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Lets tell you about the victims. 24yearold Allison Parker on the left, 27yearold adam ward on the right. The two reporting from a Shopping Center about 25 miles southeast of roanoke at the time of the shooting, doing a story about tourism. As for the suspect, you see him here, hes been identified as 41yearold vesterly flanagan ii. Hes in very Critical Condition following a self inflicted gunshot wound but he does have a pulse. He used to work at the same tv station under the name bryce williams. He grew up in the bay area. We have several reports on this breaking avny3st. B bob redell and Stephanie Chuang are tracking the local ties. Reporter a suspected gunman is in custody after shooting himself along the side of a road in Northern Virginia. Police say Vester Flanagan allegedly shot and killed a local Television News crew during a morning broadcast. The shooting happened live on cbs affiliate wbdj at 6 45 a. M. This is the broadcast right up to the point of the shooting. Killed in th
In this area, they were part of our community. Reporter the woman they were interviewing, vicki gardner, rushed to the hospital, where she remains in stable condition. Parker and ward died. Colleagues at the roanoke cbs affiliate where they worked, devastated. Parker is described as an ambitious reporter. Anchor chris hurst tweeted, we were together almost nine months, it was the best nine months of our lives. We wanted to get married. We just celebrate 24erd 4th birthday. Ward was engaged to a producer at the station. They were set to move to charlotte, where his fiancee had just got an new job. As you saw in that story, the press conference has reporters from all over the nation, i want to show you here what is going on along the side of the road here. You have just as many reporters, dozens and dozens of reporters here, the one reporters not missing not here, missing at this house, wdvj 7, they are not out here and i turned to one of my colleagues at the local affiliate here in the
Roanoke area. Well have more on their lives in just a minute. State police say they were able to track the alleged shooter up i81 where it hits i 66 which is where a trooper started following him. Bruce leshan picks up the story from his live location which is just off i66 near front royal. Bruce . Reporter yeah, lesli, you know, it was just minutes after troopers started following the troubled reporter that he crashed just the other side of these trees here. All right, guys. Hes got something in his right hand and he reached for something. Reporter the troopers knew that Vester Flanagan was armed and dangerous. His picture from the shooting scene had been flashed around the world. Not yielding. Going to call it as a pursuit call. Copy in pursuit now, subject did not stop. Reporter the pursuit did not last long. 104, shots fired. Comb shots fired. Reporter within minimum copy shots fired. Reporter within minutes troopers heard a gunshot and a crash, although it is still not clear in wh
Weeks ago. Reporter police say the man who opened fire on them. Vester lee flanagan also knew them. He was recently fired from the wdbj. The gentleman thinks that things tran spired and spiraling out of control. Reporter after the shooting flanagan fled the scene. In the aftermath he posted a video of the shooting. Police found his car at the roanoke airport. Flanagan then left the airport in a Chevrolet Sonic that he rented earlier in the month. Reporter flanagan fled north on i81 and then onto i 66 where a state trooper located him in Northern Virginia Fauquier County through a license plate reader. In your view how instrumental were the license plate readers in catching the suspect . License plate preceders are a great tool. The state police threw several others throughout the state and it helps. Reporter and that is what identified flanagans vehicle. When a state trooper tried to pull him over, he refused and police say he shot himself right there on i66. Now as far as the other pe