Posted on 08/26/2015 6:04:49 AM PDT by LSUfan
A gunman killed a reporter and videographer for a CBS affiliate in Virginia in a shooting that was broadcast live Wednesday morning.
Alison Parker and Adam Ward, a reporter and cameraman for CBS Roanoke affiliate WDBJ-TV, died in the shooting, Parker's mother confirmed to CBS News.
WDBJ-TV reports that deputies from Franklin County and Bedford County were on the scene.
The shooting happened at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia.
oh! I thought it happened near here; yes, KH is in Salem.
I’ll try to go find out the rest of the story, find out the map points.
It would be fun to have a Freep Meeting, tho :).
Wrong vowel.
“Laz do you think you facebook post was read?”
What was said? Forgive me if this has been asked before. This whole situation is horrible and surreal.
Radio station 100.7 said it had been moved to 2:00pm due to the capture of the suspect but they may not know.
See post 546
DeRay such a race baiter.
Black.
(Probably) Gay.
Using EEOC claims to sue everyone.
Self obsessed.
Sounds like a great Affirmative Action hire.
This guy is a loser of the first order. Hopefully he stuck the gun to his temple and only blew his yes and frontal lobe/sinus' out.....that way he can be conscious and cognitive the rest of his miserable life.
That sure looks like a Glock. The MSM and the pols will start demanding a boycott of Gaston’s products. They will completely ignore that the shooter was a douche bag and will go after the hardware.
EYES
It was an AK assault weapon, the chosen “bad” weapon if the MSM. :)
Well, this is strange. Related??
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EVEN STRANGERS KNEW WHO DIED
Modesto Bee, The (CA) - March 30, 1994
Author/Byline: GLENN SCOTT,; Bee columnistEdition:
Headlights burning in the noonday sun, the cars rolled one after another down Church Street.
(snip_
“He was murdered.”
The questioner stopped there. He watched in silence as hundreds more cars took the corner. Better not to ask if she knew where the young man had died.
She might know.
Every death is sad. Every life sacred. All random violence deplorable. There is no sense in weighing one loss against another or rating the quality of grief.
And yet no one who attended Sulu Palega Jr.’s funeral on Monday could escape the obvious: that some deaths carry great consequences. And this was one.
The Palega family belongs to the Samoan Congregational Church of San Francisco, but the funeral service was held in the huge cathedral of St. Paul’s. It was the only church large enough to handle the crowd. And even then, a hundred or more of the 1,250 mourners waited outside. No more room.
“I’ve been associated with this parish for 23 years,” said the Rev. Tom Seagrave, “and this is the biggest funeral I’ve seen in this church.”
They had come to pay their respects to a young man with great potential who was killed in Modesto.
Killed in Modesto. It is an unhappy association. Arrests suggest the shooters may not be from Modesto. And yet the linkage is there now. If anything, the location added to the absurd sense of loss.
To many who knew Sulu Jr. from the tough streets of San Francisco, Modesto meant safe little suburbia. It was the land of stucco houses, of clean curbs and gutters.
And suddenly it belonged to the most cowardly phrase that any proud friend of Sulu Jr. could stand to utter out loud: drive-by shooting.
After the service and the burial, a few hundred of the closest friends and family gathered Monday at the Southeast Community Facility. It is a new, modular concrete center that Sululagi Palega Sr. oversees as president of the facility commission.
By then, the tears had stopped. Ritual had taken over. The women passed out Samoan food. The grandfather had presided over a long offering of family donations to the assembled ministers of Samoan churches.
Sulu Sr. paused outside on the patio. He said he was “doing better.” It had been so senseless. He and his wife, Dorothy, had sent their son to Modesto every year for the same church-sponsored basketball tournament.
“Whoever did it, we just want justice,” he said.
He hurried away, apologizing. Someone else needed him.
Just then another man walked up asking whether the police had any leads. The man’s name was Vester Lee Flanagan. He was a family friend and ran the operations at City College of San Francisco.
“I guess they’ve got gang problems everywhere,” he said. “But I never heard anything bad before about Modesto.”
Such is the echo of a gun fired once.
Hell, I like to think my post was what made him attempt to take his life.
It was said that the cameraman who was killed was a “strong Christian”. Is it possible that factored into the killer’s anger?
Is there a copy of the “manifesto” somewhere, or do we only get that if the shooter is a WHITE racist?
Whoa!
We did get Christopher Dorner’s manifesto.
Yeah, he responded, “F*** you, cracker. Im coming for yu next.”
[ Laz do you think you facebook post was read?
Hell, I like to think my post was what made him attempt to take his life. ]
Same here, I would like to think that one of the last thing to go though his puny little hateful mind was your taunts, well before the tiny piece of lead came into his head and finally ended his vile spiteful thought processes.
Ever since the so-called beer summit when Obama, with no real knowledge of the situation, called out the cop for mistreating the college professor (black), he has contributed to racial unrest in this country.
His consistent jumping to the defense of the black people in the situation before he knows the facts has done nothing but make the situation worse.
Good. Then he stands before the Christ. :)
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