Grieving Capital Gazette journalists cover the massacre of their own newsroom
In armored truck rumbled outside the Capital Gazette newspaper office in Annapolis. Police with assault rifles walked the street. Yellow crime tape cordoned off the newsroom where the journalists were fatally shot.
And across the street, their colleagues — two reporters, one photographer — were working to report the story of the day, the massacre of their friends and co-workers.
“I don’t know what else to do except this,” reporter Chase Cook said, the grief showing in his eyes.
A state politics reporter for The Capital newspaper, Cook had worked 16 hours on Election Day. So he was home Thursday afternoon when a gunman shot his way inside the Capital Gazette newsroom. Armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun, police say, the attacker killed five people and wounded two others — reporters, editors, saleswomen.
Just that morning, assistant editor Rob Hiaasen had called Cook. A reader had complained about a headline.
“We worked it out,” Cook said. “I haven’t spoken to him since.”
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