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'We're doing fine' | Editor of Annapolis Capital Gazette speaks about anniversary of mass shooting

'Journalists run toward these things, not away from them,' editor Rick Hutzell says.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The editor of the Annapolis Capital Gazette Newspaper said survivors of the mass shooting attack on June 28, 2018 are "doing fine."

Editor Rick Hutzell spoke Thursday at a gun safety and trauma conference in Annapolis that was organized as part of the one-year commemoration of the attack that killed five of Hutzell's colleagues.

"Journalists run toward these things, not away from them," Hutzell said. 

He reminded listeners that the journalism profession requires confronting trauma and tragedy.

Hutzell said colleagues and the families of shooting victims have suffered heavily, but have shared their grief together while receiving the support of the journalism profession and the entire city of Annapolis.

However, Hutzell said the burden will never be erased.

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"There's no closure," Hutzell said. "I want to make sure you know that anyone who's looking for closure here today, it ain't happening."

Hutzell spoke at the two-day Safe Cities conference on gun safety and surviving trauma organized by Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley to mark the one-year anniversary of the attack on the city's daily newspaper.

Other events to commemorate the deaths of five during the mass shooting on June 28, 2018 will include the dedication of a memorial in Acton's Cove Park at 10:30 a.m., as well as a concert at Maryland Hall at 7 p.m.

Friday will also mark the first ever statewide observance of "Freedom of the Press Day," which was approved by Maryland lawmakers earlier this year.

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