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WDBJ Shooting: Alison Parker Killed

A gunman shot and killed two journalists during a live television interview at Bridgewater Plaza in Roanoke, Virginia. Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27 died from gunshot wounds while interviewing Vicki Gardner, the executive director of the local chamber of commerce. Gardner was also shot but survived. The shooter was identified as Vester Lee Flanagan II, a former employee of WDBJ7 who used the on-air name Bryce Williams. After fleeing the scene, police pursued Flanagan on the interstate until his car swerved off the road. He was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and died at the hospital.

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WDBJ Shooting: Alison Parker Killed

A gunman shot and killed two journalists during a live television interview at Bridgewater Plaza in Roanoke, Virginia. Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27 died from gunshot wounds while interviewing Vicki Gardner, the executive director of the local chamber of commerce. Gardner was also shot but survived. The shooter was identified as Vester Lee Flanagan II, a former employee of WDBJ7 who used the on-air name Bryce Williams. After fleeing the scene, police pursued Flanagan on the interstate until his car swerved off the road. He was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and died at the hospital.

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Shooting at WDBJ kills two, injures one

By Michal Antonov
August 26, 2015

ROANOKE, Va. At 6:45 a.m. a man shot a WDBJ news team during a live
interview at Bridgewater Plaza at Smith Mountain Lake.

The victims were Alison Parker, 24, and photojournalist Adam Ward, 27. They
were interviewing Vicki Gardner, executive director of the local chamber of
commerce, when they were attacked by the gunman.

Parker died from gunshot wounds to her head and chest, and Ward died from
shots to his head and torso. Gardner was shot in the back but was
immediately taken to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital where she is
currently being treated for her wounds.

WDBJ staff reviewed the footage and identified the shooter as 41-year-old
Vester Lee Flanagan II. Flanagan was a former employee at WDBJ7, known
on-air as Bryce Williams.

Shortly before 11 a.m., Roanoke City Police Department located Flanagans


2009 Ford Mustang at the Roanoke Regional Airport. Flanagan left the airport
in a rented Chevrolet Sonic.

Police pursued him going north on Interstate-81 with caution, given that he
was still armed. A state trooper spotted the car after it turned east on
Interstate-66 and tried to pull him over.

He refused to stop and sped away, said Sgt. Rick Garletts of the State
Police. A minute or two later, the car swerved off the road.

Flanagan was found with a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to the
hospital, where he was pronounced dead two hours later.

At 8:23 a.m. after the shooting, Flanagan faxed ABC News headquarters a
23-page document about the incident. The investigators now have a copy of
it and will use it in the investigation.

We are still piecing together the timeline of events leading up to this


morning shooting, said Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton.

The incident was ruled as a murder-suicide and the investigation is ongoing.

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