live shot for their early morning show. and that s when flanagan walked up on them, actually shot video of what he was doing from a first-person perspective, and opened fire on his former colleagues. 24-year-old alison parker and the videographer, 27-year-old adam ward. my colleague, frances rivera, is following the reaction we ve been witnessing on social media and how pervasive this has been, frances, because that s how flanagan that s what flanagan used to get his message out, especially that chilling video. the live tweeting, we did hear from hundreds and thousands of people on social media reacting to this shooting. right now 5400 tweets per hour on #virginia and #virginiashooting of the all those hash tags and others, many have been sharing their condolenc condolences. senator tim kaine tweeted this about the tragedy in his home state saying heartbroken by the
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he stalked them, walked up on their shot and then opened fire. what s the most disturbing part about all of this is the fact that before being captured, before running himself off the road and taking a shot at himself trying to end his own life, he updated his social media accounts through his reporter name, bryce williams, and he updated five different tweets. they were about the individuals that he fired upon, which are alison parker, 24 years old, who is deceased. the videographer, 27-year-old adam ward, who is also deceased. saying different disparaging things about them. and then in his fifth tweet saying i filmed the shooting. see facebook. now two different video images then appear in his timeline on twitter. the first being 20 seconds long and this is where flanagan films himself, a first-person perspective, walking down the long wooden deck to where the live shot was taking place.
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up through sort of that local news environment. both of them as has been pointed out by their colleagues at that television station in roanoke, wdbj, both of them just out there doing their jobs this morning. yeah, doing their job and this former employee, vester flanagan, also known as bryce williams, former reporter at this station, posted videos online. a first-person perspective. hallie, it s just chilling the images that we were able to see. we are not going to be showing those images. he communicated those via facebook and twitter, also communicating potentially reasons why he felt in his own mind justified in doing this. but it is still just heart wrenching when you see this, especially knowing that these are two kids that have come up through the virginia schools in salem and also i know alison went to jmu, adam going to virginia tech. their families may have been watching this. so we want to be very sensitive to just exactly what we re
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