phone with me en route to that area of virginia. hallie, so much at play here with them as people. alison parker, romantically involved with her co-worker, who s doing one of the newscasts there. said we were almost together no nine months. it was the best nine months of our lives. we wanted to get married . we had just celebrated her 24th birthday. she was the most radiant woman i ever met and for some reason she loved me back. she loved her family, her parents and her brother. i m comforted by everybody here at wdbj. we are a family. she worked with adam every day, they are a team. i am heart broken for his fiancee. hallie, just heart-wrenching stuff. yeah, it is. and you re talking about adam s fiancee, morning show producer. she apparently was in the control room when this shooting unfolded live on their morning show. she was set to leave for a new job in charlotte the very next
1:00 p.m. eastern time, police news conference. we are going to go to a short break as authorities seem to be closer and closer to maybe an arrest may be imminent. as we go to break, i want to take you to the moments earlier this morning, around 7:00 in the morning, when the station wdbj made the announcement as they were confirmed that their two employees had, indeed, died. it is my very, very sad duty to report that we have determined, through the help of the police and our own employees, that alison and adam died this morning shortly after 6:45 when the shots rang out. we do not know the motive. we do not know who the suspect or who the killer is. we do know that the franklin county sheriff, i just got off
and adam ward were natives of this area? i m alison parker, photojournalists adam ward and i are putting our final touches on our special report. reporter: allison was a graduate of martinsville high school and james madison university. she loved the outdoors. in salem, adam ward, news 7 sports. reporter: adam attended salem high school where he played football. he was a virginia tech graduate around a huge hokeys fan. and both of them worked here as interns at wdbj 7 before they signed on as employees alison worked in north carolina before she returned to wdbj 7 in 2014. adam had been here for four years, first as an employee of our production department, more recently as a photographer and news. and and allison within working together a lilt over a year, covering everything from community events to breaking news. and they did it well. and both of them had fallen in love with co-workers.
see it there in the center of your screen, veered off the road. apparently virginia state police spotted that vehicle that was headed eastbound on i-66. the imagiemergency traffic ligh were activated. when the troopers initiated a traffic stop, the suspect refused, sped away and minutes later crashed off to the side of the road. virginia state police say then flanagan shot himself. they believed it to be life-threatening injuries. he was taken off, and we had video of that earlier, video of him on a stretcher being loaded into the back of an ambulance. our pete williams saying that he was going to be moved he had updated information to a hospital closer to washington, d.c. flanagan was wanted after taking aim and opening fire on live television this morning after two of his colleagues for roanoke tv station wdbj, were on an early morning live shot interview with the chamber of commerce, and they were on the air at 6:45 a.m.
she left her parents, her family, her brother. i m kmfrcomforted by all the pe at wdbj 7. she worked with adam every day. they were a team. she was our morning show producer. there we show a picture of adam that he shared with social media. adam s fiancee was a producer on the morning broadcast. and what we are told, and this comes from the actual wdbj information that they have been sharing with their audience all morning long, adam was to be married in the near future with his fiancee who was the producer at the morning broadcast. the producer was apparently in the control room at 6:45 this morning when the gunshots were heard, and this last scene was seen throughout the area where this station transmits. so she was witnessing what was