Virginia TV crew involved in shooting

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 United States.

Twitter and Facebook accounts that allegedly belong Flanagan (under his reporting name of Williams) posted extremely disturbing graphic first-person video of the shooting this morning. Ward was 27 year sold and Parker had just celebrated her 24th birthday.

Overton told the media that he was watching Parker’s report on WDBJ this morning when the shooting occurred. State Police say the suspect was initially taken to a hospital for treatment of a life-threatening injury. She graduated from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and was news editor of its recognized newspaper, The Breeze.

A GUNMAN has shot dead a TV reporter and a photographer during a live news broadcast.

In the video from the Wednesday incident, reporter Alison Parker is interviewing Vicki Gardner of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce about tourism on Bridgewater Plaza in Franklin County.

The station then cut away to a startled news anchor back in the studio.

Jeffrey Marks, WDBJ’s president and general manager, said Flanagan had to be escorted by police out of the station when he was fired.

After Ward fell to the ground, his camera kept rolling, capturing a brief image of the shooter.

Flanagan worked at the station for approximately a year using the on-air name Bryce Williams before he was sacked.

“She is now recovering and is in stable condition”, according to Chris Turnbull, a spokesman for Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

Parker and Ward were conducting a live interview when they were ambushed and killed by a former station journalist. “Our hearts are broken and our sympathies go to the entire staff here, but also the parents and family of Adam Ward and Alison Parker, who were just out doing their job today”. The network says the fax was turned over to authorities and did not elaborate on its contents.

Marks said Williams was “looking out for people to say things that he would take offense too”. Parker was dating an anchor. “We wanted to get married”, he said. They later sent out Tweets that said they were trying to sort out the situation, but noted it did involve their crew. “She loved her family, her parents and her brother”, Hurst tweeted.