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Deadly shooting during live TV news report in Va.
CBS ^ | 26 Aug 15 | Unknown

Posted on 08/26/2015 6:04:49 AM PDT by LSUfan

A gunman killed a reporter and videographer for a CBS affiliate in Virginia in a shooting that was broadcast live Wednesday morning.

Alison Parker and Adam Ward, a reporter and cameraman for CBS Roanoke affiliate WDBJ-TV, died in the shooting, Parker's mother confirmed to CBS News.

WDBJ-TV reports that deputies from Franklin County and Bedford County were on the scene.

The shooting happened at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia.


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To: who knows what evil?

There is actually a Muslims of America community an hour away, in Red House, Va.


121 posted on 08/26/2015 6:50:35 AM PDT by hemogoblin (We're all on Flight 93, now)
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To: TexasGunLover

I read that the manager quickly announced their deaths. That’s what I based my comment upon.


122 posted on 08/26/2015 6:50:49 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Crystal Palace East

In the highest tradition of cameramen—he took the picture of his killer. The man will be caught and convicted. A horror—


123 posted on 08/26/2015 6:50:51 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Crystal Palace East

In the highest tradition of cameramen—he took the picture of his killer. The man will be caught and convicted. A horror—


124 posted on 08/26/2015 6:50:51 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: plsjr
Better image - I pray the perp gets its deserved punishment, a simple death penalty on this earth is insufficient. https://twitter.com/wfaalauren/status/636533640877334528?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

Your link was malformed. Strip everything from the querystring ("?") forward. Thanks for providing that. It IS the best pic I've seen so far.

https://twitter.com/wfaalauren/status/636533640877334528
125 posted on 08/26/2015 6:50:58 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: LSUfan
Although I doubt radical islam was the motive for this shooting, Moneta is only about 65 miles straight west from the islamic terrorist training camp in Red House, Virginia.
126 posted on 08/26/2015 6:51:31 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Mouton
Call for more gun control in 3...2....1

Social media is aflame with foreign lefties calling Americans idiots for allowing guns to be so freely available.

The YouTube comments for the video are replete with "wake up America" comments. Nevermind this could've been perpetrated by someone with an axe or a machete or a hammer, but because it's a gun, it's immediately the gun's fault.

I think people think that without guns, the bad guys will have a harder time killing. What they don't realize is that the closing time for a knife-wielding psycho intent on a melee kill is so short as to be nonexistent for someone to defend themselves, let alone if that person has zero training in self defense.

Everyone is an expert on close quarters self defense until they're put into a situation where they're reacting to a threat.

127 posted on 08/26/2015 6:51:57 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: hemogoblin

MONETA, Va. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The NYPD is stepping up patrols at media outlets following the deaths of a CBS affiliate reporter and cameraman who were fatally shot during a live broadcast in central Virginia.

WDBJ-TV reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, were shot and killed shortly after 6:45 a.m. Wednesday while conducting a live interview at the Bridgewater Plaza shopping mall in Moneta, the station’s general manager, Jeffrey A. Marks, said.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/08/26/virginia-tv-station-reporter-cameraman-shooting/


128 posted on 08/26/2015 6:52:24 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Biggirl

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3329314/posts?page=69#69


129 posted on 08/26/2015 6:52:29 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: jimbo123
Others here have better identification skills than I, I can't tell what the heck he is.

I'll just wait until they find & grease the POS.

130 posted on 08/26/2015 6:52:43 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: winoneforthegipper
Shaving mustache while keeping lower beard is a common Islamic style.


131 posted on 08/26/2015 6:52:50 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: WayneS

If you google map the area in Red House, the trailers are gone. There is just a store there now.


132 posted on 08/26/2015 6:53:08 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: TexasGunLover

And sorry I did not complete the thought in the queens English for you, but “or anything” clearly means or anything related to them. And the D is right beside the R, and I haven’t my had coffee yet.

Go be a anal bead somewhere else. Trying to think about that nice lady and that cameraman.


133 posted on 08/26/2015 6:53:28 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but comSUrfmunists just ran for office)
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To: Biggirl
Hope he is not a Muslim.

Hmmm. Why?

134 posted on 08/26/2015 6:53:30 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: mmichaels1970

135 posted on 08/26/2015 6:53:37 AM PDT by caww
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To: plsjr

https://twitter.com/wfaalauren/status/636533640877334528


136 posted on 08/26/2015 6:53:50 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: rarestia

The odds are it was a white guy with a gun, which recent history has shown this to be.

Of course foreigners are going to be saying that


137 posted on 08/26/2015 6:54:00 AM PDT by MadIsh32 (In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
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To: Mouton

“Too me it has the look of a deranged psycho.”

I won’t add to the speculation except to say that my friends in law enforcement always put the husband/fiance/boyfriend at the top of their list of suspects in cases like this.


138 posted on 08/26/2015 6:54:49 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: PapaBear3625
Shaving mustache while keeping lower beard is a common Islamic style.

It's also Amish. The Amish believed that a mustache represented authority figures as were found in the old world. Hence the reason police are often associated with mustaches.

If you look at the rest of the shooter's neck, it's very dark, almost black. That's not a beard, it's shadowing.

139 posted on 08/26/2015 6:55:18 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Mouton

Or a deranged ex-boyfriend psycho?


140 posted on 08/26/2015 6:55:21 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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