opportunity, as difficult as it is for him to let people know what was lost and in his opinion let them know why things were lost, and the job then becomes for us obviously, carol, in all of these cases, and there are so many, to create an urgency through an intimacy with those who are lost, in this case alison and adam and her boyfriend, chris hurst, is a talented young anchor here at d wdbj and he talked to us about the love of his life. our love story i think is just like adam and melissa s, and real quick adam was the best boyfriend and fiance i could ever imagine, way better than me. his spontaneity to show his love. going the extra mile to prove his love to melissa was something i have never seen before and the way he proposed to her was elaborate and well executed and they were going to be a wonderful married couple. reporter: what did he do? he set it up so that she was exactly where they wanted to be,
it is a massive manhunts that under way right now as one official i spoke with today said they are throwing all assets, all resources toward this investigationright now. so much going on. so many different parts moving right now. the important thing is this picture of this man right here, as pamela s been laying out. this is a person that authorities want to speak with. they are not calling this man, vester flanagan also known on air as bryce williams, former report of wdbj, not calling him a suspect at least at this point. this is someone they do want to speak with. do we have drew griffin? let me go over to drew who has more information on vester flanagan s background? what more do we know about this man? reporter: i m on the phone, kate, because i m trying to determine a little bit more information that my solidify some of the information. but this is a 41-year-old man, again, not a suspect at this time, just a person of interest. and some of the explanation for his name change,
the shooting, vester flanagan, former employee of the station who had been fired. kate? a lot we have to be careful on this, pamela. you can check me on this. alexandra is still here as well. we have two things going on at the moment. we have the image here of the suspect. this was the last image captured on the camera of adam ward after he was shot and killed. this is the man that police are looking for possibly connected possibly the same person but right now. also pursuing a man named vester flanagan, a former wdbj employee. alexandra, to bring this all together, this not only played out on live tv, the general manager of the station then had the horrible was put in the horrible position of needing to come forward to talk about this. let me stop myself this is a picture, i m told, och vester l. flanagan, the former employee of wdbj.
wd wdbj. he used the name bryce williams when he was on the air and overnight he fax add 23 page document to abc news. there is no word yet on the contents. abc says it has shared that with police. a twitter account under the name bryce williams posted videos of the deadly attack on this news crew within the past hour. i want to take you to wd wdbj s live news broadcast. the equal employment opportunity commission dismissed the claim out of hand and and that was that. so we have an unhappy former employee. but this happens. and usually they move on. sometimes they re not suited for the work and they move on, get a
we re continuing to follow breaking news at this very hour. a lot of very troubling details coming in following the shooting deaths the shooting attack this morning outside roanoke, virginia. of a local tv reporter, local tv photographer and a member of the chamber of commerce there. the reporter and photographer right there, they are dead. the woman they were interviewing, a member of the chamber of commerce, her name is vicki gardner. she was shot in the back and she is in surgery the last we were told. the latest very troubling details coming forward are the person has to do with the social media account of the man that authorities want to speak with. his name is vester flanagan. he is known he was known on air as bryce williams. he s a former employee, former reporter with wdbj, the very local station that we re talking