can t get to they would help us with. we re grateful for that. we are grateful to the families of these two victims who gave them to us so that they could do the job so well to make wdbj 7 so strong and our hearts go out to them as it does i m sure from every one of our viewers and from those at wdbj 7. i reflect on and the fact that this guy may have killed himself, may not have. and i m going to step out of my role as a former journalist and say i m not sure whether i want him to live or die. if he dies, he took the coward s way out. and if he live he is goes on trial and goes to prison for the rest of his life and in either and i presume that and i m speaking way out of turn but i think i m expressing what viewers think and what the co-workers of alison and adam think. if he lives, he s due due
martinsville henry county area that my family likes to go on. it s really thrilling, really exciting and can t wait to do it this summer. something viewers might not know about me is that i come from a family that absolutely loves the arts. my mom works for piedmont arts for martinsville. my dad was on broadway back in the day. i played trumpet and french horn in high school and continued to support theater events. you can see the entire interview, alison parker posted at gretawire.com. a lot of heavy, heavy hearts here at wdbj, the station that was shocked just after 6:00 a.m. today. we will continue it investigate every detail and why this senseless tragic shooting happened this morning and how vester lee flanagan knew to be at that location about 40 miles away early this morning. we ll have full team coverage and a lot more so
girl. you could hear this girl coming down the hallway. she is professional so much fun and so kind. i lost my dad back in january and she was one of the first people to do come with condolences that came to my home and brought food and comfort. that s just who she was. tonight, the community and the wdbj news family deals with extreme sadness, one woman shot, two of the tv station s young colleagues viciously murdered. journalist knee on gillary worked with alison when she was not so long ago. deon goes on the record from augusta, georgia. you assume like everybody else you have a broken heart tonight. yeah, good evening to you, greta. it s fully hitting me. i have been talking to former co-workers from when i worked in harrisonburg who
they were loved. they were positive people. they never shied away from an assignment. if you asked them to work late, they did it. if you you didn t even have to ask them. and you re never prepared for this, and you just pray every day that your people are going to be safe, and we are grateful to the families of these two victims who gave them to us so that they could do their job and do the job so well to make wdbj 7 so strong, and our hearts go out to them as it does, i m sure, from every one of our shoes and from those at wdbj 7. that was the general manager, and now i have someone here who worked at this tv station. knew both of these young journalists and also apparently knew the gunman. he s lorelle reynolds who joins me now. first of all, i m so sorry for what happened. i was a report er in virginia ad
affiliate in roanoke. the two journalists murdered this morning worked for and their latest on the coverage regarding the suspect, bryce williams was his tv name. off of air he was known as vester flanagan. conflicting reports about whether or not he in fact did kill himself. that s his image right there. so for a reset, if you re just joining us now, around 6:45 a.m. this morning, two local journalists, a reporter and a cameraman, were killed and now it seems they were killed by a disgruntled ex-employee of that station, wdbj, down there in roanoke. that individual, the suspect, then uploaded videos of himself carrying out this horrific act to social media. said that he had done this because he was disgruntled, of things that had occurred to him at the station. he was angry at these two local journalists. there are conflicting reports about whether or not he was leading authorities on some sort of car chase. we then had federal officials