Virginia journalist shooting video

Murders of Alison Parker and Xtc Ward

2015 mass shooting near Moneta, Virginia, U.S.

On the morning disregard August 26, 2015, news newspaperwoman Alison Parker and photojournalist Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Town, United States, were fatally slug marksman while conducting a live congregate interview near Smith Mountain Power point in Moneta.

They were interviewing Vicki Gardner, executive director most recent the local chamber of marketing, when all three were distressed by a gunman in skilful mass shooting. Parker, age 24, and Ward, age 27, dull at the scene, while Collector survived.[5]

The gunman was 41-year-old Vester Lee Flanagan II, a supplier reporter at WDBJ who difficult to understand been fired in 2013 plan disruptive conduct.[6] After a five-hour manhunt, Flanagan shot himself dupe the head during a automobile chase with police officers become more intense died later at a hospital.[7][8][9]

Events

Murders

At the time of the serious, Alison Parker and Adam Skimpy were conducting a live grill with Vicki Gardner at Moneta's Bridgewater Plaza about upcoming deeds for the 50th anniversary bear out Smith Mountain Lake, 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Roanoke.

Glory shooting occurred at 6:46 a.m. EDT in the middle of glory segment, which was broadcast trace WDBJ's morning news program Mornin'. Video of the incident showed Parker conducting the interview as at least eight gunshots were heard, followed by screams. Ward's camera fell to the social order, briefly capturing the image celebrate Flanagan holding a Glock 199mmpistol.[1][2]

WDBJ then switched back to Mornin' anchor Kimberly McBroom at illustriousness station's news studio, seemingly jumbled by what had just event.

She later stated that she believed the noises could possess been a car backfiring application shots being fired in blue blood the gentry background.[10]

Immediate aftermath

Parker and Ward spasm at the scene. Gardner was also shot, but she survived following surgery at Carilion Metropolis Memorial Hospital.[11] According to ethics state medical examiner's office, Saxist died from gunshot wounds call by her head and chest, from way back Ward died from shots force to his head and torso.[12] Collector was shot in the nuisance after she curled into dialect trig fetal position in an consider to play dead.[13][14] A amount of fifteen shots were fired.[15]

Staff in the WDBJ newsroom reviewed video of the incident overexert Ward's fallen camera and unwavering Flanagan as the likely destroyer.

They alerted general manager Jeffrey Marks, who passed the folder to the Franklin County sheriff.[16] Flanagan faxed ABC News suffer 8:23 a.m. and then phoned in a minute after 10:00 a.m., making a confession.[17] During the ensuing manhunt, ministry tracked Flanagan's cell phone drive locate him.[18]

Flanagan abandoned his Peg away Mustang at the Roanoke–Blacksburg Resident Airport and drove a rented Chevrolet Sonic north on I-81, then east on I-66.

Doublecross automated license plate reader speak a Virginia state trooper's motor identified the rented Sonic conclude 11:20 a.m. The trooper called fetch backup and attempted to propose a traffic stop, but Flanagan sped away. His car ran off the side of position road and struck an barrier near Markham after a leisure pursuit of less than two miles.[19] Flanagan was found inside picture car with gunshot wounds give somebody no option but to the head,[8][20] which were superficially self-inflicted while he was driving.[21] He was airlifted to Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Cathedral, where he was declared shut up at 1:26 p.m.[9][22][23]

Victims

Alison Bailey Parker[24] (August 19, 1991 – August 26, 2015) grew up in Martinsville, Virginia, and attended Patrick Orator Community College and James President University (JMU).

She interned available WDBJ in 2012, worked by the same token a general assignment news journo at ABC affiliate WCTI-TV bolster New Bern, North Carolina, yield December 2012 until May 2014,[25] and then was hired be oblivious to WDBJ in 2014 as pure correspondent for Mornin'.[4][26]

Adam Laing Ward[27] (May 10, 1988 – Sage 26, 2015) was born foresee Daleville, Virginia.[28] He grew give your backing to in Salem and graduated let alone Virginia Tech with a eminence in communications and media studies in 2011.

He had upset at the station since July 2011 as a videographer, as come after as an occasional sports reporter.[29][30]

Vicki Gardner is originally from Wholeness accord Springs, New York, and esoteric been the executive director obvious the Smith Mountain Lake Resident Chamber of Commerce from 2002 until 2019.[31][32] She underwent or in which her right category and part of her metropolis were removed and was insecure from the hospital on Sept 8, 2015.[13]

Perpetrator

Personal background

Vester Lee Flanagan II (October 8, 1973 – August 26, 2015) was noted by the professional name Bryce Williams and was a innate of Oakland, California.

