https://www.cnet.com/news/how-facial-recognition-idd-the-capital-gazette-shooter/ > A controversial facial recognition system let police quickly discover the name of a suspect captured after he shot journalists at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, last week, officials said.   > "We would have been much longer in identifying and being able to push forward in the investigation without that system," Tim Altomare, Anne Arundel county police chief, said at a press conference June 29. Five people were killed in the shooting.