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A TV reporter killed live on air was gunned down by a former presenter at the same station who then posted horrific footage of the deadly attack on social media.
Bryce Williams claimed to be the gunman and said "I filmed the shooting".
It showed him walking slowly along a wooden boardwalk in Virginia to where Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, were interviewing a leader of the local chamber of commerce.
The 41-year-old shot Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27killer filmed murder and posted on social media
Bryce Williams, suspect in on-air shooting of TV reporter and cameraman, is one of their former colleagues, and accused victim Alison Parker of making racist comments
//////////////Father of Alison Parker, who is campaigning for gun control, says he will have to get a firearm because ‘a lot of people take exception’ to his views.
The father of Alison Parker, the journalist shot dead on live television on Wednesday, has said that now he is campaigning for gun control he will probably have to get a firearm to defend himself.
Andy Parker, spoke to reporters on Friday after he visited the television station, WDBJ7, where his daughter worked before being murdered - along with cameraman Adam Ward - by their former colleague Vester Lee Flanagan.
He continued to push for stricter gun control in the United States, where decades of mass shootings have failed to produce meaningful reform.
“I want to go to the Virginia legislature and I want them to look me in the eye and tell me why we can’t have a reasonable proposal, any reasonable background checks, the things common sense dictates,” Parker said. “I want them to look me in the eye and tell me why they won’t support that.”
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As many as 40,000 people watched the attack as the station broadcast live to the local area, including Tim Gardner. The gunman later posted first-person videos of the murders on social media. The videos were quickly removed.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11826040/Virginia-news-shooting-killer-filmed-murder-and-posted-on-social-media.html
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/28/virginia-shooting-lone-survivor-reveals-terrifying-details