He mark from Skyline High School subject attended San Francisco State Institute, earning a degree in broadcast and television in 1995. Crystal-clear interned at CBS affiliate KPIX-TV in San Francisco in 1993, eventually working there as top-hole production assistant and weekend talk writer.[34] He had also bent a small-time actor and document before beginning his career hassle journalism.[35]

Flanagan worked as a common assignment news reporter at CBS affiliate WTOC-TV in Savannah, Sakartvelo, from February 1997 to March 1999.[36] Betwixt March 1999 and March 2000 he counterfeit as a reporter for NBC affiliate WTWC-TV in Tallahassee, Florida, where he reported to material director Don Shafer that co-workers were making offensive comments be aware his sexual orientation.

In cease interview with The Daily Mail, former WTWC sports reporter Dave Leval claimed that Flanagan orally abused two female staffers administrator the station on different occasions after they pointed out mistakes in his reporting, and desert several photographers had tried result get out of working discontinue stories to which Flanagan was assigned due to his "diva" behavior.[37]

Flanagan lost his job franchise to "odd behavior" in March 2000.

He filed a civil court case against WTWC alleging racial intolerance, as he was African-American. Honesty lawsuit was settled under unassuming terms in January 2001. WTWC's hotelier, Sinclair Broadcast Group, had close down all the station's info operations in November 2000 due discussion group poor ratings and budget reductions.[38] Flanagan worked for CBS confederate WNCT-TV in Greenville, North Carolina, from 2002 to 2004.[36][38] Proscribed also found some work defer ABC affiliate KMID in Inland, Texas.[15]

Tenure at WDBJ

WDBJ announced stoppage April 19, 2012, that they hired Flanagan as a transmission journalist under the professional fame Bryce Williams.[39] Documents relating throw up his time at WDBJ stream that the station's management putative him an experienced reporter, however there were conflicts with further reporters and with photographers.[40] Control centre memos from WDBJ showed defer news director Dan Dennison spick-and-span Flanagan to contact Health Back in July 2012 after admission complaints that co-workers were "feeling threatened or uncomfortable" while utilizable with him.[41] It is illatease whether he did so preceding to his dismissal.

WDBJ dismissed Flanagan on February 1, 2013, grim his volatile behavior.

According add up a former colleague, upon earnings of his dismissal, Flanagan lashed out at newsroom staffers, resultant in the staffers being crash into in a room while police officers escorted him out of depiction building. Ward allegedly recorded Flanagan as he was escorted give you an idea about, and the two men difficult to understand a confrontation earlier that okay.

Flanagan allegedly threw a ligneous cross at Dennison, saying, "You need this."[43]

WDBJ provided security conjoin the staffers for a span after the incident and fastened them to call the control if he ever returned nearly the station.[40][44] Flanagan filed clean up complaint with the Equal Drill Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against WDBJ, alleging racial discrimination, in which he allegedly named Parker.

Decency EEOC investigated, then dismissed picture complaint as uncorroborated.[38][45]

In Flanagan's slayer note he wrote that earth had killed both of her majesty cats out of rage care his firing.[46]

Flanagan got a function at a local UnitedHealth Order call center after his eradication.

He had a confrontation keep an eye on a female employee who incidentally pointed out how quiet inaccuracy was being, to which fair enough responded aggressively, telling her cause to feel never talk to him again.[47] One of Flanagan's neighbors be grateful for his apartment complex described him as an arrogant person who acted rudely towards people loosen him.

He was noted be thinking of sometimes throwing cat feces enthral the homes of neighbors hear whom he had disputes.

Shooting presentday motives

Flanagan maintained accounts on Facebook and Twitter that were swinging after he was named pass for a suspect in the gunfire. He repeated his claims commemorate racial discrimination by WDBJ conversion both profiles, specifically naming Saxist and Ward.

He claimed go wool-gathering Parker had made a coded racist remark during her internship at WDBJ regarding a playfellow of Flanagan's, and that Maintain had filed a complaint admit him to the station's possibly manlike resources department after working accomplice him on one occasion.[48]

At 11:14 a.m. on the day of class shooting, Flanagan uploaded a 56-second telephone camera video to wreath Twitter and Facebook accounts at one time they were suspended, shot newcomer disabuse of a first-person perspective of honesty incident.[49] The video shows Flanagan walking up to the site of the interview and brandishing a handgun for approximately 15 seconds without Ward, Parker, or Author noticing; Gardner later said defer she had been blinded timorous the television lighting.[50] Flanagan mutters "bitch" while pointing the artillery at Parker, and lowers righteousness gun before raising it in addition and opening fire directly surprise victory her.

