TheRob 937 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I saw the videos. He stood there for what seemed like an eternity. The photog never saw it coming. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
n925tv 143 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 His Facebook account has just been terminated, thank god. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 517 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Thoughts, prayers and positive vibes being sent to all affected. I know I could go on my anti gun rants, and as much as I want to, I will remain silent. Life is precious. We are never guaranteed tomorrow. This is America. 2015. We are better than this. -- Matt Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianpr3 178 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 show us 1 under suspect is down Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skbl17 188 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 This is beyond horrible. Incomprehensible. It's hard to come up with words to describe something as horrific as this. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 829 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 The suspected shooter, Vester Lee Flanagan, was a former weekend anchor at WNCT in Greenville, NC many, many years ago. Vester Flanagan also worked at WTOC in Savannah as well too.. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.L. Hughes 890 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Frightening doesn't begin to describe the video, and the more shocking thought, anyone watching WDBJ on-air or online could see it as it happened. Apparently, Vester Flanagan can briefly be seen holding and firing the gun as the camera Adam Ward was holding hit the ground. Vicki Gardner, the director of the Moneta Chamber of Commerce (whom Parker was interviewing shortly before the shooting happened), was hospitalized after being shot in the back and is in surgery. It's been reported by multiple sources, although it's unconfirmed, Flanagan may have shot himself on U.S. 66, near Front Royal, Virginia. http://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2015/08/26/reports-shots-disrupt-wdbj-live-shot/32389087/ Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1916 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 WHSV is more or less confirming it. The suspect is "no longer a threat". [MEDIA=twitter]636564402993504256[/MEDIA] EDIT: WDBJ is reporting the same [MEDIA=twitter]636565853249531904[/MEDIA] Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 829 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 from WXIA breaking news shooting suspect has killed himself Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I didn't want to look at that video, because it's way too horrific to watch. My heart and condolences to Alison, Adam and the management and staff of WDBJ 7 News. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1684 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Very sad. My thoughts are are with all of their families. NBC just broke in at noon reporting of the shooting and suspects death. I was surprised that the AM newscasts that I watched Today and CBS This Morning made no mention of the shooting. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5577 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Reports are now conflicting, the latest from WDBJ saying that the suspect is in very critical condition. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1916 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Suspect is NOT DEAD. WDBJ is reporting Virginia State Police have informed them he did shoot himself but he still has a pulse as is in "very critical condition". Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133212 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I can't even look. CNN in its 12pm ET hour so far has been running WDBJ live. This is just... way too sad. The suspect is also still alive, according to most recent reports. I am relieved to hear that other Schurz stations are doing something to offer relief to WDBJ employees. (That said, KWCH is not the closest station to WDBJ and I would have thought they would come from WSBT.) Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1684 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 CNN is simulcasting WDBJ's newscast. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColumbusNewsFan 217 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 First, Thank you TVNT Crew for looping me in on this tragic story. Second, I don't know what to say except the WDBJ team is in my prayers right now. Absolutely shocking and tragic. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1281 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 No words... I send my condolences to their families. Their deaths were senseless. Good Lord. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhratbrat 437 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 http://www.wdbj7.com/video/livestreaming Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.L. Hughes 890 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 For the sake of Parker and Ward's families, friends and significant others, he needs to survive so that he gets put on trial for what is murder in the first degree, which carries a life sentence in prison or the death penalty (which Virginia allows). Former Fox News correspondent Orlando Salinas, who worked with him when they were both at WDBJ, stated that Flanagan often complained about racial discrimination at the station (he even filed a lawsuit against a station in Tallahassee he worked at in 2000, on those grounds). According to a TVSpy report, Salinas said that Flanagan caused a “ruckus” on the day he left WDBJ in February 2013, berating people in the newsroom. Management had to move employees to another room in the station's offices for their protection, and police were called in and had him escorted from the studio. Considering his targets, that incident could be a possible cause for the shooting. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhratbrat 437 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 [MEDIA=twitter]636554348412207108[/MEDIA] WWE's BIG E Langston posted this talking about Ms Williams. RIP to her and to Mr. Ward Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skbl17 188 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 WDBJ GM Jeffrey Marks on the shooting suspect: "I'm not really sure whether I want him to live or die." Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
swillh2k2 203 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 WDBJ GM Jeffrey Marks on the shooting suspect: "I'm not really sure whether I want him to live or die." Expected him to take the coward's way out. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhratbrat 437 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11889661_10156048223605171_3723064752088572701_n.jpg?oh=1da480340d0312f55439e5ca0885b788&oe=567C41D4 Caption of the photo: Todd Schurz, president and CEO of Schurz Communications, issued the following statement regarding the shooting that took the lives of two WDBJ7 employees today: "We are heartbroken at the tragic and senseless loss of reporter Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward. At the time of their murders, they were involved in the most important aspect of journalism--telling the stories important to their local communities. Our focus now is to comfort their families and loved ones and to assist law enforcement in their investigation." Both WSBT 22 and WDBJ7 are properties of Schurz Communications. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1281 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 WDBJ GM Jeffrey Marks on the shooting suspect: "I'm not really sure whether I want him to live or die." I'm not sure if I wanted that thought either. But if he died, at least he wouldn't strike the station again, And if he still lived, I'd want him to die in jail or get the death penalty. Then I'd feel there's some closure. I just want him to suffer horribly for this. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToriElectra 292 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Some of my family members live in the Roanoke area, and I was hoping they would be safe (they live in a remote suburb, next door to WDBJ's Robin Reed, as a matter of fact). I learned via WCBS 880- they've broadcasted CBS News Special Reports throughout the morning. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14599-breaking-wdbj-reporter-and-photog-shot-and-killed/page/2/#findComment-133226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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