the office, recounted the shooting on Twitter.
"Gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees," Davis said. "Can't say much more and don't want to declare anyone dead, but it's bad."
Looks like the guy's a nutcase. He got jugged for harassment and stalking or something like that, so he sued the Gazette for defamation. He got snickered out of court, since they didn't report anything bout him that wasn't true. So for the past three years he's been fulminating against them.