Days Before Shooting, Capital Gazette Reported Police Would Be Conducting Mass Shooting Drills
The suspect in the Annapolis Shooting did not carry an ID and mutilated his own fingers so that he would not be identified by police.
By Rachel Blevins
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
June 29, 2018
Annapolis, Maryland – Five people were killed in another mass shooting after a man opened fire at the Capital Gazette newspaper on Thursday afternoon, in what is being called a “targeted attack” by a deranged individual who reportedly went as far as mutilating his own fingers in order to keep police from identifying him.
Fueling conspiracy theories online, just one week before the shooting at the newspaper’s headquarters, the Capital Gazette reported that “Annapolis Police will be conducting an active shooter drill.”
The Annapolis Police Department released a statement claiming that residents “should be aware that real-life sights and sounds may be seen and heard along the periphery of the campus and a variety of emergency response vehicles will be in the area.”
Annapolis Fire Department Spokesperson Ken White said that the drill was being held “just in case… we have an active shooter here in Annapolis,” and insisted that “with the increase of active shooter incidents we are seeing, the city has determined that it’s important for us to hold this training so that in the event that something may happen, we will be well-prepared.”
As TFTP has reported, similar drill situations played out during the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks, the July 7, 2007 London subway bombings, the Parkland shooting, and the Paris theater attack on November 13, 2015—which all saw training drills taking place virtually simultaneously to the real-life event for which they were training.
Obviously, coincidences do happen, but the odds of these drills being run in such close proximity to the actual events being trained for seems remote enough to point out.
Jarrod Ramos, 38, was charged with five counts of first-degree murder on Thursday night, and while he appears to be quickly apprehended by police, it took several hours for officers to identify him. Reports claimed that he “refused to talk to investigators or give his name,” and that he “was not carrying any identification.”
Ramos even went as far as to mutilate his own fingers, in an attempt to avoid being identified by police. However, while police have not said whether facial recognition was used to determine the suspect’s identity, they claim they eventually ID’d him because he had a longstanding feud with employees at the newspaper.
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