What just transpired in the last twenty minutes:
- Former WDBJ reporter Bryce Williams, apparently the shooter, posted video to Twitter and Facebook that he took as he shot the victims. - The video spread pretty rapidly thanks to morons who retweeted it without thinking, hey, maybe some folks on my timeline don't want to see a snuff film. - Twitter suspended Williams' account. Facebook, as usual, is moving slowly and had not suspended his account there at last report. - Everything is terrible and I feel like I'm going to throw up. I did not watch the video, but knowing that it exists, and knowing that other people unintentionally (or intentionally!) saw it, is too much. ______________________________ f <http://facebook.com/damonbeau> :: t <http://twitter.com/beau1u> :: li <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/beau-boughamer/3/290/312> :: 202/765-9143 On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Mike Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > Holy crap. I used to work in that market, in radio (WFIR/960 Roanoke). > > WDBJ/7 is the local CBS affiliate. Here is their latest web story: > > > http://www.wdbj7.com/news/local/law-enforcement-investigating-incident-at-bridgewater-plaza/34923086 > > Moneta is a tiny town just north of the Smith Mountain Lake resort area. > It is not at all known for violent crime. > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:47 AM, kbrabant via World News Now Discussion > List <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Of course, what is scary for me is that my eldest son is interning at a >> TV station in Tuscaloosa, AL and going on all sorts of reports in both tech >> and shadow-reporter roles. All I need is to start worrying that this can >> become a new area for crazies to start exploring their inner serial killer. >> >> >> Prayers to those in VA. >> >> And so it goes, >> >> Kevin Brabant (can't even come up with a dark joke for this) >> [email protected] >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: danny burstein <[email protected]> >> To: wnn <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wed, Aug 26, 2015 9:44 am >> Subject: two tv news folk shot, killed, in Virginia >> >> >> >> >> probably just about everyone's caught this already, but >> >> just in case: >> >> >> >> Alison Parker and Adam Ward. Of WDBJ7 >> >> >> >> Plus a third shot and wounded. >> >> >> https://www.facebook.com/FBNewswire/posts/943286142376174 >> >> >> >> VIRGINIA TV SHOOTING: Television journalist Alison Parker and cameraman >> >> Adam Ward were shot dead by a gunman on Wednesday while reporting live on >> >> air at Bridgewater Plaza, Moneta, Virginia. The WDBJ7 crew was carrying >> >> out an interview when gunshots were fired. The crew could be heard >> >> panicking before transmission quickly returned to the TV studio. >> >> >> >> The Facebook profiles for Adam Ward and Alison Parker are here: >> >> >> >> Adam Ward: https://www.facebook.com/adam.ward.3388630 >> >> Alison Parker: https://www.facebook.com/alisonparkernews >> >> >> >> - me, I'd be checking into any former boyfriends. Just saying.. >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________________ >> >> Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key >> >> [email protected] >> >> [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "World News Now Discussion List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "World News Now Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
