WDBJ reporter Alison Parker, photographer shot to death on air

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An active shooter is on the loose after shooting to death two local Virginia journalists while they were on-air live on Wednesday.

WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward were doing a standard live shot with a woman at a water park when a gunman opened fire on them live.

The station reported of its journalists’ death on-air Wednesday morning. “We do not know the motive or who the suspect is,” an anchor said on-air.

http://www.thewrap.com/virginia-reporter-photographer-shot-to-death-on-air/

 

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http://www.thewrap.com/virginia-reporter-photographer-shot-to-death-on-air/

As it turns out, the suspect was a former on-air employee of the station, Vester Flanagan (known on-air as Bryce Williams.)

 

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WDBJ Gunman Confirmed Dead

Vester Flanagan, the suspect accused of fatally shooting two WDBJ Roanoke journalists Wednesday morning, has been confirmed dead by authorities after shooting himself.

He died at a hospital in Northern Virginia, according to Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton. Vester Flanagan died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound around 1:30 p.m., according to WDBJ7.com and multiple other sources.

Flanagan, described as a disgruntled former WDBJ reporter who worked under the name Bryce Williams, recorded himself shooting the journalists, reporter Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward, then posted the video online. The killings took place around 6:46 a.m. while Parker was interviewing a source on air. The broadcast then goes back to a stunned anchor, Kimberly McBroom, back at the station. McBroom said she thought the sound of gunfire might have been a car backfiring or fireworks. “The last thing I thought I’d heard was gunshots,” she said.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/local-tv/wdbj-gunman-confirmed-dead/143640

 

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