the question is where did he get the gun? how did he get the gun? the getaway after the shooting. he shoots the screw, multiple shots, perhapless more than a dozen and makes the getaway. an it now appears he rented a car to make that getaway and police try to track him, the cell phone pings on his cell. and several hours away on that interstate. they get on to his vehicle, they follow him. he drives off the road. and apparently shoots himself in that vehicle. the initial reports from police was that he had died. but he s in extremely critical condition with life threatening injuries. and the investigation continues into why he did this, where he got that rental car, where he got the gun and but workplace violence and anger appears to be the main motive. adam ward, 27-year-old, the videographer engaged to the
helicopter then flew him to a washington, d.c., hospital. we do not know his condition. i see on the screen it says critical condition. i have to be honest and say i don t know where that is coming from. that may be accurate, i just don t know that myself. the virginia state police say when they found him, he had a gunshot wound. the statement from virginia police say that when they approached the car, they found the driver suffering from a gunshot wound. a separate law enforcement official had told us that as the police approached the car, he shot himself. the virginia state police described the wound as life-threatening and then he was eventually loaded into that ambulance, taken to a waiting helicopter, we believe, and brought here to a washington, d.c., hospital which was the nearest trauma center to where this happened. he was arrested or apprehended a considerable distance from roanoke, closer to washington,
he hadn t tweeted under that account since august the 20th. but fresh tweets aimed at his former colleague, alison parker. but police were really already on his tail by then trying to figure out how to track down who had done this horrendous action on live television at 6:45 in the morning. right, thomas. well, look, law enforcement knew who he was right off the bat because when they looked at the camera video from adam ward and clint mentioned this earlier, they would have seen his face. there s only 50 employees at the station. and so they would have known who it was. and they would have started their efforts to find him. now, the drive time from where he shot himself to where he killed these two reporters is, you know, about four-hour drive. i ve made that drive on that highway many, many times on the way to washington, d.c., and back. it s about a four three and a half, four hour drive. so most of the time after the two murders, he was driving and
off the scene of the accident on i-66, virginia state troopers say he drove his car off the road. taking a shot at himself. trying to take his own life. before being apprehended. original reports before noon was that he was deceased because of the self-inflicted injury and then that was reversed saying there was a pulse. he was in critical condition. now our pete williams is saying that he has information, fresh information after vester flanagan was taken to a d.c. area hospital for treatment that he is now deceased. so again, we are getting this fresh information in that 41-year-old vester flanagan, the man who is the one that police were looking for after opening fire, two former colleagues of his shot and killed after the live shot they were on this morning, after the live shot they were on this morning, they were approached by flanagan and he opened fire.
it then came to light that one of the last acts that adam ward did was use the camera to capture the face of vester flanagan and there you see it right there as that camera is tipped on the ground giving us a different perspective and altered right side up and see the man holding the gun over the body of adam ward. police were able to quickly put this together. i.d. who the suspect, the person of interest was. able to find him later this morning along i-66. and that s when things all started to come to light that this person, vester flanagan, also known as bryce williams, is a former reporter, former colleague of those at wbdj, someone let go over two years ago. also has a spotty work history. coming up through local markets and having some issues at different television stations around the country. but the general manager and president of wbdj said they took a chance on bryce williams and brought him in to their family but they were unable to continue