Homicide is listed as the manner of death for both Parker and Ward.
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While heartfelt tributes to Alison Parker and Adam Ward have poured in to the WDBJ7 television station from across the country, the station has been honoring them in its own way.
“Our meteorologist this morning found a candy wrapper while on the air that Adam Ward had always eaten and left somewhere, and it’s those kinds of little things that are just getting to us now”, says Zuber.
He adds: “But the surgeon told me that a couple of centimeters and she wouldn’t be walking, and a couple of centimeters more and she wouldn’t be alive.”away from the gunman”.
Police finally cornered Flanagan about five hours later and he committed suicide.
Authorities have not revealed how many times the two journalists were shot during the on-air attack in Smith Mountain Lake, Moneta, on Wednesday.
Parker, 24, and Ward, 27, were pronounced dead at the scene but Gardner, 41, survived after suffering a bullet wound to her back.
Ms Gardner was put into a medically induced coma after the shooting but has now woken up.
In the lawsuit, Flanagan claimed that a producer called him a “monkey” and that he was “made aware that other black employees … had been called monkeys by officials affiliated with defendant”.
The disgruntled former reporter who killed a WDBJ-TV cameraman and another reporter had no confrontations with his ex-colleagues when he saw them around town in the 2 1/2 years after he was sacked from the station.
Dan Dennison, the former WDBJ news director, talked with the Associated Press about Vester Flanagan, who was sacked in 2013 after multiple incidents on the job.
WDBJ cameraman Trevor Fair agreed.
Flanagan shot and killed himself after his vehicle crashed in an embankment following a pursuit with police.
Mr Dennison said Flanagan treated efforts by the station to improve his performance and persuade him to work better with colleagues as discrimination. “We need to keep the pressure on the politicians not to be afraid of the NRA”.
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A spokesman for Warner said Friday evening that the “Senator knows Mr. Parker and wanted to be respectful of the family’s privacy at a time of unimaginable grief”.
