5/17/2023 0 Comments Man shoots reporter and cameraman![]() ![]() 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 last year, 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. Moments later, Flanagan fatally shot Parker and Ward and injured Vicki Gardner, who was being interviewed. In this framegrab from video posted on Bryce Williams’ Twitter account and Facebook page, Williams, whose real name is Vester Lee Flanagan II, aims a gun over the shoulder of WDBJ-TV cameraman Adam Ward at reporter Alison Parker as she conducts a live on-air interview Wednesday. ![]() 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 own video shows him approaching WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, gun in hand, as they conduct an interview. He planned it all so carefully - a choreographed execution of two former colleagues, broadcast live to a horrified television audience, and also recorded by him and then shared worldwide across social media. ![]()
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