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after emergency surgery. the gunman a former employee of the same roanoke tv station where the victims worked drove off from the scene and posted video of himself on social media killing parker and ward. he also faxed a multi page manifesto explaining his motives to abc network news. after a chase he drove off the road, officers found him with a self inflicted gunshot wound. he died at a hospital. we have team coverage tonight. chris o connell is looking into what may have motivated the gunman but we begin tonight with dawn timmeney for an inn in depth look at a morning that horrified americans everywhere. dawn? reporter: it s really hard to wrap your head around this, iain. to journalists just doing their jobs smiling, neither having any idea of the horror that is about to unfold. it was 6:45 this morning. reporter alison parker and her photographer adam ward of wdbjtv of roanoke, virginia, doing a live interview for their morning show. but today their story shat ....
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a brief high speed pursuit of flanagan followed. police finding him in his car with a self-inflicted gunshot. as i was air lifted to a hospital wdbj went back on the air at noon. 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. reporter: in a 23-page documented faxed to abc news, a man claiming to be flanagan said he had been discriminated against for being gay and motivated by a shooting at a historic black church in charleston. why did i do it? i put down a deposit for a gun on june 19th. i ve been a human powder keg for awhile, he wrote. just waiting to go boom. reporter: as the day surreal excruciating events settled. those closest began to mourn them including parker s boyfriend chris hurst. outside the apartment the couple had moved into together. i ll carry it with me for the rest of my life. she s made these past nine months i shared with her the best ti ....