Capital Gazette Shooting Victims: The 5 Killed In Attack On Maryland Newspaper
A gunman entered the offices of The Capital newspaper in Annapolis Thursday and opened fire, killing four of the paper's journalists and a sales assistant. We have profiles of the victims.
Gerald Fischman, 61, editorial page editor
Fischman was an award winning writer and editor at The Capital who had worked for the paper for more than a quarter century. The Baltimore Sun, which owns the Annapolis-based Capital, says colleagues noted Fischman's quiet personality, which masked a keen mind that produced editorials ranging from state politics to arts reviews.
"He had ability that, I thought, deserved a higher calling than The Capital," longtime editor and publisher Tom Marquardt acknowledged to the Sun.
"He was a twice," Marquardt said, according to newspaper. "But he couldn't get accepted because they didn't like his personality. That was Gerald's spin, anyway."
