Hey, Ari Shapiro here. It's Sunday, which means we have a bonus episode for you.

Today, it's a story years in the making. A story that takes you inside the trial of a man

who was upset with his local newspaper. So one day, he walked into the offices of that

newspaper and killed five people who worked there. It comes from our colleagues at NPR's

Investigative Podcast embedded. They've been following this story closely from the very

beginning. Host Kelly McEvers takes it from here.

Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers and this is embedded from NPR. Earlier this year, we did a series

about a newspaper, the Capitol Gazette, in Annapolis, Maryland, where back in 2018, a man walked

into the newsroom and shot and killed five people who worked there. Years before, the

man had been convicted of harassing a woman he met on Facebook. The paper wrote a story

about it and the man got really angry at the paper. The man eventually pleaded guilty

to murdering the five people who worked at the Capitol Gazette. Her back is Smith, Wendy

Winters, Rob Hyacin, Gerald Fishman, and John McNamara. After the shooting, we followed

the surviving staff for a couple of years. We wanted to know what life and work would

be like for people who went through something like that. But at the time, when we put out

our series, there was one part of the story we couldn't include. Because even though the

man had pleaded guilty to the murders, he also pleaded insanity, which meant he eventually

would go to trial. And this summer, three years after the shooting, that trial finally

started. Again, this was not about whether the shooter, his name is Jared Raymos, committed

the crime. Instead, a jury would decide whether he was not criminally responsible by reason

of insanity. If the jury agreed, he was not

criminally responsible. Instead of going to prison, he'd go to a psychiatric hospital.

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