Vester Lee Flanagan II’s anger had lurked within him for years.
Two WDBJ jounalists dead after shooting at Smith Mountain Lake
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This screen shot is from the video of the shooting posted Wednesday to the “Bryce Williams’” Twitter account.
A post on the Twitter account under the name “Bryce Williams.”
A blurred image of the shooter appeared briefly in slain cameraman Adam Ward’s footage of the shooting.
Police and rescue units at Bridgewater Plaza
Vicki Gardner is executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce.
A Roanoke police officer moves road cones back into position after letting a vehicle through back onto Ordway Drive at WDBJ7’s Digital Broadcast Center off of Hershberger Road in Roanoke, Va., on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.
Rodney Booth of Roanoke delivers flowers Wednesday to WDBJ’s Digital Broadcast Center after hearing news of a shooting involving two of the news team members. “They’re kind of like family because I see them every morning,” Booth says. “You know, it’s just a big shock that all this happens. I just wanted to bring that by to the staff to offer my sympathies to them because I know they’re going through a hard time. It’s like losing family.”
Sergeant R.C. Garletts, with Virginia State Police speaks to the media as they await updates on the Wednesday morning shooting at Bridgewater Plaza at Smith Mountain Lake, leaving two journalist dead.
Lieutenant Phillip Young, with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office talks briefly to the media on Wednesday morning, at a staging center off-site of Bridgewater Plaza, a shopping center and marina on Smith Mountain Lake where a live WDBJ-7 crew was broadcasting from the Chamber of Commerce offices at the back of the complex where two journalists were shot and killed while on air.
View of Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta behind Bridgewater Plaza where Wednesday morning’s shooting occurred leaving two journalists from WDBJ-7 dead.
Law enforcement personnel block off a portion of Virginia 122 in Moneta near Bridgewater Plaza following the shooting Wednesday that killed two journalists from Roanoke’s WDBJ and wounded the Chamber of Commerce official they were interviewing.
Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton prepares to speak at a news conference on the shooting deaths of two WDBJ journalists at Smith Mountain Lake on Wednesday morning.
Members of CommUNITY Church in Salem, including Joel Akers (from left), Lynn Baker and Ginger Barton, gather Wednesday outside the WDBJ offices off of Hershberger Road in Roanoke to pray for the victims of the shooting in Moneta that killed two of the station’s journalists.
Virginia State Police investigators collect evidence from the apartment of Vester Lee Flanagan II, a former staff weekend reporter for WDBJ-TV (Channel 7) who worked under the name Bryce Williams.
The only survivor of 2015’s mass shooting at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta is suing the television station whose on-camera interview was the sce…
The only survivor of 2015’s mass shooting at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta is suing the television station whose on-camera interview was the sce…
Area school districts have lifted full and partial lockdowns put in place after shootings at Smith Mountain Lake this morning left two people dead.
