Capital Gazette reporter: Staff could hear shooter firing, reloading weapon

A reporter for the Capital Gazette newspaper shared a firsthand account on Thursday of the shooting in his newsroom’s office earlier that day.

Phil Davis, a crime reporter for the Annapolis, Md., paper, was cited by name among the first first reports of the shooting. Davis tweeted the shooter “shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees.”

He tweeted that multiple people were killed in the shooting and that employees could hear the shooter firing a gun and reloading the weapon.

I will tweet what I can while I wait to be interviewed by police.

— Phil Davis (@PhilDavis_CG) June 28, 2018 

A single shooter shot multiple people at my office, some of whom are dead.

— Phil Davis (@PhilDavis_CG) June 28, 2018

Gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees. Can’t say much more and don’t want to declare anyone dead, but it’s bad.

— Phil Davis (@PhilDavis_CG) June 28, 2018

There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you’re under your desk and then hear the gunman reload

— Phil Davis (@PhilDavis_CG) June 28, 2018 

I’m currently waiting to be interviewed by police, so I’m safe and no longer at the office.

— Phil Davis (@PhilDavis_CG) June 28, 2018

Ok, I was not tweeting from under my desk. I was already safe when I started tweeting

— Phil Davis (@PhilDavis_CG) June 28, 2018

At least four people were killed after a shooter entered the newspaper’s building and opened fire, according to multiple reports.

Anne Arundel County Sheriff Ron Bateman told Fox News that a suspect was apprehended in the shooting, but not motive had yet been identified.

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President Trump has been briefed on the shooting, according to White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with all that are affected,” Walters said in a statement.