Reporter and Photographer Murdered While Doiing a Live Report.

[Liberal In Texas]

WDBJ7 Reporter Alison Parker, Photographer Adam Ward Killed in Moneta on Live Broadcast around 6:45 a.m. at a shopping center in Moneta, Virginia.

In chilling footage that has been posted online, several shots break out and screams are heard. The camera drops to the floor and the screams continue — before the broadcast cuts away to a confused and concerned-looking anchor.

The station confirmed that Parker — who just turned 24 — and photographer Adam Ward, 27, were killed.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wdbj7-reporter-alison-parker-photographer-killed-moneta-live-broadcast-n416221

Video:
http://gawker.com/gunman-fires-shots-at-virginia-news-crew-during-live-re-1726593659

[daleanime]

1. Quick, someone alert the Defenders of the Second......

[IDemo]

10. The commenters at ABC are way ahead of you

One or two condolences to the families, followed by a torrent of gun suckage.

[Initech]

11. Um... fuck those people.

I don't care if this post gets hidden but that must be said.

[pipoman]

17. Quick...dance in the blood. .politicize tragedy IMMEDIATELY!!1!!

[daleanime]

19. Huh? Did somebody say something?

Could have sworn I heard something.

[Orrex]

25. The NRA will politicize this within the span of a news cycle.

As they do with every single shooting that makes national headlines.

[Greybnk48]

2. The video is horrific.

Innocent people just cut down.

[malaise]

5. Wrong the fiance of the photographer was the producer of the show

She was watching from the control room.

Thanks NRA!! Keep those guns available

and her fiance was a news anchor

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Yikes. Sheeeeez. n/t

[TBF]

4. Clearly reporters should wear full body gear

and carry assault rifles while they are reporting.

[malaise]

7. The Chamber of Commerce lady she was interviewing

was shot in the back

[TBF]

8. Sometimes when things happen to rich folks

people start paying attention. But I lost all hope on this issue when they shot up an upscale elementary school.

The NRA is a terrorist organization and should be classified as such.

[malaise]

9. +1,000

Stop the guns!!

[Liberal In Texas]

13. Let me tell you something, a reporter and photographer at a TV station in Roanoke VA are not rich.

These small market TV stations pay a living wage, but that's about it.

What a shame, both these folks had their while lives ahead of them and now, like so many others shot every day in this country, they've been brutally murdered.
Their friends and relatives will also have had their lives devastated forever.

[TBF]

21. Good points -

I didn't note the location (was thinking high-paid media that works for corporate). You are correct that these are working folks like us. This madness needs to stop. If we think about it, it is the very wealthy supporting the manufacturing of not only military weapons but also guns on our street - and making a pretty profit off of them. Meanwhile, ordinary citizens are shooting each other. So it's a win-win for the wealthy.

[cascadiance]

32. I can personally attest to that!

I recall when working at a television station with a broadcasting degree and working for minimum wage there, and many other coworkers not being paid much more than that then either. A lot of people who were working there were also unpaid interns too. It seemed sadly ironic when I watched a weekend report from a strike at a meat packing plant where workers camera crew and a reporter from our station who was dressed up in a suit was interviewing strikers, who were making more than he was by far and asking for larger wages than that, and he was keeping a straight face, and anyone else watching him and even those being interviewd would have assumed he was in the "privileged" class based upon his dress and what they were wearing and what they were protesting about.

And it was in small markets like these where even back when Reagan's administration had just been in place for a short time, where media ownership in one city for newspapers, news radio stations, and television stations (two of them), were all owned by only two companies, and they had a "gentleman's agreement" not to cover each other's labor issues. I remember when those outside of the station's broadcast engineering crew (which were unionized in those days) tried to form a union had a bunch of people fired (including on air people) for doing so, and I'd been warned that this sort of thing had happened before earlier too. Neither station would report what happened in those situations. Pretty much just those of us who worked there knew about it, and of course we knew at the time that we shouldn't do or say much or we'd be next.

That makes watching this for me that much more sad! I'm sure these people weren't living lives of kings that some might think they are, and their friends and families are hurting that much more! While working at this station I got another degree in computer science and moved to Silicon Valley shortly after getting that degree to make more money. When I left my job at the station even to get a local computer job at the university while getting my degree, I was making more than my manager was back at the station even at that job. And I wouldn't doubt that these kind of salary issues probably contributed to the psyche of the killer who was supposedly a disgruntled employee in this situation too.

