Woman Warned Police Annapolis Newsroom Madman Would Be “Their Next Shooter”

Mass shooters don’t just come out of nowhere.

It seems like every time something like this happens, info starts trickling out that people knew. That people suspected this person was capable of something like this. Even that people warned authorities something would happen.

And yet… no one stopped them.

Why does this keep happening? And what can we do to prevent it from happening again?

According to Daily Caller:

In a now too familiar scenario, a woman claimed she had warned police that the Capital Gazette shooting suspect would be “your next mass shooter.”

The woman, whose name was not released, claimed that Jarrod W. Ramos had stalked her years before and she had warned a former police official that “he will be your next mass shooter,” WBAL-TV reported.

Here he is: pic.twitter.com/4OBqZX5kNa

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) June 29, 2018

The 38-year-old gunman allegedly stormed into the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday, killing five staff members.

“He’s a f***** nut job” –woman who says she was stalked by suspect in fatal shooting of 5 people at Capital Gazette in Annapolis…says she warned former police official years ago..”he will be your next mass shooter”

— Jayne Miller (@jemillerwbal) June 29, 2018

She told Jayne Miller, an investigative reporter at WBAL, that Ramos had become “fixated” on her for no apparent reason. The situation caused her to move three times and to change her name. Out of fear, the woman said, she was sleeping with a gun.

Woman who was stalked, harassed, sued, and scared away to another state by suspect in fatal shooting of 5 at Capital Gazette in Annapolis told me he became, for no obvious reason, “fixated” with her..caused her to move 3x, changed her name, and now sleeps with a gun.

— Jayne Miller (@jemillerwbal) June 29, 2018

Holy CRAP.

Unfortunately, it is becoming more common to hear of the post-shooting reports of “warnings” by people afraid of a suspect’s behavior or demeanor which seemed to go unheeded by law enforcement or others who may have acted to prevent the tragedies. This was recently seen in Florida where multiple incidents with Parkland mass-shooter Nikolas Cruz were not followed up on by police and FBI before he opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people.

“This individual had some type of vendetta against The Capital newspaper and they were specifically targeted,” Anne Arundel County police Lt. Ryan Frashure said, according to WBAL.

Ramos was charged with five counts of first-degree murder.

But of COURSE, this is the gun’s fault.

The Capital Gazette wrote about his stalking…which is why he decided to take his sick “revenge” on them.

Everything about this is so screwed up.