Virginia killings: suspect a "powder keg" of anger
- 9 years ago
Vigils have been held for the two television journalists shot dead during a live broadcast in Virginia.
The reporters were killed as they interviewed a woman who was also wounded in the attack allegedly carried out by a disgruntled former employee of the local TV station.
You don’t expect something like this to happen, a mass shooting like this to happen in your community. It really just hit home. I feel like I knew Alison personally even though I only saw her on TV but she always brighten out my morning watching her on WDBJ-7,” said Moneta resident Dalton Lucas.
The journalists shot dead were reporter Alison Parker, 24 and cameraman Adam Ward, 27.
The gunman, 41-year old Vester Flanagan, is said to have posted video on social networks of the fatal incident.
Hours after the shooting he sent a 23-page fax to the ABC network in which he claimed to have suffered racism, homophobia and bullying at work for being a gay black man.
Flanagan said the shooting was sparked by the
The reporters were killed as they interviewed a woman who was also wounded in the attack allegedly carried out by a disgruntled former employee of the local TV station.
You don’t expect something like this to happen, a mass shooting like this to happen in your community. It really just hit home. I feel like I knew Alison personally even though I only saw her on TV but she always brighten out my morning watching her on WDBJ-7,” said Moneta resident Dalton Lucas.
The journalists shot dead were reporter Alison Parker, 24 and cameraman Adam Ward, 27.
The gunman, 41-year old Vester Flanagan, is said to have posted video on social networks of the fatal incident.
Hours after the shooting he sent a 23-page fax to the ABC network in which he claimed to have suffered racism, homophobia and bullying at work for being a gay black man.
Flanagan said the shooting was sparked by the