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Thursday afternoon, a gunman shot through the glass doors of the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis and began a shooting rampage. Five journalists—Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters, Gerald Fischman, John McNamara, and Rebecca Smith—were killed.

Now, a D.C. journalist named Madi Alexander has started a GoFundMe fundraiser for the Capital Gazette newsroom and its journalists. Alexander got in contact with journalists in the affected newsroom and decided to start a fundraising page, according to the Baltimore Sun, which owns the Capital Gazette.

DCist reached out to Alexander, but she declined to comment, saying she preferred to keep the focus of these stories on the Capital Gazette newsroom.

“I can’t stop shaking because I can’t stop thinking about how this could be any of us,” Alexander, a 26-year-old reporter for Bloomberg Government, told the Sun. “There’s nothing to keep this from happening to any newsroom or newspaper across the country.”

The GoFundMe campaign says the money is to help with “medical bills, funeral costs, newsroom repairs, and any other unforeseen expenses that might arise as a result of this terrible shooting.” Specific details have not yet been worked out about how the money will be distributed, though.

“We are working with all parties to ensure the funds are safely and transparently distributed to the appropriate place,” a GoFundMe spokesperson wrote in an email to DCist. “The funds are collected by our payment processor and only distributed following consultation with the campaign organizer and The Capital Gazette. The funds will only be transferred to those impacted by the shooting in the Gazette newsroom.” GoFundMe says that their general policy for campaigns where someone is raising money for someone else is to disallow the organizer from withdrawing funds, so as to ensure the money goes to the appropriate place.

Alexander’s original fundraising goal was $30,000, but it has since been adjusted upward several times. As of 2:30 p.m. Friday, the fundraiser had reached nearly $135,000 of its $150,000 goal.