Suspect in Maryland newspaper shooting identified as Jarrod Ramos

The suspect in Thursday’s shooting at a Maryland newspaper was identified as Jarrod Ramos, born Dec. 21, 1979, according to three senior law enforcement officials.

At least five were killed and several others “gravely injured” during a shooting at the offices of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, law enforcement officials said.

Ramos had a history with the paper, filing a suit against it in 2012. NBC News obtained this mugshot photo of the suspect from a prior arrest:

In 2012, Ramos brought a defamation lawsuit against Eric Hartley, formerly a staff writer and columnist with the Capital, and Thomas Marquardt, then editor and publisher of the Capital, according to a court filing.

In 2015, Maryland’s second-highest court upheld a ruling in favor of the Capital Gazette and a former reporter who were accused by Ramos of defamation.

According to a legal document, the article contended that Ramos had harassed a woman on Facebook and that he had pleaded guilty to criminal harassment. The court agreed that the contents of the article were accurate and based on public records, the document showed.

Ramos said on Twitter that he had set up an account to defend himself, and wrote in his bio that he was suing people in Anne Arundel County and “making corpses of corrupt careers and corporate entities.”