Survivor’s husband recounts story before gunfire erupted

He also talked about his support for universal background checks for gun purchases and said he and Alison Parker’s father, Adam, would fight for tougher gun laws. Among the mourners was Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. That meteorologist, Leo Hirsbrunne, visited the memorial and read the notes outside the news station.

“While there is no piece of legislation that will end all violence”, he said, “there are some common sense things that only Congress can do that we know would have attainable impacts at reducing gun violence”.

Parker and Ward were just doing their jobs when Vester Flanagan II fatally ambushed them Wednesday during a live broadcast.

“He shot three times at my wife and she was trying to dodge everything”, Tim Gardner said.

Suspect and former WDBJ colleague Vester Flanagan, aka Bryce Williams, shot himself dead following a police auto chase hours after the attack.

There was some positive news Thursday, the Chamber of Commerce leader who was injured, Vicki Gardner, has been upgraded to good condition.

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He then fled the scene, pursued by cops.

Defilippi of the Virginia State Police filed a search warrant with the Fauquier County magistrate and the items were found in Flanagan’s rental vehicle after the crash.

The New York Post reported that Greg Baldwin, assistant news director at the station, said the 21 January complaint referred to Ms Parker saying the phrases “swinging” by an address and going out in the “field”. There were headshots of himself hanging on the kitchen refrigerator.

One neighbor at Westwind described him as quiet, but another said he ‘walked around with a chip on his shoulder.’ tells the NBC report. Flanagan accused her of making a racist remark, something he apparently did often. “He complied with what we asked him to do”. Flanagan had been fired from the station in 2013. When he was terminated in February 2013 he had to be escorted out by police. Flanagan’s case was dismissed.

Dwyer joined the WDBJ team about a year ago. “It breaks my heart every time you read about or hear about these kinds of incidents”. In lieu of a funeral, Parker’s parents say they plan to hold a celebration of life with close friends and family in honor of their daughter.