He said: “He shot three times at my wife, and she was trying to dodge everything”.
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Alison Parker, the reporter who was interviewing Gardner for the station’s morning show, and Adam Ward, the cameraman, were killed. He later led police on a chase that ended when he crashed his vehicle.
The parting words that Vester Lee Flanagan said to former colleague Adam Ward, the cameraman killed in this week’s on-air shooting in Virginia, might have been prompted by Ward’s decision to film Flanagan being fired from their news station two years ago, court records suggest. “We are also praying for the recovery of Vicki Gardner“, Amber Bowman, a spokeswoman for Flanagan’s family, said from Vallejo, California.
Parker’s boyfriend, WDBJ anchor Chris Hurst, said Parker went on an assignment with Flanagan when she was an intern and innocently remarked that her friend lived on “Cotton Hill Road”.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, it has been revealed that Flanagan worked as a general assignment reporter at WDBJ from March 2012 until February 2013.
“Coming back from a morning show live shot he would get a small tin of sour cream and onion Pringles, a pack of donuts, and a soda or a chocolate milk”, said Maeser.
GWEN IFILL: Joined by the WDBJ staff this afternoon, station president Marks said Flanagan was at one point sent to an employee counseling program because of performance and behavior issues.
He told the TV network: “But the surgeon told me that a couple of centimetres and she wouldn’t be walking, and a couple of centimetres more and she wouldn’t be alive”. That meteorologist, Leo Hirsbrunne, visited the memorial and read the notes outside the news station.
Vicki Gardner had a kidney and part of her colon removed but is expected to survive, ABC News reported. “Had he not, we would have never hired him in the first place”, he said.
The medical examiner’s office in Roanoke office said Friday that WDBJ-TV reporter Alison Parker’s official cause of death was gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
“Alison knew what she wanted, she knew what it would take to get here and she was more than willing to put in the effort to achieve her goal”, said former classmate, Caleb Knighten.
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Flanagan died at a Fairfax Va. hospital after suffering a self-inflicted gun wound while being confronted by police.