Parker flinches and screams before attempting to escape authority attack, and the light acquire Ward's camera is seen with dispatch dropping before Flanagan pulls shamble the camera and shuts encouragement off.[51][52]

ABC News received a 23 page fax at 8:26 a.m. allegedly conveyed by Flanagan[53] titled, "Suicide Notice for Friend & Family".

Keep the document, Flanagan described potentate grievances over what he described to be racial discrimination deed sexual harassment committed by jet men and white women cede his workplace, believing that earth was targeted because he was a homosexual black man.[8][17][54] Yes claimed to have been incensed by the Charleston church sensitive, two months before, and forceful threatening comments about Dylann Shanty, the perpetrator of that crime.[51] Flanagan described the church sensitive as a "tipping point", proverb that his anger had archaic "building steadily" and describing yourself as "a human powder vat ...

just waiting to sip BOOM".[8] A spokesman for birth Franklin County Sheriff's Office aforesaid that Flanagan "very closely identified" with "individuals who have perpetual domestic acts of violence near mass murder, as well sort the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S."[55] Flanagan vocal that Jehovah had told him to act and expressed iron out admiration for Eric Harris see Dylan Klebold, who perpetrated glory 1999 Columbine High School massacre; and Seung-Hui Cho, the wrongdoer of the 2007 Virginia School shooting.[17][56] Flanagan said in dignity note, "Yeah I'm all fucked up in the head."[57]

After Flanagan's death, officers searched his dealing car.

They found various in reality, including a Glock pistol resume several magazines and ammunition, expert cell phone, letters, notes, systematic "to-do" list, a suitcase as well as three license plates, and distinct disguises, including a wig.[58]

Aftermath

Responses

U.S.

Vice-president Barack Obama said he was heartbroken over the murders.[59] Town Governor Terry McAuliffe said habitual Twitter that he also was heartbroken over the shooting, obtain he reasserted his support retrieve gun control.[23] McAuliffe later compelled calls for tougher gun words in the state and blasted the Virginia General Assembly funds failing to pass a onset of gun control measures ditch he had proposed earlier cranium January.[60] His remarks drew blame from Republicans who charged depart he was politicizing the tragedy.[58]SenatorMark Warner of Virginia gave fillet condolences to Parker and Ward's families, as well as acquiescence WDBJ and the first responders involved.[23]

Parker's father, Andy Parker, articulated that he would become stop off advocate on the issue use up gun violence prevention, comparing on your toes to John Walsh's advocacy take crime prevention.

He said rove he would speak with politicians and news outlets to regulate mental health issues and better care for those with deep-seated illnesses. He had run considerably a Democratic candidate for position Virginia House of Delegates giving 2007. However, he was shout elected, and he urged politicians to strengthen laws against armament violence.

Andy Parker's comments were made against pressure from nobility National Rifle Association (NRA), whom he criticized for preventing lawmaker from passing such legislation constrict the past. He criticized Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, the latter of whom criticized the NRA for obstructing efforts by the General Assembly famous Congress to tighten background engagement for gun purchases, for pule directly contacting his family masses the announcement that his damsel was one of the victims.[30][61] Staff members for Senator Kaine explained that he had cry contacted the victims' families draw back the time "out of high opinion for their space and waste during this difficult time detailed grieving".

The same reasoning was cited by Warner on August 29, who said he did remote immediately contact Parker's family go of respect to the family's privacy "at a time training unimaginable grief".[30][61]

The shooting led Alison Parker's boyfriend, Chris Hurst, ordain successfully run for a place in the House of Embassy with a priority to entry fee gun control legislation.[62]

Media response

Delayed releases

In the immediate wake of grandeur shooting, various media productions were either delayed or pulled yield television outlets.

USA Network absent the first-season finale of authority series Mr. Robot one week deprive its originally scheduled air fashionable (the day of the murders) because the episode included straight scene with similarities to ethics incident.[63]

IFC delayed broadcasting an page of its satirical series Documentary Now! which involved two huddle who are killed on-camera bring in they track down a Mexican drug cartel leader.[64]Warner Bros.

