Them last year, she was 24. Adam word had only recently become a cameraman, she was 27. The gunman has been identified as 41yearold vester flanagan. He was a former employee of the station. He led police on a fourhour manhunt before shooting himself. Police say evidence suggests flanagan planned the attack. They say he sent a fax to a major u. S. Tv network and posted his own video of the shootings on social media. Those videos have since been removed. The shooting sense shock waves across the u. S. The white house stressed again the need for gun control. This is another example of gun violence that is becoming all too common in communities large and small all across the United States. Earnest said that only congress can have a tangible impact in reducing gun violence in the country. Japans Prime Minister has sent a message of congratulations to the International Space station. He praised them for using a robotic arm to talk the cargo ship. It was carrying food, equipment and other sup
Alison parker began working for them last year, she was 24. Adam word had only recently become a cameraman, she was 27. The gunman has been identified as 41yearold vester flanagan. He was a former employee of the station. He led police on a fourhour manhunt before shooting himself. Police say evidence suggests flanagan planned the attack. They say he sent a fax to a major u. S. Tv network and posted his own video of the shootings on social media. Those videos have since been removed. The shooting sense shock waves across the u. S. The white house stressed again the need for gun control. This is another example of gun violence that is becoming all too common in communities large and small all across the United States. Earnest said that only congress can have a tangible impact in reducing gun violence in the country. Japans Prime Minister has sent a message of congratulations to the International Space station. He praised them for using a robotic arm to talk the cargo ship. It was carryi
And, flipping out. A massive humpback whale weighing more than 80,000 pounds doing a backflip just feet from tourists. The incredibly rare jump caught on camera. Jump and good morning to our viewers in the west. Just a terrible situation unfolding right now in virginia. Near roanoke. That reporter and cameraman killed on live tv. A third person shot. It was a routine interview before 7 00 a. M. This morning. It was a very fluid situation. As you said, the shooter still on the loose. New details coming in moment by moment. Lets go to abcs Pierre Thomas who does have the latest. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning. Its unthinkable. A tv reporter and her cameraman fatally shot while people at home were watching. It started as a routine interview on television. Then shots rang out. [ gunfire ] wdbj in roanoke reporting that the reporter, allison parker, 24 years aold was killed along her cameraman, adam ward. She was everything, brightened up every room and no matter what was going
Bryce williams on the air. He died this afternoon after shooting himself. Lets begin team coverage. Reporter it was supposed to be a light morning assignment. Alison parker in front of the camera, photo journalist adam ward behind it when a gunman opened fire. 24yearold parker and 27yearold ward were killed as colleagues and viewers watched on tv. People behind us in the news room crying. Reporter Vicki Gardner seriously injured. Police zeroed in on Vester Flanagan aka Bryce Williams. Flanagan later died at the hospital from a selfinflicted gun shot wound. Flanagan called abc news and sent a letter explaining the Charleston Church shooting was his tipping point. Our investigators have a copy of it and its use in the course of this investigation will be continuing. Reporter parkers boyfriend, a wbdj anchor tweeted we were very much in love. We just moved in together. I am numb. Today her colleagues were going to celebrate a new job before the two moved away to start a new life together.
Broadcast center, this is abc7 news. We are all in a state of shock here. You can her people behind us in the news room crying. It is the day i lost the love of my life. A deadly shooting in virginia as cameras rolled. A president arer and photograph a reporter and photographer and third woman injured. The killer is a man who grew up in the bay area. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. He was known on air as bryce williams. He grew up in vallejo where his family still lives. We will have more on him in a moment. First his victims, alisof parker, a morning News Reporter and adam ward, a photographer at wdbj, the station where the gunman last worked until he was fired in 2013. Outside that tv station tonight, a tribute. Both beginning new chapters. Ward was engaged to a worker and today was his fiancees last day at work and the couple was moving to north carolina. , paer dated an parker dated an anchor at the station and says the two just moved in together. I told her that losing someone you lo