Active shooter reportedly attacks TV crew in Virginia

Fox News ^ | 08/26/2015 | Fox News

[ThomasMore]

DEVELOPING: An active shooter has been reported at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia, according to multiple local media outlets.

Video from the scene appeared to show a WDBJ media crew being attacked in the midst of a live report. The station confirmed the shooting involved one of its crews.

Police are reporting there are three victims, according to WSLS. The shooting occurred at 6:45 a.m., according to Franklin County Sheriff Department spokesperson Phillip Young.

WSLS said police are still looking for the shooter and hope to have a description out to the public shortly.

[jimbo123]

Former reporter kills his on air replacement with a gun.

Film at 11.

[TornadoAlley3]

Trumps fault.

[jimbo123]

Floriano Ferreira ‏@fjsferreira84 10m10 minutes ago Stop the witch hunt. This wasn't Orlando Salinas, the suspect is Vester Lee Flannagan #wdbj 1 retweet 0 favorites Reply Retweet 1 Favorite More jack tinker ‏@jacktink 10m10 minutes ago CNN's Brian Stelter says that it is NOT Orlando Salinas, great job Reddit, dragging another innocent person's name through the mud!

[texas booster]

From the article, updated at 11:01 am Wednesday:

The Augusta County Sheriff's Office has confirmed they are seeking a man named Vester Lee Flanagan in relation to the shooting.

Flanagan previously worked for WDBJ under the name Bryce Williams.

He was hired at the station in the spring of 2012 after working at stations in San Francisco and in Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Georgia. WDBJ let him go in February 2013.

In May 2014, Flanagan filed suit against the station in Roanoke General District Court, seeking money he felt he was owed and additional damages. His suit alleged discrimination by the station and named most of the WDBJ staff in his complaint, but in July 2014, the case was dismissed by a judge.

[jimbo123]

Scary.

[4Runner]

The reporter was NOT the cameraman’s fiancee. The cameraman was planning on marrying some other woman on the station staff. Get your facts straight before you start typing.

[4Runner]

ISIS has infiltrated America over the southern border with help from the cartels which have a presence in every state by now. ISIS could set up a cell ANYWHERE. Even where you have never ever seen an alien or foreigner before. We need new paradigms for this war. First one we are fighting on our own soil since 1776.

[4Runner]

No they were NOT. Cameraman was engaged to another female on the station staff. NOT the slain reporter.

[Blue Jays]

wastoute...so you feel the unarmed innocents are somehow complicit because they were unable to halt the crazed killer?

Most people will feel that is a bit of a stretch.
Bystanders do not have responsibility to engage a gunman in that kind of situation.

[wastoute]

Luke 22:36

[Prov1322]

Gunman posts shooting video to Facebook

GRAPHIC WARNING!

[4Runner]

CNN is reporting the suspect’s name and the fact he was a former employee of the station, but NOT his ethnicity. Surprise!

[Blue Jays]

"...Luke 22:36..."

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Oh, you are one of those people? Now we got it.
Because the innocent bystanders did not "sell their cloaks to buy swords" they are somehow partially at fault for the deaths.
OKaaaaay. Good luck with that.

[4Runner]

CBS reporting the suspect shot himself and is dead.

[wastoute]

Yeah, I am one of those people who feel that I have a responsibility to protect those around me where ever I am.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

That’s not the perp. Poor dude...his pic is plastered all over FR.

[House Atreides]

CBS reporting the suspect shot himself and is dead.
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Ahh...he’s in critical condition in hospital. Get your facts straight before you post! tag, you’re it.

[Blue Jays]

"...Yeah, I am one of those people who feel that I have a responsibility to protect those around me where ever I am..."

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Please do us a favor and don't shoot the scruffy-looking guy holding the well-dressed businessman at gunpoint.
In that situation you just might mistake an undercover police officer with a spiffy druglord.

Use a firearm to protect yourself and your family.
Stumbling upon an unknown situation and determining under stress who is the "good guy" and who is the "bad guy" is difficult.

That is why uniformed officers take control and order everyone to freeze and drop weapons. Sheesh.

[zipper]

Okay.....if I was gonna spitball this, I’d posit the theory of a crime of passion. First find out if the on-air reporter was married or involved with someone. Then I’d check into the camera man about relationships, connections or work with the on-air reporter “off camera.”

You were right about the "passion", but it wasn't love-triangle romantic passion as most of us assumed. It was blame-others, racial-hatred passion.