kill was set in motion after the killings in charleston, south carolina earlier this summer. why did i do it? i put down a deposit for a gun on 6-19-15, the church shooting in charleston happened on 6-17-15. later, he write, admiration for the south korean national mass killer responsible for the killings at virginia tech and the columbine high school killers. his final tweet, i filmed the shooting, see facebook. so deeply troubling. drew griffin joins us now. the shooter specifically targeted those two young journalists. any sense at this point why? reporter: the general manager of that station really is puzzled by that why he didn t come after management? why these two? but we do know from internal document from that station, from a lawsuit, john, that adam ward, the photographer who was killed today was in the newsroom february 1st, 2013, when the shooter threw a tantrum upon his
the photographer who was killed today was in the newsroom february 1st, 2013, when the shooter threw a tantrum upon his firing and adam ward the photographer was filming the scene. and on the way out the shooter addressed him saying you need to lose your big gut and then he flipped his finger off at the camera. that s the only contact we know between those two but, again, that was two years ago and there s absolutely no record that this shooter knew or even met alison parker. all right, drew, thank you so much. just moments ago we got reaction from the gunman s family. a statement given to our affiliate in san francisco, the misspellings you see are on the original. it is with heavy hearts and deep sadness it read that we express our deepest condolences to the family of alison parker and adam ward. we re also praying for the recovery of vicki gardner.