Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded from NPR.

I just want to say there's some strong language in this episode and this series goes in order

so if you haven't yet, go back and listen from the first episode.

Okay, so in that episode we told you how the staff at the Capitol Gazette put out a paper

in the parking lot the day of the shooting.

After that night, one of the reporters who was there, Chase Cook, actually kept reporting

on the shooting.

He did a detailed timeline of what happened.

He did interviews with people who knew the shooter.

We haven't said the shooter's name yet in this series, but we will now, mainly because

we'll be talking about his legal case.

It's Jared Raymos.

Anyway, a few weeks after the shooting, Chase decided and his editor backed him up that

he actually wanted to interview Raymos.

Because Chase wanted the scoop, no one else had talked to the guy.

And because he wanted to ask him why he did it.

And why he waited seven years after he first got mad at the paper for publishing a column

about him before he attacked it.

Chase wrote him a letter and asked for an interview.

Didn't get a response.

So he drove to the detention center where Raymos was being held.

I thought that if I could go there, that maybe he would let me talk to him because I was

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