Attention all units, tension all units. The request of Annark County to have an ongoing active shooter at the Capitol Gazette. Anything I have right now is a white male with a shotgun. Several subjects have been shot inside.

I'm Scott Weinberger, Investigator journalist and former deputy sheriff.

I'm Anasiga Nikolazi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation discoveries true conviction.

And this is Anatomy of Murph.

Week in and week out, we present stories about the victims of homicide and the investigators and prosecutors that try to unravel the motives behind their murders.

But no matter how many stories we tell or how many cases we examine, it still seems impossible to ever fully understand the reasons why one person decides to take another person's

life. Money, jealousy, revenge, the motives, no matter how real to the killer, are never enough

to rationalize the violence. That proves especially true in the cases where there are multiple

innocent victims. Instances of mass murder, whether there are multiple innocent victims.

Instances of mass murder, whether we are talking about killings by gangs, terrorists, or just

one individual are fortunately still relatively rare in the United States and make up just a small

percentage of the total number of murders per year.

But that percentage is going up, reflecting both modern weapon capabilities

and the continued presence of people prepared to commit violence.

In today's episode, we are going to discuss a topic that we haven't touched on too much on IOM,

and that is the case of a public mass shooting that claimed the lives of multiple victims.

Tragically, it is a topic that has affected far too many lives in this country.

So we just wanted to give a warning that today's episode could be especially difficult

to anyone who

has known a victim or is a survivor of a mass shooting.

Annarrundel County has a little bit of everything. There's suburbs, there's towns, there's rural.

We have the fourth largest population in Maryland. So it's a very interesting place to live, and I've lived here

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