employees had been notified to give flanagan space to clean out his desk. once at his desk, flanagan attempted to reach the corporate ceo without success. at that point, the police arrived and escorted him from the building. on the way out, he handed a wooden cross to the news director who was at that time dan dennison and he said you ll need this. he also made a comment to adam ward as he left. the only context between wdbj 7 and flanagan after that were routine calls to hr about termination benefits. shortly there after, flanagan filed a complaint of harassment and discrimination with the equal opportunity employment commission. wdbj responded that his claims were unfounded and the eeoc denied the claim based on all the evidence we provided.
we do not know who the suspect or who the killer is. reporter alison parker, photojournalist adam ward both widely respected. each deeply in love and on the verge of beginning new lives with the ones they loved. we ll focus heavily tonight on those stories. we will also bring you new details about the killer who took his own life. what we won t be doing is turning this hour into his story. we ll be mentioning his name and showing his picture as little as possible. his stated motives and violent history matter giving him any further publicity even in death certainly does not. with that we begin with brian todd in this awful timeline. reporter: it s 6:45 a.m. wdbj reporter alison parker is giving a live interview. adam ward is photographing. then shots ring out. both parker and ward are hit as well as the woman being
i m trying to be there for my employees and be the public face of wdbj 7. let me ask you at the end about something that s in your head and heart. earlier you said you weren t really sure if you wanted the gunman to live or to die. now that we ve learned that he is, in fact, dead, how do you feel? well i got that out of my system. i said that on our news at noon today locally and i was saying that as much to the local community as i was saying to it myself. and to my fellow employees here. i was angry and upset and i believe in our justice system. i believe very much that it works most of the time. and i would have entrusted his fate to the justice system. but and he was coward. and it didn t matter to me what happened to him. no matter what, it wasn t going
shooting and memorialize their friends. we are following breaking news. news that has affected our wdbj family. our wdbj morning crew was live at smith mountain lake when shots were fired at 6:45. our general manager and wdbj 7 vice president jeff marks is here to tell us more about what happened. it is my very, very sad duty to report that we have determined, through the help of the police and our employees, that alison and adam died this morning shortly after 6:45 when the shots rang out. i cannot tell you how much they were loved. alison and adam, by the wdbj 7 team. killer has been identified as a former reporter of the station. his on air name was bryce williams.
i think everybody should he has to do what he has to do. i m just going to continue with my campaign. i m going to do what i believe i should be doing and he will have to decide what he should be doing. reporter: sources have said the vice president is likely to make his decision in the coming weeks in the run-up to the first democratic debate. miguel and alison. let s take a look at what is coming up on new day. chris cuomo joins us live from roanoke where the two reporters were viciously shot and killed. chris. good morning, alison, miguel. we are in front of wdbj. a cnn affiliate. there is a growing memorial and sense of loss for the journalists killed. executed, really, on live tv. this growing sense of loss here is deepening for this community for this news family. that is what they are calling the station here. for the families of those who