Good evening. Im George Stephanopoulos in for david tonight. We want to get right to that deadly shooting in virginia. A gunman targeting two young journalists with cameras rolling, theirs and his. Two journalists killed, another victim expect to survive. The gunman killed himself after a police chase. Well never know why he set out not just to murder but to broadcast the crime on live tv and by filming it himself for social media. Something we wrestled with today, whether to grant the gunman his last wish by playing his video. We will not. Our Team Coverage starts with jim avila. Reporter a live tv interview on local tourism fatally interpreted. No warnings, just bullets followed by screams. After the victims fall, the shooters image briefly captured on camera before he flees. The anchor back in the studio is stunned. I heard a pow, pow, pow and it did not register that it was gunshots. It probably should have but shes doing a little feature at the at the lake. Reporter in the control
Good evening. Im George Stephanopoulos in for david tonight. We want to get right to that deadly shooting in virginia. A gunman targeting two young journalists with cameras rolling, theirs and his. Two journalists killed, another victim expect to survive. The gunman killed himself after a police chase. Well never know why he set out not just to murder but to broadcast the crime on live tv and by filming it himself for social media. Something we wrestled with today, whether to grant the gunman his last wish by playing his video. We will not. Our Team Coverage starts with jim avila. Reporter a live tv interview on local tourism fatally interpreted. No warnings, just bullets followed by screams. After the victims fall, the shooters image briefly captured on camera before he flees. The anchor back in the studio is stunned. I heard a pow, pow, pow and it did not register that it was gunshots. It probably should have but shes doing a little feature at the at the lake. Reporter in the control
A gruesome ambush that unfolded around 6 45 a. M. This morning as wdbj, near the end of its morning newscast. The news crew was conducting an onair interview, something they do every morning, at a Shopping Center in moneta, outside of roanoke, when the gunman attacked, firing off, again, at least eight rounds that shooter was tracked to the north and was eventually found off of i66 in Fauquier County suffering from a gunshot wound. We have Live Team Coverage for you at both locations this evening. We begin with david culver and the latest from investigators in roanoke. David . Reporter jim behind me, you can see a very active scene several hours after that attack, as you mentioned, captured live on tv. This is the plaza, a scenic place that overlooked Smith Mountain lake. The sheriff, we just heard from him a short time ago, the sheriff in Franklin County, pointing out how close knit a community this s he recently done a similar live interview with the reporter Alison Parker and photog
In this area, they were part of our community. Reporter the woman they were interviewing, vicki gardner, rushed to the hospital, where she remains in stable condition. Parker and ward died. Colleagues at the roanoke cbs affiliate where they worked, devastated. Parker is described as an ambitious reporter. Anchor chris hurst tweeted, we were together almost nine months, it was the best nine months of our lives. We wanted to get married. We just celebrate 24erd 4th birthday. Ward was engaged to a producer at the station. They were set to move to charlotte, where his fiancee had just got an new job. As you saw in that story, the press conference has reporters from all over the nation, i want to show you here what is going on along the side of the road here. You have just as many reporters, dozens and dozens of reporters here, the one reporters not missing not here, missing at this house, wdvj 7, they are not out here and i turned to one of my colleagues at the local affiliate here in the
Parker and ward were shot and killed during a Live Television interview outdoor Shopping Mall near mow net at a, virginia this morning. The woman being interviewed also injured. She is out of surgery and in the hospital. The gunman former employee of the same roanoke tv station where the victims worked drove off from the scene before posting video of himself carrying out the killings on social media. He also apparently fax add manifesto explaining his motives to abc news. After chase the shooter drove off the road, officers found him with a self inflicted gunshot wound. He died at the hospital. We have Team Coverage of this developing story tonight. Chris oconnell looking what may have motivated the gunman we begin with dawn timmeney with the timeline of a morning we wont soon forget. Dawn . We certainly wont, lucy. Tonight we are learning someone claiming to be the shooter fax add 23 page manifesto to abc news which may explain his state of mind this morning. It was turned over to aut