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   From: lying-pricks@msnbc.com   
      
   MONETA, Va. -- The suspect accused of killing two WDBJ7   
   employees died at a hospital in Northern Virginia, according to   
   Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton.   
      
   Vester Flanagan died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a   
   Fairfax hospital around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. He is a former   
   WDBJ7 employee.   
      
   Officials believe he shot and killed WDBJ7's Adam Ward and   
   Alison Parker during a live broadcast Wednesday.   
      
   Flanagan's personal car was found at the Roanoke-Blacksburg   
   Regional Airport. Flanagan rented a separate car.   
      
   Around 11:30 a.m., law enforcement tried to stop Flanagan on   
   Interstate 66 in Fauquier County but he refused to stop. Shortly   
   after, he shot himself.   
      
   Flanagan sent a lengthy fax about the attack to a New York media   
   organization.   
      
   Deputies believe Flanagan opened fire on WDBJ7 photographer Adam   
   Ward and WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker around 6:45 a.m. during a   
   live broadcast at Bridgewater Plaza, which is on Smith Mountain   
   Lake.   
      
   Vicki Gardner of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of   
   Commerce was also injured in the shooting. She had surgery and   
   is recovering.   
      
   Adam was 27-years-old. Alison just turned 24.   
      
   Both Adam and Alison were from the WDBJ7 viewing area.   
      
   Adam graduated from Salem High School and Virginia Tech.   
      
   Alison grew up in Martinsville and attended Patrick Henry   
   Community College and James Madison University.   
      
   Flanagan worked at WDBJ7 for less than a year. He started at   
   WDBJ7 on March 29, 2012. His employment was terminated on   
   February 1, 2013.   
      
   His family released the following statement:   
      
   “It is with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we express our   
   deepest condolences to the families of Alison Parker and Adam   
   Ward. We are also praying for the recovery of Vicki Gardner. Our   
   thoughts and prayers at this time are with the victims' families   
   and the WBDJ7 NEWS family. Words cannot express the hurt that we   
   feel for the victims. Our family is asking that the media   
   respect our privacy.”   
      
   Here is the news release from the Franklin County Sheriff's   
   Office:   
      
   At 6:43 a.m., Wednesday (Aug. 26, 2015), the Franklin County   
   Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call concerning shots fired at   
   the Bridgewater Plaza near Smith Mountain Lake. A WDBJ-TV news   
   crew was conducting a live interview at the Plaza with Ms.   
   Gardner when Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, of Roanoke, Va.,   
   suddenly approached them and started shooting.   
      
   Two WDBJ-TV employees, Alison Parker, 24, of Roanoke, Va., and   
   Adam Ward, 27, of Roanoke, Va. died at the scene. The woman they   
   were interviewing, Vicki Gardner, 62, of Goodview, Va., was   
   transported to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where she is   
   being treated for non-life threatening injuries.   
      
   Flanagan then fled before deputies arrived on scene. The   
   Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the   
   Virginia State Police, immediately began a search operation to   
   locate the suspect. Information gathered at the crime scene and   
   in interviews shortly afterward lead investigators to identify   
   Flanagan as a suspect.   
      
   Shortly before 11 a.m., Roanoke City Police located Flanagan’s   
   2009 Ford Mustang at the Roanoke Regional Airport. The Mustang   
   has been recovered as evidence.   
      
   The investigation determined that Flanagan left the airport days   
   earlier in a Chevrolet Sonic that he had rented earlier in the   
   month.   
      
   During the course of the investigation, law enforcement was able   
   to locate the suspect as he traveled along Interstate 81.   
      
   It was shortly before 11:30 a.m., when Virginia State Police   
   Trooper Pamela M. Neff was on patrol along Interstate 66 and her   
   vehicle’s License Plate Reader (LPR) alerted to the license   
   plate of a silver Chevrolet Sonic traveling east on I-66. She   
   followed behind for a short distance as additional troopers   
   responded to assist and then activated her emergency lights to   
   initiate a traffic stop.   
      
   The driver of the Sonic, Flanagan, refused to stop and sped away   
   from the trooper. It was only a minute or two later that the   
   Sonic ran off I-66 and into the median. When Trooper Neff   
   approached the vehicle, she found Flanagan suffering from a self-   
   inflicted gunshot wound. Flanagan was flown from the scene to   
   Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he died at approximately 1:26 p.m.   
   Wednesday (Aug. 26, 2015).   
      
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   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.   
                 
      
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