of alison parker and add am ward and they had done a number of broadcasts over the years and we re saddened today. miss gardner was broke to the hospital this morning by hospital and is currently in stable condition. i don t have any further information at this point in time, but i would encourage you to check back with us as we get further along in the situation. thank you. would you say anything about the nature of her injury? unfortunately, i can t. i don t have that information right now. okay. just wanted to make sure we heard from him before we pull away from this. really the headline other than such a tremendous loss in this community, head line is that this gunman, bryce williams is what he went by on air, legal name vester flanagan, 41 years of age, i m sorry, i m hearing a voice in my ear. would you like me to go back there. i m going to continue until i m
on the original viewing on air, you could hear screams coming from vicky and we assume alison but certainly from vicky. these women were screaming. this was a different point and that is after the shooting started. so what we think, and i can tell you from watching and moving and not just the still shot, she is getting shot as you are watching that and you can hear the screams. it is disturbing. if you flip the switch and turn it from the advantage point of the shooter and look over the barrel of the gun it is chilling how someone could carry out murder and shoot it with a camera at the same time if in fact he didn t have help we have no idea if he did. but we have no reason to believe there was anybody else there but the shooter. let s bring in a former nypd
describes racial discomfort. he cites the charlton church shooting as a motivator and he says, like you said, that he was a powder keg. abc received this fax a couple hours after the shooting this morning and then received a phone call from him, at least someone who case this was bryce williams works called the newsroom and then hung up and at that point abc did hand the facts over to investigators but we know they are combing through it and have a copy of it and they may share more of it later today. i m told by a spokeswoman they are reviewing it and they have released some of the excerpts which show a very confused person. he committed these two heinous crimes early this morning, again, over live tv and gets into his rental car and drives up on 66, state trooper jonathan recognizes the license and flashes her lights on. he immediately sort of hab hazardly veers off the road and that s one of the crime scenes that we re now seeing. he apparently turned the gun on
approximately 1:30 p.m. today the suspect from this incident, the shooting, died at fairfax and nova hospital in northern virginia as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. i want to express my condolences to wdbj 7 tv for their loss this morning. we know this has been a very difficult situation to manage professionally and personally, and we sincerely appreciate their cooperation and assistance with the ongoing investigation and our search efforts. we are keeping miss vicky gardner with the smith mount lake regional chamber of comerrs in our thoughts and prayers as she continues to undergo treatment for injuries sustained in the shooting. also want to thank the residents
were loved. following that update from the general manager of the station, we heard from, as you just heard, the governor of the state confirmed that the individual that they are searching for at this hour is what s described as a disgruntled employee. this is camera footage, a still shot, if you will, of the individual, we believe, we are told, that police are pursuing right now. if you look closely there, he s dressed in what appears to be a black shirt. we re also hearing this is a dark top, dark blue shirt, and you see what is believed to be the weapon in his hand. another person was also injured in the shooting. she is vicky gardner, the manager of the local chamber of commerce. that was the woman you saw being interviewed by alison. right now she is in surgery. according to the information, the latest we ve received. multiple, state, and local agencies have joined in this investigation in the search for