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UPDATE: 5 dead after Maryland newspaper shooting

The Capital Gazette is owned by the Baltimore Sun.
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UPDATE: Police say five people are dead after a shooting at a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland on June 28. Several more are injured.

The shooter is in custody, police say.

He was a lone, male gunman, according to an article posted to the newspaper's website.

“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, a Capital Gazette reporter, wrote on Twitter

EARLIER: ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP) — Report: Multiple people shot at The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.

According to an article by the Capital Gazette, a Gazette reporter said multiple people had been shot.

Marc Limansky is a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Police Department. He says officers are searching the building in Annapolis where the shooting was reported. He says the situation is "active and ongoing."

On TV reports, people could be seen leaving the building with their hands up, as police officers urged them to depart through a parking lot and officers converged on the building.

No other information is known at this time.

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