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This morning, on live TV, a reporter Allison Parker, and cameraman Adam Ward, were shot and killed during their local news report. The crew was reporting live for WDBJ7, a CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Virginia at about 6:45 am at Bridgewater Plaza near Smith Mountain Lake.


LIVE: Chilling still image of shooter by camerman apparently laying on the ground.

A third victim, Vicky Gardner, a member of the Chamber of Commerce who took part in the report, was said to be wounded and in stable condition.

Watch this news report video here:


This latest ‘Truman Show’ shooting takes this all-American genre to a whole new level. According to reports, the shooter posted his own video of the shooting on social media – on his Facebook account and on Twitter. Watch his video, shot low-res on either an iPhone or Galaxy phone (vertical rectangular format) and not on an HD GoPro as CNN and others wrongly claimed today. See the video here:





Both local and national media, apparently in conjunction with law enforcement, immediately identified their shooter who is still at large, Vester Lee Flanigan, as a “disgruntled employee” – whose media stage name is ‘Bryce Williams’ – first calling him a “person of interest”, and later a “suspect” driving a 2009 grey (rented?) Ford Mustang, even though as far as the media are concerned, his guilt has already been concluded by CNN and others, effectively a fait accompli.


As is now standard protocol with all Daily Shooter events, a series of Tweets were sent out during Flanigan/Bryce’s pursuit, presumable from the alleged shooter himself – although there is no way to actually confirm this yet (although media absolutely insist that the alleged shooter posted all of these social media items himself).


At least 12 local, state and federal agencies were scrambled in a massive “fusion” dragnet operation in order to apprehend the alleged shooter. The spokesman for the CBS affiliate WDBJ7, President and General Manager, Jeff Marks, described by the desk anchorwoman as the network’s “fearless leader” – went on air at 12pm EDT, and said that their station was placed on lock-down with a barrier set-up by police, “just in case the shooter was returning to the station”.

CNN’s Drew Griffin is also reporting that according to ‘past employees’ of WDBJ7, Vester Flanigan/Bryce Williams was “difficult to work with” and “would often yell at people”, and would also post ‘aggressive Tweets’ at other staff. Griffin also said that the WDBJ7 new room had to be evacuated when Vester Flanigan/Bryce Williams came to clear out his desk after being fired back in February 2013.

As with most other Daily Shooter events, it’s reported that the alleged shooter has already shot himself after being “confronted by authorities” in his car on the side of the highway. He is in ‘very critical condition’. Expect hour and hours of psychological profiling and wild speculation on the part of the media.


After the news broke of shooter Flanigan shooting himself before being captured, station boss Jeff Marks (photo, above) lashed-out live on air: “I’m stepping out of my role as a former journalist, I’m not really sure if I want him to live or die. If he dies then he took the coward’s way out, and if he lives he goes to prison for the rest of his life.”

He continued, “I think I’m expressing what viewers think, and what the co-workers of Allison think.”

Marks then announced that there will be a memorial service at the station’s community room this afternoon.


It was also announced by law enforcement agents are already preparing a massive press conference for the national media which is scheduled to air at 3pm EDT. Expect lots of talk about “fast response times”, and “great coordination between local, state and federal agencies”, and also the benefits of “federal training programs” that prepare first responders for these exact scenarios.

ABC News are claiming that sometime between last night and this morning, their newsroom had received a FAX from the actor ‘Bryce Williams’. The FAX was 23 pages long, and already CNN and other outlets are calling it a “manifesto” and evoking the infamous Virginia Tech Shooting on 2005.



Coincidentally, the cameraman who is said to have been killed, Adam Ward, was a graduate of Virginia Tech University (2011). See Ward’s Facebook page here, and reporter Allison Parker’s Facebook page here.

It should also be noted that only last week, reporter Allison Parker has just filed a major exposé report on child abuse in Virginia.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest wasted no time weighing-in on the Virginia shooting, delivering a speech on gun control, imploring that Congress ‘act’ to move forward on gun control measures, in order to “prevent gun violence”. 

The state of Virginia is a death penalty state, and any multiple homicide will automatically qualify a person for a capital punishment criminal trial.

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