I hope my sharing this will help others here understand more what faces people like them in the media, and why this is horrible.

[CBGLuthier]

6. I am reminded of what some young British woman asked when John Lennon was slaughtered in the street

What the fuck is wrong with America?

You can get rid of a fucking flag but until you get rid of the guns and figure out what is rotten at the core the country will be a hellhole.

I want to leave and come back to America but shit like this makes me glad I no longer live in the gunniest place on earth.

[global1]

12. Do You Think Now That Media Journalists Were Targeted And Killed That The Media Will Get Behind.....

some form of gun legislation? Or will they still support the NRA?

[colsohlibgal]

14. Sad/Angry

How horrible, those two were young and should have had a nice life ahead.

We'll see but just now the Governor just was quoted saying it was a disgruntled ex employee.

[chalmers]

29. Ain't nobody guaranteed of nothing.

Neighbor kid of mine died when he was 3 years old. Its nature.

[Starry Messenger]

15. It's so fucking senseless. :(

[Liberal In Texas]

16. Suspect in Virginia shooting of two journalists is ex-employee

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe said the suspected shooter of two television journalists on air Wednesday morning has been identified and appears to be a disgruntled former employee from the station, local media reported.

The suspect is being pursued, a CBS News affiliate in Richmond, Virginia, and Washington-based WTOP radio said. WTVR, the CBS station, said the suspect was in a vehicle being chased by police.

Hope they catch the bastard real soon.

[Oilwellian]

18. The camera captured the killer's face

This is in my backyard and we're all in shock. It seems because of this pic, the police now know who it is. A disgruntled employee.

https://twitter.com/AliLanyon/status/636536131518078976

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Suspect's vehicle located at the airport.

[cbdo2007]

22. Damn, that's some scary shit. The anchor at the desk handled it well though.

Just another couple of people gunned down in America....move along...nothing to see here.

[Go Vols]

23. MSNBC is saying

the shooter is live tweeting and posting vid of shooting.

Edit: A minute later they say twitter account shut down.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Account was just suspended.

[Oilwellian]

26. Executive Director of local Chamber of Commerce also shot

Vicki Gardner, the executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, who Parker was interviewing at the time of the incident, was shot in the back and is undergoing surgery, CNN reports.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/virginia-journalists-killed-suspect_55ddba22e4b04ae497051567?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000024

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. "Disregard lookout for suspect and vehicle..."

Just now.

[maryellen99]

28. I bet he killed himself nt

[ohheckyeah]

31. Report is he

shot himself but no word if he is dead

[Bonx]

33. Hopefully.

[Divernan]

30. Black shooter tweeted woman victim made racist comments to him

The suspect appeared to be posting messages on his Twitter account, including a video of the shooting. Twitter quickly suspended the account. Among those tweets Flanagan claimed that Parker had made racist comments to him, and that Ward had complained to human resources about him.

Read more: http://www.fox10tv.com/story/29882233/reporter-photographer-killed-in-shooting-on-live-tv-in-va#ixzz3jw7wY7AM

There is a photo of the shooter w/ female reporter at this link.

[cbdo2007]

35. We'll let the courts figure all that out. Still no reason to go kill somebody.

[philosslayer]

36. Obviously no reason to kill someone

But there's more to this story to come out.

[Oilwellian]

34. Local news is reporting killer was killed

On edit: Killer shot himself.

Second edit: Killer is still alive.

[phylny]

37. I live in Moneta, on the Bedford County side (across the bridge/lake from Bridgewater Plaza)

This is a small, friendly, very conservative area with lots of Confederate flags and NRA stickers. We've had homicides in the area, but they are almost all due to domestic violence/disturbances. I was at Bridgewater Plaza with my some of my nieces and my nephew on Friday.

This is horrific. I'm so sorry for the victims, their friends and family, but also, as odd as it sounds, for the gunman who probably was suffering from some mental illness.

I don't expect this incident to change the area's love affair with guns, but it would be nice if it at least prompted a dialogue.