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Hot Tea: TV Crew Shot to Death During Live Interview in Virginia

I sincerely don't know what to make of this story but its just crazy!!!  No apparent reason and no shooter in custody.



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Two journalist shot to death during a live interview. These two crew members, Alison Parker a reporter and Adam Ward, a cameraman were killed by a gunman during a live interview about a local business in Franklin County, Virginia, Wednesday morning.
Parker was interviewing a woman at approximately 6:45 a.m. when the shots rang out and both women screamed. LINK OF VIDEO



As the camera fell to the ground, the audience got the briefest glimpse of a man who appeared to pointing a gun toward the downed cameraman.
The station cut away to a shocked anchor, Kimberly McBroom, back in the studio.
The reporter, Alison Parker, 24, and photographer Adam Ward, 27, were both killed in the shooting at Bridgewater Plaza near Moneta, the station reporter later.
 Ward was engaged to be married to morning show producer at WDBJ and Ward recently told her, "I'm going to get out of news. I think I'm going to do something else."
Parker is the morning reporter for the Roanoke station and a native of Virginia, having spent most of her life outside Martinsville. She started with WDBJ as an intern, her biography on the station's website says, she previously worked with another CNN affiliate, WCTI, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, near Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Video below


She is a graduate of James Madison University's School of Media Arts and Design in Harrisonburg. 
Credit: www.cnn.com




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