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A man charged with gunning down at least five people, including a veteran journalist and injuring several others at a Maryland newspaper sent three letters on the day of the attack, including one that said he was on his way to the Capital Gazette newsroom with the aim "of killing every person present," according to police.

A spokeswoman for Anne Arundel County police Sgt. Jacklyn Davis said the letters were received Monday and were mailed to an attorney for The Capital newspaper.

The suspect, Jarrod Ramos dispatched a letter to the Baltimore-based attorney of Annapolis newspaper's which was written to match a legal motion for reconsideration of his attempted defamation lawsuit in 2012 against a journalist and former publisher Tom Marquardt.

"If this is how the Maryland Judiciary operates, the law now means nothing," Ramos wrote. He quoted a description of the purpose of a defamation suit, saying it was intended for a defamed person to "resort to the courts for relief instead of wreaking his own vengeance."

"‘That' is how your judiciary operates, you were too cowardly to confront those lies, and this is your receipt," Ramos wrote.

He signed it under the chilling statement: "I told you so." Below that, he wrote that he was going to the newspaper's office "with the objective of killing every person present."

In a letter attached to what appeared to be the faux court filing, he also directly addressed retired special appeals court Judge Charles Moylan, who ruled against Ramos in his defamation case. After pleading guilty, Ramos sued the newspaper to harassing a woman on social media who was his high school classmate.

"Welcome, Mr. Moylan, to your unexpected legacy: YOU should have died," he wrote. He signed it: "Friends forever, Jarrod W. Ramos."

Ramos also sent a document to Maryland's highest court, and it has been sealed at the request of prosecutors.

By Sowmya Sangam