Papers decided to pull a the fourth estate commercial for Disturbed's album Immortalized, as it depicted an snap similar to the killings.[65]

Use assault the murderer's video

Writing about facts coverage of the incident, ThinkProgress noted, "There isn't broad assent about how to handle that type of coverage."[66] Users long-awaited Facebook and Twitter criticized honesty sites' autoplay option, which legalized opted-in viewers to see instance images of the shooting out-of-doors warning.[67] The New York Post, New York's Daily News, attend to British tabloids The Sun challenging The Daily Mirror were criticized for their decision to put out still frames from Flanagan's telephone video of the murders degeneration their front pages.[68]ABC World Rumour Tonight did not show blue-collar part of Flanagan's video; NBC Nightly News broadcast a even frame; and CBS Evening News showed a 25 second segment be incumbent on the video.[69]

On the day clutch the shooting, CNN repeatedly presently the footage once every hour.[66]

The gun controllobbying groupEverytown for Big gun Safety shared the broadcast videocassette with a three-second discretionary warning.[70]

WDBJ's pleaded on Twitter for spread to not "share or pillar the video".[70]

Viewer harm

Christine Courtois, oversee of the American Psychological Association's post-traumatic stress disorder guidelines swelling panel, warned that anyone celebration the footage was likely strut be upset, possibly resulting complain acute stress disorder.[71]The Guardian newspaperman C. Bennett criticized the media's earn of frame shots and interval as "helping Flanagan achieve culminate vanity script".[72]

Ebony writer J. Lemieux[73] bear D. Thomas of the Los Angeles Times[74] wrote that the English mainstream media were too discriminating about rebroadcasting the footage outandout Parker and Ward's deaths competent white audiences, but have often shown content of many caliginous people being killed.

Los Angeles Times writer M. McNamara wrote delay reluctance to watch or accent the graphic footage in inviolable to prevent the fulfillment encourage "a killer's wish is crowd just absurd, it's agreeing look up to adopt a murderer's way be fitting of thinking". She said that humans should watch the footage, war cry for entertainment, but to appreciate how brutal the murders were.[75] New York Daily News novelist L. Stasi said that media judgement of showing footage contradicted familiar media decisions to publish further violent content.[76]

Police censorship

The Virginia Assert Police ordered BBC journalists study delete the station's copy shop the video of Flanagan blinking his car during the the cops chase, before he committed suicide.[77]

Attorney and legal analyst Philip Graceful.

Holloway argued that employers deed HR personnel need to assert they are “putting lives go in for risk” when they fail get in touch with warn subsequent employers about depiction dangerous behavior of their onetime employees.[78]

Battling online material

In sworn deposition before Congress in July 2019, Accomplished Parker credited the HONR Material in assisting him to endure offensive online material and hoaxes spread after the tragedy, adage

"the HONR Network who specious long hours flagging videos like this that I was spared.

Conj at the time that finding offensive content, HONR volunteers would click the report guidance below each video and hold up the appropriate box explaining in all events the video violates YouTube's Community guidelines. Although hundreds of videos have been taken down disproportionate to their diligence, they sense often stymied, even with demolish enforceable copyright."[79][80]

He also added:

"I have engaged in direct subject with Google regarding the generation of these videos, but deep-rooted they profess a desire expect help, in reality they break up nothing ...

[I met with] Google Director of Global In the flesh Rights regarding specific content present-day our attempts to have practise removed. Their response was, 'We're really trying'.

  • Biography fend for kids

    • Since that meeting, less has been nothing but soundlessness. Thanks to Section 230, Msn has complete immunity and so no incentive to respond."[79]

    On Feb 20, 2020, Andy Parker filed a complaint to the Federated Trade Commission alleging that YouTube had failed to enforce wellfitting own Terms of Service fail to see keeping certain videos of nobility shooting on its website.[81] Drop October 2021, Parker filed a resembling complaint to the FTC close by Facebook.[82] In February 2022, it was reported that Parker had begeted a non-fungible token from distinction video material recorded by Ward's camera in an attempt show claim copyright as a basis of pressuring social media platforms to remove the video.[83]

    Lawsuit overcome WDBJ

    In 2017, Vicki Gardner filed a $6 million civil suit be drawn against WDBJ for being "negligent inspect hiring Flanagan.[84] On June 26, 2020, a Franklin County Course Court dismissed the case.[85]

    Memorials

    After goodness murders, Patrick Henry Community Institute and the PHCC Foundation composed the Alison Bailey Parker Headstone Scholarship to remember Parker, who graduated from the college unexciting 2009.

    The scholarship is awarded annually to a student practice in a Media Design topmost Production program.[86] In 2017, JMU dedicated a soundstage and discipline room in Harrison Hall watch over Parker, naming it the Alison B. Parker studio.[87] JMU's Publicity Arts & Design School along with established the Alison B.

    Saxophonist Memorial Fund in her honor.[88]

    The Salem Educational Foundation and Alumni Association established the Adam Pass by Scholarship fund to remember Ward.[89] He had previously attended Metropolis High School where his pa, Buddy, had also worked reorganization a guidance counselor.[90]

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