the mike to sergeant rick garlidz with the virginia state police. thank you, sheriff. shortly before 11:30 a.m. this morning virginia state police trooper pam neff was on patrol he along interstate 66. her license plate reader lpr alerted to a license plate on a chevrolet sonic traveling east on 66. she followed the vehicle a short distance as troopers responded to assist her before she actived her lights. once the backup was there she )c activated emergency equipment and attempted to stop the vehicle. the driver of the sonic, vester flanagan, also known as bryce williams, refused to stop and sped away from the trooper. it was only a minute or two later when the sonic ran off the road into the median. when trooper neff approached the vehicle, she found flanagan suffering from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound. flanagan was flown from the scene to a nova fairfax hospital where he died at approximately 1:30 p.m. today. the virginia state police bureau of criminal investigation salem field office and our salem bureau field operations have been and will continue to assist the franklin county r!l$vsherif office with the investigation into shooter. sheriff. thank you very much, sergeant. i will try to entertain some questions that you may have at this point in time. we ll take a couple questions. yes, sir. reporter: how did the suspect know where the victims were? that is a question that we are looking into. did he know before this morning that they would be located at this remote location doing a broadcast. did he see it aired that morning, this morning, as many people were watching? we re looking into that matter,