Perpetrator's assault had been arguing with newspaper for some time

annapolis - The 38-year-old man suspected of shooting five people and wounding three people at the office of the American regional newspaper Capital Gazette in the city of Anapolis had a long-standing conflict with the magazine. US media reports that.

The defendant conducted a lawsuit in 2012 against two editors of the newspaper. He accused them of slander. The editors had written that the man harassed others through social media. In 2015 the judge agreed with the journalists and judged that their reporting was accurate. The suspect claimed that the news has destroyed his life.

After the shooting at the editorial office of the newspaper in the US state of Maryland, an explosive was also found, the local police reported. An hour after the attack bomb specialists have made the projectile harmless.

The police have the suspect within a few minutes after the shooting began to be arrested. The police that he acted alone and the danger to the newspaper after his arrest has passed. A few hours after the shooting the house of the suspect was investigated. The fatalities are two women and three men. All were employed by the newspaper, three as a journalist, the other two in a different function.

According to a deputy sheriff, the first agents were on the spot after a minute. 'I think we could have saved many lives because we were so fast in the building,' he said.

The Governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, said 'completely broken' after hearing the tragedy at the newspaper, one of the oldest in the US and owned by The Baltimore Sun. One of the journalists who were working also responded via Twitter. 'There is nothing more terrible than hearing that several people are shot while you are sitting under your desk and hear that the shooter is reloading,' said Phil Davis, before he told his story to the police.

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