Photographer and Reporter Shot Dead During a Live Broadcast in the US

Two members of a television news crew have been shot dead during a live broadcast in Franklin County, Va. According to the crew’s station, the local sheriff’s department confirmed that the shooter remains at large.

Video of the broadcast begins like any local news report but turns grisly as the on-camera reporter screams and a gun can be heard firing multiple times. WDBJ7, the crew’s station, identified the victims as photographer Adam Ward and reporter Alison Parker.

The incident occurred at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Va.


WDBJ7’s Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, were killed at the Bridgewater Plaza near Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia on Wednesday morning.