ANNAPOLIS - The death toll in the brutal shootings at The Capital Gazette office in Annapolis, United States (US) reached five people. Police said the culprits had been arrested.
The attack on Thursday afternoon of US time also caused some people were injured, motive of the brutal shooting in the capital of State of Maryland is not known.
"There are some people who have died," Anne Arundel County executive Steven Schuh told reporters. "The shooter is in custody and is being interrogated," he said.
"We did have some casualties and we have some serious injuries," added local police chief Bill Kramph. "Five people were killed," he said.
He said police were interrogating the perpetrators and questioning several witnesses.
"We reinvent what we thought might be an explosive device," Kramph said when asked about a report of a grenade discovery at the scene. More than 170 people were successfully evacuated safely from the newspaper office that was attacked.
Previously, several journalists from the newspaper who became the target of the attack told the shooting via Twitter. "A gunman shot some people in my office, some of whom died," writes The Capital Gazette criminal reporter Phil Davis, on Twitter.
"Nothing is more terrible than hearing some people getting shot while you are under your table and then hearing the gunman return," he continued.
Anne Arundel Sheriff's official, Ron Bateman told Fox News that the attacker had already been arrested. The suspect has no document for identification.
On the other hand, White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said US President Donald Trump had known about the incident of the attack on the media.
"My prayers and thoughts with the victims and their families, thanks to all the helpers who are currently on the scene," Trump said on Twitter.
On the other hand, the police in Baltimore and New York City later said they had deployed protective troops to a number of major media in their city as a precautionary and preventive measure.
"We deployed units from Emergency Response Command to media throughout New York," said New York Police Department spokesman Andrew Lava. "There is currently no known threat,
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