The shootings are likely to be more personal since Vester Lee Flanagan (also known as Bryce Williams) had issues with Alison Parker and Adam Ward at the same Roanoke, Virginia newsroom where he worked at before he was fired.   The suspect in Wednesday’s double murder of two reporters working for a Virginia news station is […]

A 23-page letter received via fax Wednesday morning by ABC News suggests that the racially motivated mass shooting at a Charleston, SC AME church earlier this summer was the motivation for the shooting of two White journalists in Roanoke, Virginia. Reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, died as a result of their injuries. […]

Updated Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, 2:35 p.m. EDT: Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, the suspect in the fatal shooting of two journalists on the air in Virginia, was arrested in critical condition after reportedly shooting himself. He has died from those wounds, according to Yahoo News. The news station notes that around 11:30 a.m., a […]

UPDATE: Wednesday, August 26, 11:50 AM EST: ABC News is reporting that they received a fax containing a 23-page manifesto from someone named Bryce Williams. The document was handed over to investigators. State police have released an update confirming the suspected gunman is not dead, but in critical condition after shooting himself. ———- UPDATE: Wednesday, August […]