sorry. thank you so much for hopping on the phone with me for a couple of minutes. i really appreciate it, and add am ward was the cameraman. he attended virginia tech, 27 years of age. alison parker just 24 years young. she went to jmu, james madison university, both grew up in the area, worked together and were a team each and every morning waking up very, very early to get the news on. wdbj reflects on the friendship these two had and the stunning talent of both alison and add am. alison was smart and ambitious. adam was a capable photographer who would go the extra mile to get the job done and they had a lot in common. they worked together every morning. i wanted to go through a sleep study to see if my job impacts how i snooze. adam and i work the same early morning shift but have completely different sleep schedules. alison parker and add am ward were natives of this area. hey, everyone, i m alison parker and photo journalist adam
this was supposed to be probably a fun story, a positive story, at least an informative story about commerce and tourism. they were out there doing an interview. we watched the video so that you don t have to. we re not playing that video, as you heard drew griffin say but we did watch it. it s horrifying because you ll see the gunman as he lingers, almost touching the photographer who has his back to the gunman. you can see this young woman. alison parker, 24 years old and conducting this interview and is listening to what vicky gardner is saying. there is no warning that this gunman is getting ready to fire. all you see is her reacting to the shots that are fired and you hear them six, seven, possibly eight shots that were fired in rapid succession and you hear her screaming. this is a 24-year-old woman, brooke. her boyfriend is an anchor at the station and he has unloaded heartbreaking tweets today. when you talk about loved ones who are watching in this community because these are
and found him leaving. he got about 150 miles away. taken to social media, had sent a manifesto out already and as you saw from what his activity was on social media, we re not saying he was ill, remains to be scene but he was certainly of very evil intent here. when they finally came upon him. he ran off the road and tried to kill himself and eventually succeeded later on from that from his injuries. the motivation teams to be just a disgruntled person who had gone bad on life and bad on others, who represented the best of the field that he failed that, and one interesting note for you, brooke, that we learned here. adam ward, young man, started at virginia tech in 2007. that s the year of the virginia tech massacre, 32 people losing their live. the gunman today referred to the gunman in that shooting, said he revered him, that he was something that he idolized, he looked up to as a symbol of his