Local police chief refuses to say Capital Gazette shooting suspect's name: 'He doesn't deserve us to talk about him one more second'

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published 29 June 2018

Timothy Altomare wants everyone's attention on the Capital Gazette shooting's victims, not on the suspect.

The police chief of Anne Arundel County, home to the Capital Gazette newsroom, described how agents used facial recognition to identify shooting suspect Jarrod Ramos in a press conference Friday. But Altomare wouldn't say Ramos' name, and urged anyone listening not to either.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.

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