CBS THIS MORNING co-host Norah O’Donnell, the only network anchor on the scene in Annapolis, Md., led Friday’s CBS News coverage of the deadly shooting at The Capital Gazette newspaper offices.

O’Donnell’s reporting featured interviews with Anne Arundel County Police Chief Timothy Altomare, who revealed the latest information on the investigation into the shooting, and former FBI senior profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole, who offered some perspective on what may have led alleged shooter Jarrod Ramos to the shooting.

Ongoing coverage of the shooting and the aftermath continues today on CBSN, CBS News’ 24/7 digital streaming news network.

“Many are still grieving the five victims after what is one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in U.S. history,” O’Donnell reported Friday. “Now, even though five of The Capital Gazette staff were killed, several of the roughly 30-strong editorial staff were seen working in a nearby garage after the attack. They were covering the story while the fate of their friends and colleagues was still unknown.”

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“We’re frustrated, I think. We know what happened, we’re still working on a lot of the why,” Altomare told O’Donnell, adding that they executed search warrants at the suspect’s home. “We still have a lot of questions. We didn’t find any real motivator. We did find some physical evidence that showed origin of the plan.”

O’Donnell was joined during CBS THIS MORNING on scene by CBS News correspondent Chip Reid, who had the only interview with the attorney who had represented a woman who was harassed by Ramos. Reporters at The Capital Gazette covered the harassment story.

“He was as angry an individual as I have ever seen,” attorney Brennan McCarthy told Reid of Ramos. “She lost her job because of this individual….He is malevolent. He forwarded a letter to her employer, basically stating that she was bipolar and a drunkard, which is ridiculous.”

O’Toole suggested to O’Donnell that Ramos was an “injustice collector, but a dangerous injustice collector” who goes through life and collects injustices, real or imagined.

“Unfortunately, there are many people out there like this guy, and he stepped over the line,” O’Toole said.

Ryan Kadro is the executive producer of CBS THIS MORNING and CBS THIS MORNING: SATURDAY.

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