On Wednesday, Flanagan shot dead
TV reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, in Roanoke, Virginia, while Parker was live on air on WDBJ via Ward's camera, a video of the incident showed.
Flanagan, a former TV reporter himself who went by the pseudonym Bryce Williams, also wounded
Vicki Gardner, head of a local chamber of commerce, whom Parker was interviewing.
As Flanagan gunned them down with six or seven shots, viewers were subject to it live, as were colleagues in WDBJ's control room. Ward's fiancee was one of them,
said General Manager Jeff Marks.
Flanagan knew Ward. The shooter was a former colleague, who stood in the limelight as a
TV reporter. He resented being removed from it when WDBJ fired him two years ago, he later wrote.
He didn't go nicely back then, and Ward recorded his emotional outburst on camera. Court documents from a discrimination suit that he filed show that Flanagan scoffed at Ward and flipped off the camera. Before police walked him out of the building, Flanagan also handed his manager a small wooden cross and said, "You'll need this."
Flanagan had not worked with Parker, the reporter he shot dead, but there were signs he resented her having been hired.
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