Survivors and family members of the 2018 shooting that killed five employees at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland expressed both relief and sadness Tuesday morning after the shooter received multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Michael Wachs sentenced Jarrod Ramos, a 41-year-old from Laurel, to six life sentences without the possibility of parole, five 20-year sentences for the surviving victims, and eleven 25-year sentences for use of a firearm in a crime of violence. It’s a total of more than 340 years in a maximum security prison.

The sentencing followed a jury’s verdict in July which determined that Ramos was sane and criminally responsible for the 2018 murders of Gerald Fischman, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith, Rob Hiassen, and Wendi Winters. The mass shooting drew national attention as one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in modern U.S. history.

“The impact of this case is just simply immense. To say that the defendant exhibited a disregard for the sanctity of human life is a huge understatement,” Wachs said prior to delivering the sentence. “He took from us five beautiful people.”

Selene San Felice, one of the survivors, provided one of many impact statements during the sentencing hearing. “You cannot kill the truth, no matter how many journalists you shoot, and long after the last newspapers are printed the truth will live on,” she told the court.

Outside the courthouse after the hearing, San Felice stood with her parents saying she was relieved by the judge’s sentence. “It felt really good to look the judge in the eye and also look the shooter in the eye. It meant a lot to me to be able to look him in the face and tell him he failed,” San Felice said.

Paul Gillespie, the paper’s photographer, also spoke outside the courthouse, saying he was happy that the trial is over. “I don’t think there’s ever going to be any closure. I lost five of my family members. I was almost killed myself,” Gillespie told reporters.

Loved ones of the five employees who were killed also spoke. Wendi Winters’ two daughters, Summerleigh Winters Geimer and Montana Winters, said that for the past three years they’ve been anxiously waiting for the legal process to play out in court.

“But the thing that has been the biggest impact for us is we ran out of time with our mother,” Montana said. “We lost the storyteller of our family… going forward every single day we’ll feel her absence. It gives us solace that the person who took her from us will never breathe freedom again.”

Anne Arundel County’s State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess, the lead prosecutor in the case, told the judge prior to sentencing that Ramos expressed no remorse for his actions and even told a psychologist a year after the shooting that he had no regrets and “wished he had shot more people.”

“He [Ramos] killed innocent people just to feel better about himself,” Leitess told reporters following the hearing. “The jury saw through that and the judge saw through it today sentencing him to the maximum possible sentence under law.”

Ramos had pleaded guilty, but said he was not criminally responsible for his actions — Maryland’s version of the insanity plea. Ramos refused to speak in the courtroom today. Katy O’Donnell, Ramos’s defense lawyer, told the judge that Ramos asked them not to request leniency for his sentence. O’Donnell maintained throughout the trial that Ramos suffered from multiple mental health disorders.

But in sentencing, Wachs said it was a “cold-blooded, calculated attack on innocent employees of a small town newspaper. We have a man that spent years planning this mass shooting. To my shock, he said they were the best years of his life,” said the judge.

Ramos will spend the rest of his days in a maximum security prison in western Maryland and has 30 days to appeal the verdict, according to Wachs.