You’re a little late to the party Wife. 400 post thread already going
The news media have been repeating this story nonstop for the last 3 hours. The same small bits of information, over and over and over. Yes, its a tragedy. But I think they will be going on about this for days, relieved to have something to talk about besides Trump. Call me cynical.
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10:55 a.m.
The Virginia TV station that saw two of its employees fatally shot during a live broadcast has identified a third person who was injured during the shooting.
WDBJ-TV says on its website that Vicki Gardner of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce was injured in incident Wednesday morning. She was being interviewed by reporter Alison Parker around 6:45 a.m. about tourism. Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were killed.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe has said the arrest of a suspect in the shooting is imminent. He says police are in pursuit of the suspect, believed to be a disgruntled employee of the station, on the highway.
10:00 AM
“....An anchor at the Virginia TV station that saw two of its employees fatally shot on air says he was in love with the reporter who died and that they wanted to get married.
Reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were killed in the Wednesday morning on-air shooting at a shopping center. Anchor Chris Hurst says in tweets that although the two didn’t share their relationship publicly, they were in love and had just moved in together.
Hurst tweeted: “We were together almost nine months. It was the best nine months of our lives. We wanted to get married. We just celebrated her 24th birthday.”
He also tweeted about the second victim, Ward, saying that Parker “worked with Adam every day. They were a team. I am heartbroken for his fiancee.”
Hurst described the TV station as a family, tweeting: “I am comforted by everyone at (at)WDBJ7.”
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