sheriff s officials will brief us on what took this morning. 6:45 a.m. in the morning local television in roanoke, station wdbj, a reporter, 24-year-old alison parker, interviewing a chamber of commerce member, her videographer, adam ward, 27 years old, shooting the whole thing when someone walked upon them and opened fire. all of this happened on live television. it cut back to the anchor in the station and unsure, stunned. what she had just witnessed, didn t compute she had seen two fellow colleagues assassinated on live television. the third person, the woman you see there on the right-hand side of the screen is named vicki gardner. she was also wounded, injured in this gun fire. and she was taken, rushed to the hospital. she is survived after surgery. alison parker, 24-year-old, did not survive. adam ward, 27, did not survive.
many asking the basic question why? i was though bring in mary ellen o toole. and also the author of the book the will to kill masse sense of senseless murder. let me make clear, we don t want to put more focus than we absolutely have to on this killer to give him the attention he so obviously sought for whatever deranged reasons he has, but it is important to understand if there were signs that could have been seen, if there was something that could have been done, so this man obviously had a problem with this station wdbj. he was fired, he was disgruntled, at one point escorted from the building. they had security locking down the building the day that he left. that doesn t seem normal. that seems like something beyond just a disgrunt you would employee. it certainly did.