Virgina –-(Ammoland.com)- A TV reporter and cameraman were shot to death during a live television interview on CBS Roanoke affiliate WDBJ-TV Wednesday by a gunman who recorded himself carrying out the killings and posted the video on social media after fleeing the scene.
Authorities identified the suspect as a journalist who had been fired from the station earlier this year. Hours later and hundreds of miles away, he ran off the road and a trooper found him with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He died at a hospital later Wednesday.
Virginia State Police Sgt. Rick Garletts said a license-plate reader alerted troopers to the suspect’s vehicle.
The shots Wednesday morning rang out on-air as reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were presenting a local tourism story at an outdoor shopping mall. Viewers saw her scream and run, and she could be heard saying “Oh my God,” as she fell. Ward fell, too, and the camera he had been holding on his shoulder captured a fleeting image of the suspect holding a handgun.
As you can see from the video, the gunman held his firearm in clear view for upwards of 20 seconds. No one in the area saw it until it was too late. This is a sad reminder of how important situational awareness is, and how we must be on guard at all times.
An ‘affirmative action hire’ who didn’t know how to ‘get along with others’?
I am not saying it is not real but it just seems strange that he was that close to them and pointing the gun and they all just ignored him. And you see him shooting but don’t see any blood or anything. And then why does it look like the gun man dropped his camera he wasn’t shot at that point? It all just seems staged or something. But I guess it could be real.
Yet another psychotic, known by the law officials, the “care takers”, family, and friends………who live among law abiding people.
Its awefull the fact that the tags on this video say self defence when there no defence what so ever hes hardly defending hinself and the woman has absolutly no chance at defending her self what so ever shot point blank and neither does the other guy.
Agree with Tom. Also IMHO what they want is fame, and by showing the video, he has achieved his goal. but what sickens me is that heffer c l i n t o n, started her anti gun speech before the bodys are even cold. And the rest of my views on this will remain to my self
I guess the anti-gun news media’s propaganda campaign of calling every criminal with a firearm, regardless of the crime he commits, a “gunman,” has succeeded when pro-gun media does the same thing! He’s not a “gunman” he’s a murderer! If he used a knife, would you call him a “knifeman”?