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Vicki Gardner, the woman who survived when two Virginia TV journalists were shot and killed by a disgruntled ex-colleague last month, said she played dead in an attempt to escape the killer’s bullets.

WDBJ-TV cameraman Adam Ward and reporter Alison Parker were killed. He fatally shot reporters Alison Parker and Adam Ward before he shot and killed himself several hours later.

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...

By videotaping the attack, then quickly sharing it on social media, it’s clear he wanted the rest of the world to see what he had done.

The grief-stricken father of a young Viriginia reporter who was shot and killed on live TV said Friday in an emotional gathering with reporters that he was determined to “shame” politicians into enacting stricter gun control laws in memory of his daughter.

“That’s racist, ‘” WDBJ7 cameraman Trevor Fair told the New York Post.

“And I’m going to do everything I can now to make sure her life has meaning, that people remember her and that we don’t have another Newtown, that we don’t have another movie theater shooting, that we don’t have another Charleston”, he said.

Flanagan had been fired from the station in 2013.

The Franklin County sheriff confirmed that it is considered an active-shooter situation and the suspect, who is believed to be male, is not in custody at this time.

The suspect in the shooting of reporter and cameraman at the Bridgewater Plaza in Franklin County, Va. died of self-inflicted gunshot wound at the hospital.

Two television journalists were killed during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, shot by a suspect who was a former employee of the TV station and who called himself a “powder keg” of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and elsewhere in the...

Two American TV journalists were shot dead during live reporting in rural Virginia on Wednesday, a local news network reported.

Shortly before 11:30 a.m., Virginia State Police spotted the suspect vehicle headed eastbound on Interstate 66.

A gunman killed a Virginia TV reporter and her cameraman colleague during a live broadcast Wednesday. WDBJ is reporting that police and other media outlets initially said he shot and killed himself. Vicki Gardner from the Smith Mountain Lake Chamber of Commerce was being...