Reporter Alison Parker, 24, and videographer Adam Ward, 27, were in the middle of a live television broadcast for WDBJ-7 news in Virginia early Wednesday morning when they were shot point-blank with a handgun.
AJ+ has compiled this moving video with photographs of the two slain journalists.
Co-workers at WDBJ7 and loved ones remembered the pair as two “bright stars” in a newsroom where they had been working together for more than a year.
Families, friends and colleagues came together to light candles in memory of the victims.
The shooter, identified as Vester Lee Flanagan, a disgruntled former employee of the station, shot himself after crashing his car on Interstate 66 during a police chase, WDBJ reported.
Vester later died in hospital.
WDBJ anchor, and Parker’s boyfriend Chris Hurst tweeted a moving tribute for her. Hurst was in a six-month relationship with her.
Devastated after the incident, he says they were private people, but he wanted to share the scrapbook as a way to celebrate their relationship.
A third victim, Vicki Gardner, who was being interviewed by Parker when the shooting happened, is reportedly in stable condition, WDBJ7 confirmed on Facebook.
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