Marks said Flanagan was fired after “many incidents of his anger coming to the fore.” Jeff Marks, WDBJ’s general manager, said during a live broadcast on the station that Flanagan “was sort of looking out for people to say something he could take offense to.” Overton said the gunman was “disturbed in some way.” Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, speaking on WTOP, described Flanagan as a “disgruntled” employee. He said the gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Virginia State Police in a Facebook post said he “was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of life-threatening injuries.” Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton said the gunman was pronounced dead at Inova Fairfax Hospital in the Washington, D.C., area at approximately 1:30 p.m. WDBJ reported that the gunman is in critical condition. Gardner was shot in the back, and is in stable condition after undergoing surgery at a nearby hospital. Ward, 27, a cameraman, both white, were pronounced dead at the scene.
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The gunman walked up to them, and fired multiple shots. Virginia On-Air Shooting: New Details on What Happened Ex-Roanoke TV station employee killed a reporter and cameraman on live TV before turning the gun on himself. Ward was filming Parker interview Vicki Gardner, the head of the Smith Mountain Lake Chamber of Commerce, at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia, at about 6:45 a.m. Both Twitter and Facebook suspended his accounts soon after he posted videos of the shooting. The footage, filmed from a shooter’s vantage point, showed the gunman approaching the victims. 'Virginia shooting breaks my heart' Video, 00:01:03 'Virginia shooting breaks my heart' Published. The gunman posted a video to Twitter and Facebook several hours after the shooting. Virginia shooting: On-air silence for slain journalists Close. The victims are a reporter, Alison Parker, 24, and a cameraman, Adam Ward, 27, the station confirmed. Flanagan, a former reporter at WDBJ7, who used the on-air name Bryce Williams. Video of the incident has been uploaded to YouTube.
Police identified the gunman as Vester L. The shooting happened at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia. He then led police on an hours-long chase before fatally shooting himself. A former reporter at the CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Virginia, shot and killed two journalists from the station during a live broadcast Wednesday, and wounded a third person. Raw video of Bryce Williams live shooting of reporter on air live and cameraman to death.The original video was deleted both on Twitter and Youtube, check th.
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