A Murder on Live TV
August 26, 2015 5:18 PM   Subscribe

At about six-forty-five this morning, a man stood on a balcony near the Bridgewater Plaza shopping center, near Roanoke, Virginia, and fumbled with his phone and its camera. He set it straight and started to walk toward Alison Parker, a local TV reporter filming an early-morning segment about tourism in the area. About twenty seconds into the man’s footage, a gun appears, as though in a first-person-shooter video game. The man’s hand steadies, and for a few tantalizing seconds it’s hard not to want to scream for Parker, her interview subject, and the cameraman, Adam Ward, to run. But they don’t. You see the man aim—gun in one hand, mobile phone in the other. Suddenly the calm banality of a morning newscast is transformed into a horror. It’s hard to watch.
posted by standardasparagus (1 comment total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: The super-dramatic second-person is not a good way to frame a difficult story, sorry. -- restless_nomad



 
For anyone wondering: there is no video clip linked to or embedded in the article, as far as I can tell. The main image, however, is a still from the live broadcast from just before the shooting (it is not graphic).
posted by chrominance at 5:22 PM on August 26, 2015


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