Virgina –-(Ammoland.com)-Â 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.
Mental illness is the blame here. Nothing else.
Many of these firearm attacks happened in “gun free” zones. Almost everyone of these incidents. What does that tell you? These mentally unstable people that should be getting treatment or put away have the sense to figure out that gun free zones are the exact place to be to shoot people. Let alone a cold and calculating criminal understands the advantage they have.
The lack of common sense by these leftist and media loons is amazing.
What a coward. Too bad he just didn’t off himself first.
So when will we all wake up and learn there is no where we are safe anymore. Gun Free Zones are just a great place to get caught without your side arm. And we all know how that ends. We all have to develop better mind sets…
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Unfortunate that the father of Miss Parker was on TV today demanding action by VA and Federal Govt including POTUS Obama for more gun control.
He says he don’t want to take guns away but have common sense background checks and close loopholes.
He also said his family did not own firearms but he will by buying one.
He will be making gun control his mission in life and said he needs a gun to protect himself from people out there that are against gun control.
He also mentioned the NRA.
Sick sick sick! Whiny Black Guy! Racist Bastard! That’s all he is! May he be Rotting in Hell!
What I don’t inderstand is if he was fired for some conflict with these people and wanted revenge wouldn’t it be logical that he would have said something before shooting them? Wouldn’t he want to savor the moment by reminding them of the supposed awful thing he believes they did to him? Then the same day theObama regime calls for more gun control. There’s something not right about this.
A psychopath that wanted his special treatment for being a racist gay man with anger management issues . I disagree with airing the videos , who gives a crap what he thought. Don’t let crazies think they will be infamous.
Agree that this was NOT staged.
If he used hollow point ammo it would not have exited the body,
the first two rounds may not have hit vital organs and the woman
was able to run but he did shoot her in the back twice.
Unfortunate the camera man could not have hit the gunman in the head
with his heavy camera before he was fired on.
The adrenaline kicked in and the flight instinct kicked in.
Sad day.
this is not a “phony” shooting as some have suggested Unless your shot in the head or spine you wouldn’t die instantly Every hunter knows this…. There would be time to run a little. This is obviously one extremely sick individual. Anyone, anywhere, and at any time could run across such a person. The color of thier skin has nothing to do with it. This man has blamed his failures in life upon the color of his skin. The truth is that he was mentally ill, and of poor character. The only way to defend yourself from such an encounter… Read more »
I agree with the comment above. This is being focused as a firearm issue when the main issue is the mental health issues that that man had. Like said before, if he used a knife there wouldn’t be anti-knife agendas being boasted about. That firearm wasn’t the cause of this horrific incident. The mentally ill man wielding it was. And if only a law abiding citizen who has a concealed and carry permit was there this man might have been stopped. Anyway, I guess an anti-gun person will take any incident they can and use it to there advantage which… Read more »