after the murders live on television and surreal twist of flanagan using his on air name bryce williams was sending out these tweets and facebook posts as he fled north from roanoke. among the social media posts was the video that we re not showing of the shooting from his perspective, and apparently those social media posts helped law enforcement figure out exactly where he was. they were tracking his cell phone. the virginia state police say that this is how the pursuit ended around 11:30 this morning. state troopers saw his gray car headed eastbound on interstate 66, far north of the roanoke region, heading towards the washington, d.c. area. troopers turned on their emergency lights to pull him over, but he fled. minutes later the vehicle ran off the road and crashed and when troopers found him they found that he had shot himself. he s now being treated for life-threatening wounds, brooke, and we re watching that closely right now. evan perez, thank you. i want to ask everyone to
who is a former employee of wdbj. he was fired about a year ago, not sure why. but his on-air name at the time when he was a reporter for the station was bryce williams. so he is being sought in connection with the shooting. right now, the fbi, u.s. marshals, atf are all looking for vester l. flanagan. they believe he is driving a 2009 gray mustang. again, they are looking for him in connection with the shooting but a spokesperson for the augusta county virginia sheriff s office stopped short of calling him a suspect. sources i ve been speaking with say at this point they believe that flanagan is still in the virginia area. so the manhunt is focuseded in the virginia area. we know the shooting of 24-year-old alison parker, 27-year-old adam ward, happened this morning at around 6:45 a.m. right near roanoke, virginia. again, officials looking for this former employee of that station in the virginia area as we speak.
gunman, the apparent shooter posting videos under the name of bryce williams, that s an on-air name that a man named vester flanagan used to use before he was fired from that very same station under uncomfortable circumstances. he was looked at as a disgrun e disgruntl disgruntled employee and whomever made those posts under the name of this disgruntled employee showed an image of a hand holding a gun and effective ly filming execution style the killing of these two journalists and the serious injury of the third. i want to bring in my colleague nancy grace. nancy, before we learned that vester flanagan, after having shot himself, had been apprehended, we thought that he had shot himself dead and he is not dead. he is in critical condition. this is a double murder execution style. the video clearly shows whomever
you ve seen this? no, because i was just notified about it. remember, of course, that people can use other people s names in tweeting things. but considering that s unlikely, i think the police are focused on that one individual. and without question it we need to say that we do not have any confirmation at this point, at this early stage that it is this person posting under his name but it s distressful what we re witnessing on this video. and the tweets with alison and adam, are you aware he had those issues with those two employees who were on that live shot this morn in morning? we have no indication of
there s so many pictures he posted including testing a video device, either a gopro or camera some kind that he was testing the last few days. he even says in some of his tweets and facebook posts that he was testing it so this is all something now that investigators will look to put a finer point on what motive caused him to carry out this shooting, ashleigh. i want to bring nancy grace back in. nancy, that s phenomenal information that they came upon him. they re calling him a suspect but in other regards they re saying the suspect is vester flanagan, a.k.a. bryce williams. there s a lot of evidence that s unravelled in front of our eyes. there is the video postings under the name of bryce williams. there is the video screen shot that the dying cameraman captured before that camera went off. how powerful is this going to be