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   From: lying-pricks@msnbc.com   
      
   Alison Parker was in love.   
      
   Parker, the television news reporter slain this morning along   
   with her cameraman, was dating another reporter at WDBJ-TV in   
   Roanoke, Virginia, Chris Hurst.   
      
   Bridgewater Plaza in Virginia, were remembered this morning by   
   their co-workers at WDBJ, a CBS affiliate serving the Roanoke-   
   Lynchburg television market.   
      
   "They did great work every day and put their all into what they   
   did," WDBJ anchor Kimberly McBroom said on air in the wake of   
   the shooting.   
      
   Ward graduated from Virginia Tech and kept up with his alma   
   mater's football team, the station said. His Twitter page is a   
   mixture of sports and humorous tweets.   
      
   Virginia Tech released a statement today extending its “deepest   
   sympathies” to the two families. The statement also featured a   
   remembrance from one of Ward’s professors, Robert Denton of the   
   Communication Department.   
      
   “Adam was a delightful person. He worked hard – you could tell   
   he loved what he was doing,” he said. “He wasn’t afraid to pitch   
   in and do whatever was necessary for the broadcast. He did   
   whatever was needed with a smile and with grace. He was simply a   
   very nice young man and very professional.”   
      
   Ward was engaged to WDBJ morning producer Melissa Ott, who was   
   celebrating her last day at work today before starting a new job   
   in Charlotte, North Carolina.   
      
   Ward had plans to move with his fiancee and get out of news,   
   according to one of his co-workers, news anchor Jean Jadhon.   
      
   Parker started as an intern at the Virginia station, got a full-   
   time job at a station in North Carolina, and returned to WDBJ to   
   be a reporter. She grew up in Martinsville, Virginia, and   
   attended Patrick Henry Community College and James Madison   
   University in Harrisonburg.   
      
   She enjoyed whitewater kayaking, playing with her parents’ dog,   
   Jack, and attending community theater events, according to her   
   biography on her station’s website.   
      
   Her father, Andy Parker, released a statement Wednesday morning   
   on the behalf of his family, writing that they are "devastated."   
      
   "Barbara, Drew, and I are numb, devastated and I find my grief   
   unbearable. Alison was our bright, shining light and it was   
   cruelly extinguished by yet another crazy person with a gun. She   
   excelled at everything she did and was loved by everyone she   
   touched. She loved us dearly, and we talked to her every single   
   day. Not hearing her voice again crushes my soul," Andy Parker   
   wrote. "Our family can only take solace in the fact that   
   although her life was brief, she was so happy with it. She lived   
   it to the fullest and her spirit will always be with us."   
      
   "She's a rock star. She's professional, so much fun and so   
   kind,” McBroom said of Parker. "I lost my dad back in January   
   and she was one of the first people to come with condolences,   
   came to my home and brought food and comfort. That's just who   
   she was -- a good friend."   
      
   Jay Webb, the news director at another local Virginia television   
   station, WHSV, worked at WDBJ for seven years and was close to   
   Ward.   
      
   "Both extremely good people, will be missed,” Webb said in an   
   interview with ABC News. “I think it’s been said this morning,   
   just two journalists that were just trying to do a good job.”   
      
   It was a sentiment that McBroom echoed from the anchor desk:   
   "They're family and we've lost two members of our family."   
      
   http://abcnews.go.com/US/alison-parker-adam-ward-slain-virginia-   
   reporter-cameraman/story?id=33330993   
      
   --   
   Illegal alien Barack Hussein Obama seizes on this tragedy caused   
   by one of his mentally ill homosexual, black ardent supporters,   
   to wave the flags for more gun control.   
                 
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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