been harmed. one comes to mind who was killed by a stalker. that s a possible scenario. the other would be it was simply a crazed, random violent gunman who decided it s live television, i think i ll open fire. it s horrific. megyn: it s affecting wdbj7. we want to go to rick leventhal. reporter: we don t have a lot of new information at this hour. these two people, allison parker and her photographer adam world were doing a live shot in moneta, virginia when a gunman opened fire and killed them both. we don t have a lot of other
the shots rang out. we do not know the motive. we do not know who the suspect or who the killer is. heather: but apparently that has now changed. we continue to follow breaking developments here on the shooting that happened in southwest virginia live on television. the governor, now saying that the suspect is known and there is pursuit underway right now. that is possibly an image of him, from the live broadcast, that was captured. being told that he is a former disgruntled employee. so apparently at this point they do know who he is. they know where he is. and they are in pursuit. we want to bring in, one of our experts, mary ellen o toole. she canned talk to us a little bit more where we stand at this hour in the investigation. we learned a lot, as this unfolded we learned a lot very
realize that he is going to either try to shoot them or try to get the law enforcement to shoot him. heather: probably why the slow pursuit. we don t know what is in his head right now or what he is planning, but we do know what he did allegedly this morning around 6:45 this morning because it was on live television. fired eight shots and killed these two people. also, we re being told that the photographer was shot first. and then the reporter there on the scene. does that tell you anything more about a possible motive, if you were profiling this situation? i actually am surprised that the photographer was shot first. and, i would have expected the woman reporter to have been shot first. so that may suggest that the camera person was the victim, was the targeted victim. and they will have to look at that it also could be because the offender is not a good shot. but they want to also look at who suffered the most damage,
he is almost, getting a blow by blow description from law enforcement saying that they have the license number, they re behind him. the suspect who in a car, they re chasing him at this hour. heather: i keep thinking about all the individuals there who were watching this unfold live on television this morning at 6:45 in the morning. kids getting ready to head to school. standing there with their parents, people eating breakfast. this happens. these two individuals have close ties to that community. they weren t just working there at that television station. alison, she lived most of her life there in virginia and she graduated from james madison university and then you had adam ward, he graduated from virginia tech. so, you would assume that they have friend possibly family who were watching this unfold. and then of course all the individuals who worked with them back at the television station itself. and then, to find out right now that it was possibly a former
they want to know if a recent news story alison reported on got this person upset. then the other thing, what are some of the family relationships? i understand that alison and adam were even gained. was there someone else in the background who didn t like that? as investigators we are trying to figure all these questions out trying to determine who these person or persons are. gregg: we are getting different information, they were even gained but not to each other but to other people. that stand in contrast to what the general manager said in his statement on television. he said they were in love. we assumed that meant to each other. but if our information is correct they were engaged to other people.