News Crew shot live on air !!

bluebell Wed 26 Aug 2015, 4:12 pm

How terrible. Are guns so easy to obtain in the States? Dreadful thing to happen in any circumstances.

Virginia Shooting: WDBJ 7 News Crew 'Shot Dead Live On Air' in Moneta, Franklin County
The Huffington Post UK | By George Bowden

Posted: 26/08/2015 14:02 BST Updated: 2 minutes ago

- Shooting leaves reporter and cameraman dead, interviewee injured
- Broadcast live on Virginia station WDBJ 7, footage depicted gunman
- Reports say chase currently in progress, gunman still at large

BBC News now too. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34062118

US TV journalists shot dead on air
Alison Parker and Adam Ward
A reporter and a cameraman are shot dead during a live TV interview for a local station in the US state of Virginia.

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**Freedom** Wed 26 Aug 2015, 5:39 pm

Can anyone remember when a bailiff, his assistant and a council officer were shot dead live on TV - possibly somewhere in the Midlands about 20 years ago?

There are conflicting reports coming in now that the assailant in this awful case has shot himself.

PMR Wed 26 Aug 2015, 7:03 pm

He has shot himself , but is fighting for his life according to the BBC news at 7pm
Edited at 8pm he's now died he was apparently a disgruntled ex employee of the news network