fischm fischman, sports reporter john mcnamara, sales assistant rebecca smith and rob hiassen. through it all, survivors reported on their all tragedy this morning. the paper rolled off the presses and on to stoops all around town. and this morning the capital gazette intern talked about leaving the newsroom when it was over. unfortunately we saw we had to pass two bodies of our colleagues, which was something that nobody should ever have to stomach. just unfortunate that somebody would come into a place that only reports truthful stories that are fact-based and unleash hell on the office. it was we tried to keep our eyes from off the ground, but inevitably we were we all as journalists, we re kind of curious and it was sickening. sickening. rene marsh is with us.
quiet, sweet dude was hilarious. he would say the sharpest things. and i remember i would see him and the editors rock back and forth in laughter at some of our stories. i m sure some of them were stories i wrote back in the day. oh my goodness. you also worked with rob hiassen. what do you want people to know about rob? yeah, oh my god. i loved rob so much. when i moved off the paper, i was so nervous about telling him that i was going to move on because the paper meant a lot to me, gave me a chance, and he was so supportive, and i was so nervous. when i told him, i started to cry a little bit. i felt so bad about leaving. and he looked at me and he said you know what, i don t think i want to see you here in another year or two because he knew that i was ready to leave, and he wanted me to achieve in my career whatever i can, and i was