"People Will Forget About Us": The Capital Gazette Shooting Survivors, Two Years Later
After the shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper, the surviving staff resolve to rebuild their paper.
by Chris Benderev
Mar 10, 2021
3 minutes
On June 28, 2018, reporter Selene San Felice was working in her cubicle on a local story. By mid-afternoon, she and her colleagues at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md., had become the subject of national news. Around 2:30 pm, a gunman had blasted his way into the newsroom and killed five members of the staff. San Felice hid under a desk and prayed.
San Felice worried that the shooting would barely register with the public, once it was no longer
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