Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward
2015 mass shooting near Moneta, Virginia, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally shot while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta. They were interviewing Vicki Gardner, executive director of the local chamber of commerce, when all three were attacked by a gunman in a mass shooting. Parker, age 24, and Ward, age 27, died at the scene, while Gardner survived.[5]
Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward | |
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Location | Bridgewater Plaza Moneta, Virginia, U.S. |
Coordinates | 37.14330°N 79.67027°W / 37.14330; -79.67027 |
Date | August 26, 2015 (2015-08-26)
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Target | Alison Parker and Adam Ward |
Attack type | Mass shooting, murder–suicide |
Weapons | Glock 19 9mm pistol[1][2][3] |
Deaths | 3 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrator | Vester Lee Flanagan II (aka Bryce Williams) |
Motive | Perceived workplace animosity and racial prejudice, supposed revenge for the Charleston church shooting[4] |
The gunman was 41-year-old Vester Lee Flanagan II, a former reporter at WDBJ who had been fired in 2013 for disruptive conduct.[6] After a five-hour manhunt, Flanagan shot himself during a car chase with police officers and died later at a hospital.[7][8][9]