welcome back, everybody. fluid developments waiting on the right-hand side of the screen the franklin county sheriff s office to have a press conference to update us on the investigation. on the left-hand side of the screen, these are aerial images, the scene earlier on i-66 as police were able to capture vester flanagan. also known as bryce williams. when he was a reporter for wdbj. flanagan is the person that was wanted by authorities after opening fire on his two former colleagues this morning, 6:45 a.m. as they were doing a live shot and they were taking this live shot from bridgewater plaza in virginia talking with a local member of the chamber of commerce. flanagan walked up on the two former colleagues from a position where he was shooting eater from a goproor an iphone. he uploaded two different videos
been outlining all morning. and detailing how they finally tracked him down. the license plate reader, a key piece here that the rental car he picked up at an airport as he was making his getaway, swapped out vehicles, made the getaway. a license plate reader tracked it, picked it up and they called in backup and then moved in at 11:30 in the morning trying to pull him over. he instead drove off an embankment into the median there and then pulled out a gun and took his own life. the sheriff confirming that the suspect flanagan did die this morning. so those seemed to be two of the newest and information that as last night the planning certainly was well under way and that a license plate reader used to track him. one other point the sheriff said, he themselves was watching this newscast this morning when this happened and he was
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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 of field operations have been and will continue to assist the franklin county sheriff s office with this investigation into the shooting. sheriff. thank you very much, sergeant. i will try to entertain some questions you may have at this point in time. i ll take a couple questions. yes, sir? how did the suspect know where the victims were? looked like he was planning it for sometime. that is a question that we re looking into. did he know before this morning that they would be located at this remote location doing a broadcast? did he see it air that morning? this morning. as many people were watching. we re looking into that matter trying to discover that. sheriff, why do you think the
great tool. the state police have several of them throughout the state and it helped. of course, i haven t talked to trooper neff, but it helped in this case to identify the vehicle. how instrumental was the [ inaudible ] i ve not reviewed the video. it s under investigation. what exactly led to you who this person was, or did you already have a suspicion? we were able to, from the investigation, once we were on scene and secured the scene, we were able to develop mr. plan gan mr. flanagan as a potential suspect and went from there. what was sent to abc news, was that sent yesterday? something they received this morning. have you had an opportunity to speak to the general manager? yes, what was the question again? did you have an opportunity to speak to the staff, and how