I am heartbroken for his fiancee.- Chris Hurst August 26, 2015 I am comforted by everyone at We are a family. Nothing of this nature that any of us could recall." "These two were more than what you saw here on TV, they were much, much more," anchor Kimberly McBroom said.Īsked on CNN if the station had been targeted or had been threatened, Marks said, "Every now and then you get a crazy email or something and we'll look into it. Station employees could be heard crying in the background.
"I cannot tell you how much they were loved," WDBJ General Manager Jeff Marks said about Parker and Ward during a somber broadcast. Parker and Ward were filming a feature segment for the morning news program at Bridgewater Plaza, a shopping and recreation plaza. "Everyone who purchases a firearm in the commonwealth of Virginia should go through a background check." "There are certain people who should not be entitled to own a firearm," he said. Terry McAuliffe called for more gun control. His erratic behavior surfaced again earlier this summer, CNN reports, in the form of a video that captured a road rage incident in July. One of Flanagan's former employers fired him for "odd behavior," said San Diego 6 News Director Don Shafer, who noted that despite being a good "on-air performer" and a "pretty good reporter," things began to get strange with Flanagan. The Florida case was settled and dismissed the next year, court records show. The lawsuit, filed in federal court against Tallahassee station WTWC, said a supervisor at the station called black people lazy. In 2000, Flanagan sued another station where he worked in Florida, alleging he had been called a "monkey" and discriminated against because he was black. In the document, Flanagan references the Charleston church shooting on June 17 as a tipping point and also makes note of the Virginia Tech mass shooter Seung Hui Cho, claiming that Jehovah spoke to him "telling him to act." The document also made claims of suffering racial discrimination, bullying, and sexual harassment, and said that he was attacked for being black and gay. The account has since been suspended.ĪBC News reports that the network received a 23-page fax from Flanagan, identifying himself as Bryce Williams, “sometime between last night and this morning,” that staffers have turned over to authorities. Twitter account posted two videos clearly showing the shooting. "It's obvious that this gentleman was disturbed in some way over the way things transpired in his life and things were spiraling out of control." He was a prior employee, but we are looking into all of those dimensions," said Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton. Police were not able to immediately identify a motive, though evidence suggests that his departure from the station may have played into the shooting. The station reported that Flanagan was a former employee who was let go two years ago. Flanagan used the name Bryce Williams when he worked at WDBJ7. The woman being interviewed, V icki Gardner, executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, was shot in the back and was in stable condition following surgery, officials said. WDBJ7 said the reporter, Alison Parker, 24, and the cameraman, Adam Ward, 27, died in the incident. The incident took place in Bedford County, in the south-central part of the state and about 120 miles from the capital of Richmond. The on-air shooting of the journalists occurred at about 6:45 a.m.
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The troopers approached the vehicle and found the male driver suffering from a gunshot wound," police said in the statement. "Minutes later, the suspect's vehicle ran off the road and crashed. He was driving a rental car after leaving his own car at the Roanoke–Blacksburg Regional Airport this morning, the station said. The station, WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia, reported that Flanagan shot himself as Virginia State Police were closing in on his rental car on Interstate 66 in Fauquier County. Flanagan, 41, of Roanoke, died at approximately 1:30 p.m. after succumbing to self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said in an afternoon press conference. The man suspected in the killing of two television journalists as they were conducting a live television interview in Virginia on Wednesday morning shot and killed himself, according to authorities.
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