Reporter and Photographer Shot and Killed During Live TV Broadcast

Upon hiring Williams, WDBJ news director Dan Dennison said in 2012: “Attracting Orlando and Bryce, two veteran reporters with an enormous scope of experience to our team, is a testament to the quality and professionalism of the news produced daily by the WDBJ7 team”. “And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them”, he continued.

In his tweets, before his account was suspended, Williams had accused Parker of racism. “The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…” “BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!” The governor initially described a auto chase on his weekly radio show, with police on the shooter’s tail on an interstate highway. The interview was done at a shopping center not yet open for the day at a remote lake in Moneta, some 25 miles away from WDBJ’s studios in Roanoke.

The man who police say killed two journalists during a live broadcast Wednesday was no stranger to WDBJ-TV.

The man behind Wednesday’s deadly shooting of journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward cited mass-shootings as the inspiration behind his attack along with personal grievances.

Dr. Patrick says that sometimes if disgruntled employees have exhausted all legal avenues, social media is their only outlet to vent their frustration.

More accurately, Williams was the on-air name for Vester Lee Flanagan II. A third person, Vicki Gardner, was injured and is reportedly recovering in hospital.

The shooting was reported at 6:45 a.m. and the Franklin County sheriff confirmed that it is considered an active-shooter situation, adding that the suspect is believed to be male. You can find live updates from the shooting investigation here.

ABC News reports that he never revealed what the story was. Another tweet suggested that Ward complained to human resources officials after the pair worked together.

The same footage was posted on a Facebook page, also under the name Bryce Williams.

He said that at one point, his father asked him if he was taking steroids. “He did not take that well”, Marks said.

According to court filings, the complaint was settled in January 2001.

Then a gun comes into the frame, aimed at Parker, and several shots ring out.

Ward filmed the former reporter’s angry outburst as police tried to get him to leave the station’s building, according to the documents, which are part of a lawsuit Flanagan filed against the TV station. Ward was engaged to station producer Melissa Ott, who watched from the control room as he was shot, and was known as a happy-go-lucky guy who seldom missed a football game at his alma mater, Virginia Tech. “We just celebrated her 24th birthday”. Shafer had hired and fired Flanagan at a Florida television station.