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.

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