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- Wendi Winters, 65, picked up a trash can and charged at the gunman who opened fire in the Capital Gazette newsroom on June 28, newsroom staff said.
- Her son, Phoenix Geimer, told the roughly 700 people who attended a memorial service on Saturday that Winters was “an American hero.”
- Winters along with five other colleagues were killed in the shooting. The gunman faces five counts of murder and is being held without bail.
One of the reporters who died June 28 in a shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, ambushed the gunman with a trash can in an effort to save her colleagues, her son reportedly said at memorial service on Saturday.
Wendi Winters, 65, was one of five employees fatally shot that day. The alleged gunman, 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos, faces five counts of murder and is being held without bail.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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