A Maryland man was charged with multiple counts of murder on Friday, a day after police say he rampaged through a newsroom in Annapolis with a shotgun and killed five people in one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in US history.

 Several others injured in Annapolis, Maryland with suspect charged and due in court on Friday morning 

• Five people were killed and several were "gravely injured" in a shooting Thursday afternoon at the Capital Gazette's newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, police said.
• One suspect, described by officials as a white man, possibly in his late 30s, is in custody. Police haven't released information about a possible motive.
• Newsroom employees have been tweeting details of the shooting, with one reporter saying the gunman shot through a glass door and opened fire on employees.

AN INTERN at a local newspaper tweeted desperately for help as a shooter attacked his office. Five people were shot dead.