David Simon lashed out on Twitter on Thursday, following news that five people had been killed in a shooting at the newsroom of Maryland’s Capital Gazette newspaper, saying that friends of his had still not been accounted for hours after the shooting.
Simon, who prior to creating the HBO series “The Wire and “The Deuce” worked as a journalist at the Baltimore Sun, took a dig at Donald Trump, a frequent critic of the news media, after the shooting.
Simon posted a tweet from Trump reading, “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!”
“Blood today in an American newsroom,” Simon wrote in response to the tweet.