network someday. but now she ll never get the chance. bret? sad story. peter doosy live on the scene, thank you. another very 21st century take on the tragedy involves the almost instantaneous reaction by supporters of gun control and other causes. these murders, though, come with an additional twist. chief legal correspondent shannon bream has that part of the story tonight. reporter: the suspect shooter, vester flanagan, alleged many times that he was a victim. he settled a 2000 lawsuit with the tallahassee tv station after claiming he suffered racism and was fired in retaliation for reporting it. a twitter account allegedly belonging to flanagan tweeted a claim today that one of the victims had made racist comments, and that the other had gone to human resources to report him. wdbj s general manager, flanagan s one-time boss. as a matter of fact, he did file a complaint and went to equal opportunity employment commission and they dismissed it
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it. both social media accounts have been suspended. the victims have been identified as 24-year-old reporter alison parker and her photographer, 27-year-old adam ward. it all happened just before 7:00 this morning when parker was conducting a live interview with a local chamber of commerce member, vicki gardner. now, we re only going to show you a portion of the video, and i warn you, it s very disturbing. this is our community and we want to come together. we want to share information that can help us grow and develop to provide a better experience. we re seeing tourism. we want the people that come here to say so right after that, that s when the shots rang out. vicki gardner, the woman being interviewed, was shot. she survived, rushed to the hospital and after surgery listed in stable condition. all of this hitting the wdbj family very hard. the station paying tribute to their lost colleagues on their facebook page. but within the last hour that station s general manager let h
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. he had been dismissed two years prior. soon africa he started tweeting about his act, uploading his own video of the shooting. he was tracked down in part through the use of a license plate reader. the police attempted to pull him over in northern virginia. he later crashed. officials indicating he may have shot himself in the head while driving and later died. prior to that, approximately two hours after the shooting, abc news received a 23-page fax.
the crime on social media. and then he killed himself. we have fox team coverage tonight. shannon bream looks at the inevitable political fallout that comes after such incidents. but we begin with correspondent peter deucy live tonight in moneta, virginia. hello, peter. reporter: hello, bret. just after sunrise this morning, here on the shores of smith mountain lake, two members of the wdbj 7 morning team were working hard when a former colleague with a gun executed them on live tv. good morning, allison. reporter: it started like any other wednesday. adam ward had a camera. and alison parker had a microphone. but behind them, vester lee flanagan had a gun that he used to murder both of them in cold blood live on the air. and his own camera that he used to record the ambush. back at the station it didn t take long for behind the scenes
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