On June 28, 2018, cameras descended on the tight-knit waterfront community of Annapolis, Maryland, where I worked as a multimedia journalist for the newspaper known locally as the Capital. To the rest of the world, we became the Capital Gazette, the site of the deadliest attack on a newsroom in modern U.S. history. That day I lost my dear friends and colleagues Rebecca Smith, Wendi Winters, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, and John McNamara. I wasn’t in the newsroom that day, but in the aftermath of the shooting, I was motivated to document the resilience of my colleagues who refused to be silenced and worked in the face of tragedy to continue reporting the truth. These were moments from that night and the weeks that followed.
June 28, 2018
