As difficult and unhappy. We dismissed him. And he did not take that well. We had to call the police to escort him from the building. Reporter a person identifying himself as flanagan faxed a manifesto to abc news alluding to a possible motive for the violence. He refers to the Charleston Church shooting. It reads in part, quote, the Church Shooting was the Tipping Point but my anger has been building. Ive been a human powder keg for a while, waiting to go boom. Chilling words. This hits the station closely. He was dating the 6 00 p. M. Anchor. Ward was engaged to morning producer who watched what happened from the control room. Ernie for those of us in this industry, we really felt the pain of what went on there. Such a tragedy. We couldnt believe it. Talking about it all day. I was watching your story. The woman that was interviewed when this tragedy took place, she was also shot. Whats her condition . Reporter she was. If theres any bright light to whats happened, Vicki Gardner with
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
List. Right now a man hunt is on for the man who shot and killed a local News Reporter and photographer live on the air near roanoke. The governor says an arrest is imminent and that police are closing in on the suspect on i64. The shooting happened in virginia in flank lin county. That is about four hours from d. C. Now, the news crew was at a Shopping Center this morning. These are pictures from their reporting. They were doing a report on tourism for their morning show. Wdvj reporter Allison Parker was doing a live interview, 6 45 this morning. That is allison. He was talking to a woman from the local chamber of commerce when the man came up and started shooting her and adam ward, the camera man. They talked about how the tragedy played out on live information. Someone with a gun, we believe it was a man, barged into where they were and fired several shots, six or seven, it sounds like. We heard screaming. And then we heard nothing. And the camera fell. After the shooting, the camer
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
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