Rob Hiaasen, United States
Rob Hiaasen, assistant news editor, and other four staff members of the Capital Gazette daily, based in Annapolis, were killed on June 28 when an attacker armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades forced his way into the paper's office and sprayed the newsroom with bullets.
Media reports said the suspect, who has been arrested, had brought a defamation suit against several of the paper's journalists in 2012 after the Capital Gazette reported on a criminal case in which the suspect plead guilty to harassing a woman on social media. A judge later dismissed the lawsuit, a ruling upheld by a higher court in 2015.
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