Parker and Ward were a regular team, providing stories for the station’s “Mornin’ ” show on everything from breaking news to feature stories on subjects such as child abuse. He described himself as a “human powder keg” that was “just waiting to go BOOM!!!!” The fax also included admiration for the gunmen in mass killings at places such as Virginia Tech and Columbine High School. shooting that was part-manifesto, part-suicide note - calling himself a gay black man who had been mistreated by people of all races, and saying he bought the gun two days after nine black people were killed in a June 17 shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C.
He sent ABC’s newsroom a 23-page fax two hours after the 6:45 a.m.
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He used his insider’s knowledge of TV journalism against his victims - a 24-year-old reporter who was a rising star and a 27-year-old cameraman engaged to a producer who watched the slaughter live from the control room.įlanagan’s planning may have started weeks ago when, ABC News said, a man claiming to be Bryce Williams called repeatedly, saying he wanted to pitch a story and needed fax information. Wednesday’s on-air murders reverberated far from central Virginia because that’s just what the killer wanted - not just to avenge perceived wrongs, but to gain maximum, viral exposure. He later ran off a highway while being pursued hundreds of miles away and was captured he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He fled the scene but then posted his own 56-second video of the murders on Twitter and Facebook. That man, authorities said, was Flanagan - a former staffer who used the on-air name of Bryce Williams and was fired by WDBJ, a man who always was looking for reasons to take offense, colleagues recalled. Ward fell, too, and the camera he had been holding on his shoulder captured a fleeting image of the suspect holding a handgun. They saw Parker scream and run, and heard her crying “Oh, my God!” as she fell. TV viewers heard about the first eight of 15 shots.
He points the gun at Parker and then at Ward, but he waits patiently to shoot until he knows that Parker is on camera, so she will be gunned down on air. Vester Lee Flanagan’s video shows him approaching WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, gun in hand, as they conduct an interview. Hours later, he shared his own recording of the killing worldwide on social media. He planned it all so carefully - a choreographed execution of two former colleagues, broadcast live to a horrified TV audience. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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