Gardner has now begun opening up about the incident, and she told Fox News that she feared the gunman would kill her after he shot and killed Parker and Ward.
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“I was laying down”. “I realized that Adam [Ward] was down in front of me and Alison [Parker] was not to the side of me any longer”. “It was very chaotic”.
Flanagan walked up and opened fire, killing Ward and Parker.
On a Facebook page dedicated to her recovery, Gardner thanked her well-wishers as she continues her recuperation from home.
“Had I continued to stand there, I would not be here talking to you”, Vicki Gardner told Fox News. Gardner added that the shooter was “very silent”. We are thrilled to have her home but she does face a long recuperation time to be back at 100%.
The suspected gunman, Vester Lee Flanagan II, committed suicide after being tracked down by police.
Gardner said she thought she would be paralyzed.
Vester Flanagan shot former colleagues Alison Parker and Adam Ward on August 26.
Mrs Gardner’s husband Tim said he saw the chilling attack unfold on live television, and spent 15 minutes thinking his wife had been murdered.
“I have so many angels around me, it didn’t happen that way”. And I saw movement. And I didn’t know where [Flanagan] was.
Vicki Gardner was being interviewed by Alison Parker when they were shot at. She was released from hospital on September 7.
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Vicki Gardner: “I’m happy to be here” after surviving shooting. Though painful, she was able to recall the events of that tragic day in her first interview since the shooting.
