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

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  • #32
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,775 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #33
    cruizer101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭cruizer101


    Bit more info on it here:

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


  • #34
    rizzla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,977 ✭✭✭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.


  • #35
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


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


  • #36
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


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


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  • #37
    RichardCeann
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 647 ✭✭✭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.


  • #38
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    The reporter was only 24 :(


  • #39
    Shane St.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Shane St.


    That was brutal to watch!


  • #40
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    Scary.


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  • #42
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,370 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #43
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


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


  • #44
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #45
    VisibleGorilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭VisibleGorilla


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

    Was he not caught yet?
    Mental illness.


  • #46
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    Dard23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭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.


  • #48
    hots
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭hots


    So horrible.


  • #49
    Andre 3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭Andre 3000


    Those screams are absolutely haunting.

    RIP.


  • #50
    Harry Palmr
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    I thought that American live television was broadcast with a 7 second delay for swearing and stuff and indeed murderous shootings.


  • #51
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭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?


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  • #52
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    anything on the woman who was being interviewed, was she left untouched?
    Shot in the back apparently. Critical, but likely to recover.


  • #53
    Andre 3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭Andre 3000


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    shocking.....



    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?

    She was shot in the back. Reports were that she too died but appears to be in surgery now.


  • #54
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    It looks like he is wearing a mask, clear difference between hands/neck and face colour. Also judging by his clothes/boots he was clearly dressed and prepared to do this so I doubt it was completely random.


  • #55
    TrueIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭TrueIt


    seamus wrote: »
    Shot in the back apparently. Critical, but likely to recover.

    She went straight into surgery


  • #56
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    Zombienosh wrote: »
    It looks like he is wearing a mask, clear difference between hands/neck and face colour. Also judging by his clothes/boots he was clearly dressed and prepared to do this so I doubt it was completely random.

    :confused::confused::confused::confused: looks like its a clear human face without a mask and his hands/face look the same complexion.


  • #57
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    :confused::confused::confused::confused: looks like its a clear human face without a mask and his hands/face look the same complexion.
    The reddit overreaction machine started claiming it was a mask. A mixture of shadows and a dodgy camera still and people started claiming it was "clearly" a mask :rolleyes:


  • #58
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


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

    They probably weren't hovering over the dump button for that segment to be fair.


  • #59
    Kaiser Sosay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭Kaiser Sosay


    Gatling wrote: »
    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..

    Sadly, I think America's love affair with guns will never have a turning point. RIP to the victims of this terrible event.


  • #60
    vetinari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭vetinari


    Fcking hell, it's like someone getting shot during Nationwide.


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  • #61
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Just thinking out loud here but is this kind of stuff really primarily an American phenomenon or is it just that the US is so media heavy that it seems like that it's only really the US that this stuff occurs in? Like are kids sshooting up their schools in Turkmenistan every few months but we simply don't hear about it?


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