[Scan-DC] TV reporter and camera operator shot and killed during broadcast this a.m.

[Brooks, Kurt]

I was westbound on I66 in Fairfax when this broke... And my relatively new BCD536HP locked onto STARS / Culpeper 2. 

Neat recording feature that has. 

Amazing how it went down. 

> On Aug 26, 2015, at 12:48, Bruce Harper <brucebharper at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Andrew wrote:
> 
> Suspect has apparently been located deceased. BOL cancelled.
> 
> 
> VSP changed its report to the suspect was still alive, had a pulse, but was
> in critical condition. Per the 12:00 broadcast on WDBJ (great station for
> news, despite what they are going through they have remained very
> professional), the shooter was a former reporter at the station who was
> fired (and escorted from the building by police) several years ago due to
> "anger issues." From what has been pieced together, Flanagan rented the
> Chevy at the Roanoke airport, drove to Smith Mountain Lake where the live
> broadcast was, and opened fire on the reporter and cameraman, filming it as
> he did it. He then fled the scene and was tracked by cell phone pings.
> 
> Bruce in Blacksburg (where this hits a little to close to home)
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