US Journalists shot dead live on air [MOD WARNING in opening post]

the_monkey

MOD WARNING
This thread contains videos of the footage from the news channel and from the shooter himself , although not graphic, it's disturbing.
There are also still images from the videos being posted on the thread.

From Dav - if you post videos of this event you will be site-banned. If you think posting something like that adds anything to the discussion, then we don't want you here.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34062118


warning Video not exactly graphic, but some screaming and shocked looking faces ...


What the actual f*ck !! :eek:

youreadthat

'Merica

Wacker The Attacker

now thats what I call riding shotgun

Banned

Links234

Jesus :eek:

super_furry

****ing hell. That literally looks like something out of a film.

BlimpyBoy

That's crazy.

The face on your one when it cuts back to the studio says it all.

The_Valeyard

F*cking hell that's awful,


Might want to put a warning in your opening post about the vid.


RIP.

darkpagandeath

More guns would have stopped this happening....

Gatling

Journalist and camera man dead.

Reporter Allison Parker and photographer Adam Ward were both killed

Rip

whomitconcerns

Yes just read 2 dead...unbelievable.

mrsdewinter

Jesus. If I hadn't clicked through to the BBC news story, I wouldn't have believed that footage. Shocking.

Menas

The poor families- having the deaths broadcast like that.

darkpagandeath

Menas wrote: »

The poor families- having the deaths broadcast like that. The footage should not have been released.

Was it not Live ?

Birneybau

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

now thats what I call riding shotgun

Well done you.

Myrddin

Menas wrote: »

The poor families- having the deaths broadcast like that. The footage should not have been released.

Hard to withhold a live broadcast no?

Generic Dreadhead

F**king hell

Akrasia

Menas wrote: »

The poor families- having the deaths broadcast like that. The footage should not have been released.

It was broadcast live on tv.

Stheno

Jesus that's shocking

Menas

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Was it not Live ?

Myrddin wrote: »

Hard to withhold a live broadcast no?

Akrasia wrote: »

It was broadcast live on tv.

Ooopps. Post corrected.

cruizer101

When I saw the title I thought it was going to be reporters somewhere in the middle east or near a conflict of some sort, but no a local representative talking about bringing tourism to the area, just crazy. Poor people and families RIP

whiskeyman

I think you can make out possibly the shooters legs as the camera goes down?
Probably a jilted ex boyfriend or someone with a really bad grudge on the TV station?
Bizarre.

RichardCeann

Screenshot of the shooter: http://i.imgur.com/QkpJEl4.jpg

Crazy stuff. RIP to the two murdered. Such senseless killings.

SpaceSasqwatch

you can see the shooters feet as he is walking by the camera towards the end of the clip.

Madness

timmyntc

This is what the camera caught. Chilling stuff alright.

suicide_circus

holy ****

jobbridge4life

RIP.

Would love to hope this would change things. It won't. The situation in the US will continue to deteriote until the only way people can interact with each other will be by screaming at one another from heavily armed and armoured tanks.

ahnowbrowncow

I'm guessing the other person that died was the camera man?

It's not graphic but it's horrible hearing and seeing the absolute fear from the journalist in their last few seconds.

Dyr

RichardCeann wrote: »

Screenshot of the shooter: http://i.imgur.com/QkpJEl4.jpg

Crazy stuff. RIP to the two murdered. Such senseless killings.

Jaysus like something out of a halloween film

Mad country altogether

Lollipops23

That footage is chilling.


From what I could tell, they were reporting on something pretty innocuous, why on earth did that lunatic target them?

PizzamanIRL

WTF drives people to just go out and kill like that? Completely pathetic pricks.

Was he not caught yet?

Gatling

jobbridge4life wrote: »

RIP.

Would love to hope this would change things. It won't. The situation in the US will continue to deteriote until the only way people can interact with each other will be by screaming at one another from heavily armed and armoured tanks.

Sandy hook was supposed to be the major turning point all that happend then was shops screamed a ban was coming and caused a massive upsurge in sales of semi auto rifles ,hicapcity magazines and ammo.
Ban never came and more guns got sold to the massively paronoid delusional public

namloc1980

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

I'm guessing the other person that died was the camera man?

It's not graphic but it's horrible hearing and seeing the absolute fear from the journalist in their last few seconds.

Yeah the cameraman and the interviewer. Why is it that you just wouldn't see this kind of stuff in another western developed nation?

cruizer101

Bit more info on it here:

http://www.nbc12.com/story/29882220/wdbj7-crew-involved-in-shooting-on-live-tv

rizzla

Queue the NRA saying if the cameraman and reporter had guns on them it wouldn't have happened.

RIP, hopefully something will be done about the gun laws.

KKkitty

This is awful. Really hope the victims loved ones weren't watching at the time. Seems utterly senseless.

Generic Dreadhead

So the person being interviewed wasn't killed, just the interviewer and camera man.... weird

RichardCeann

cruizer101 wrote: »

Bit more info on it here:

http://www.nbc12.com/story/29882220/wdbj7-crew-involved-in-shooting-on-live-tv

It says that the cameraman that was shot dead was 27 and a graduate from Virginia Tech. That was the scene of a mass shooting spree in 2007 so it would be likely that he was a student there at the time too.

The US really needs to have a serious bout of inward inspection and debate about their gun laws.

Stheno

The reporter was only 24

Shane St.

That was brutal to watch!

darkpagandeath

RichardCeann wrote: »

It says that the cameraman that was shot dead was 27 and a graduate from Virginia Tech. That was the scene of a mass shooting spree in 2007 so it would be likely that he was a student there at the time too.

The US really needs to have a serious bout of inward inspection and debate about their gun laws.

They need their guns taken off them until they can own them and use them in line with other normal rational western countries.

Herb Powell

Scary.

Kermit.de.frog

Still of gunman. Hard to know what to say about such a mindless act of violence.

http://i.imgur.com/mWUcRvX.jpg

Son Of A Vidic

The viewers watching that report live must have got a terrible shock. RIP to the poor victims.

seamus

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

The viewers watching that report live must have got a terrible shock. RIP to the poor victims.

Probably more a "WTF" at that time. One of the Irish papers put the video up on facebook before it was revealed that anyone had died, and to me it just looked like someone was shooting and everyone legged it.

Hearing they'd died makes the video more chilling because it's obvious the cameraman has been hit while the interviewer is still OK. He must have shot her a few seconds later

Chances are the studio were still recording the feed even after they'd cut away so hopefully that will be some assistance to the police.

VisibleGorilla

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

WTF drives people to just go out and kill like that? Completely pathetic pricks.

Was he not caught yet?

Mental illness.

Oryx

If you're lining up to shoot a cameraman of all people, and during a live broadcast too, then you really don't care about being caught.

Dard23

Just shows how cheap life can be and how easily it can be snuffed out. Two normal nice looking people killed on the whim of a madman. Makes you think, you just don't know what's coming next.

hots

So horrible.

Andre 3000

Those screams are absolutely haunting.

RIP.

Harry Palmr

I thought that American live television was broadcast with a 7 second delay for swearing and stuff and indeed murderous shootings.

homerjay2005

shocking.....

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I thought that American live television was broadcast with a 7 second delay for swearing and stuff and indeed murderous shootings.

probably was 7 seconds behind to be honest, took them a couple to work out what was happening.

anything on the woman who was being interviewed, was she left untouched?