and she had she packed in a great life in 24 years. reporter: this morning family members in a community are left reeling, grieving the loss of a newly engaged cameraman and an aspiring anchor with so much life left to live. my heart is broken. i want to try and do something that will change that and make her life do something meaningful for her life so this doesn t happen to someone else again. reporter: colleagues say 27-year-old adam ward and 24-year-old alison parker of affiliate wdbj were unfailingly positive, relentlessly hard working, and never shied away from a story. adadam, come out from in fro of the camera. reporter: they were interns at the station, eventually becoming a team as staff reporter and photographer for the morning show. i am a virginia girl. she had aspirations of being
thank you for that. the shooter s family, by the way, they are also offering their sympathies. here is part of the statement read by a family friend in the state of california. it is with heavy hearts and deep sadness we express our deepest condolences to the families of alison parker and adam ward. we are also praying for the recovery of vickie gardner. our thoughts and prayers at this time are with the victims families and with wdbj television station family. flanagan felled wronged by a lot of people before he decided to resort to the bloodshed that he did. and before he did that, he filed lawsuits. our drew griffin has his hands on court documents, and he s going to sort out some of the claims that this man made from the actual facts on the ground next. big day?
and this is the memorial that is growing outside of wdbj station here. you see this tree with two ribbons, one each for alison parker and adam ward. flowers, notes, cards dropped off here throughout the day. someone just dropped off more flowers. there s a camera, a virginia tech sweatshirt. adam ward was a huge fan of virginia tech. a note that calls them the bright, shining stars who believed in this community, ashleigh, and one other person who really believed in this community, vic any gardner, the executive director of the community of moneta. she was shot in the back. we re told she underwent emergency surgery and is in stable condition. her folks there at the chamber of commerce call her a bright, energetic visionary, and they are dedicated to standing with her throughout her recovery. ashleigh? victor blackwell reporting live for us.
quickly, 47 days ago takes us to around july 9. i m probably missing a day or two but even if i m missing a day or two it is certainly not two days after june 17, which was when that massacre happened in charleston, south carolina. and in his rambling letter to abc, he said i bought those guns two days after that murder because i just lost it. so clearly he s lying in that and who knows what else he s lying about, but he certainly did file a lot of legal paperwork and other lawsuits. he s filed a lot of things. much of it blaming other people for his problems in life, racial harassment is a claim that he made at this station. he even tweeted out in one of his tweets after killing alison parker that alison made racial comments. it turns out that alison was just an intern when this shooter worked at the station and in
a moment none of us will forget. it was yesterday around this time that we went live to alison parker and photojournalist adam ward out in the field. a story that was like so many others that they did all the time, reporting on our hometown. they were at bridgewater plaza to report on a happy event, the 50th anniversary of the lake, just a feature, and it was during a conversation with vickie gardner about another reason why we love living here when the peacefulness of our community was shattered. as we approach that moment we want to pause and reflect and share with you once again what made these two so special not just to us but all of our hometowns that wdbj serves. please join us in a moment of silence. on the left of your screen adam ward, 27 years old, and his partner, alison parker, 24 years old.