custody. >> do we know who the suspect is? >> he is, we believe, a disgruntled employee -- i don't want to release the name or anything, but a disgruntled employee for the television station. >> we have been following this report the last few hours. it all started around 6:45 a.m. eastern time. there is chilling footage from that live interview. i do want to warn you before we play this, certainly it's disturbing as we know that two people lost their lives. >> this is our community and we want to come together and we want to share information that can help us grow and develop to provide a better experience. we're seeing tourism. we want the people who come here to say that that -- >> following that moment, multiple shots are heard, and then the camera falls to the ground. you can also hear screams. this, again, happened around 6:45 eastern time. 24-year-old wdbj reporter alison parker and her

cameraman/photographer, 27-year-old adam ward, were conducting that live interview. this was actually at a water park in moneta. that's about 26 miles from roanoke, virginia. wdbj's general manager announced their deaths on air. >> i have a very, very sad duty to report that we have determined, through the help of the police and our own employees, that alison and adam died this morning shortly after 6:45 when the shots rang out. we do not know the motive, we do not know who the suspect or who the killer is. i just got off the phone with franklin county sheriff overton, i just got off the phone before that with the state police. they are working very diligently to track down both the motive and the person responsible for this terrible crime against two fine journalists. i cannot tell you how much they

were loved. >> following that update from the general manager of the station, we heard from, as you just heard, the governor of the state confirmed that the individual that they are searching for at this hour is what's described as a disgruntled employee. this is camera footage, a still shot, if you will, of the individual, we believe, we are told, that police are pursuing right now. if you look closely there, he's dressed in what appears to be a black shirt. we're also hearing this is a dark top, dark blue shirt, and you see what is believed to be the weapon in his hand. another person was also injured in the shooting. she is vicky gardner, the manager of the local chamber of commerce. that was the woman you saw being interviewed by alison. right now she is in surgery. according to the information, the latest we've received. multiple, state, and local agencies have joined in this investigation in the search for

the gunman, but again, the governor of the state confirming they are in pursuit of this individual. according to the governor, the suspect has made contact with a friend at this hour. virginia state police are set to hold a news conference, we're told. right now that is supposed to take place around 1:00 p.m. eastern time. joining me now, nbc news and msnbc analyst jim cavanaugh who is an atf special agent. also with his criminal profiler, pat brown. pat, i want to start with you because what we want to know is a little more about this individual, his background, disgruntled employee. he at least contacted one individual, a friend, where he is said to be distraught, knowing full well he is now being pursued and he has been identified perhaps because of his last image taken by that cameraman. >> yeah, you know, he went at the cameraman first. i think that was the purpose of

eliminating the cameraman as an exact witness to him. to me the targets appear to be ms. parker -- i don't know if he can be called a disgruntled employee. the question s wis, was he a stalker? did he have some interest in ms. parker and she didn't return that interest? was he ranangry at life in gene? we'll never get the exact motive, because when police try to find out the motive, we're dealing with somebody who is probably psychopathic. >> pat, let me interrupt you real quick, because we at least at this hour, according to the governor, know that he is described as a disgruntled employee. to be labeled that, we would assume -- to be labeled that, we would have received some information from authorities, at least, from the television station of perhaps a history so that they would identify him as disgruntled. >> they can identify him that

way, that's entirely fine. what i'm pointing out is we try to figure out the motive behind somebody who is a disturbed psychopathic individual. they have reasons for doing things like i never got the attention i wanted, i never got the position i wanted, the woman never showed me any respect. they're going to have a bunch of them because they have a whole different world they live in, so we don't really need to worry too much what the moeftive is. what we do know is he wanted to feel power and control and just weed out the people he felt had dissed him in some way. that's all we really know. >> jim, let me bring you in. we don't know if there was contact this morning between the two victims, and again, the third woman who is now in surgery, and this suspect. we do know, though, that this played out on live television, that he is a former disgruntled employee. this individual would have known this was playing out on television as it happened. he's an employee, a former

employee, and he would have been familiar with what was going on, that this wasn't a taped interview but one that was playing out live. >> well, that's exactly right, tamron. i think he had the purpose in mind he was going to kill these folks from the station. you know, that photograph of him that the cameraman took is pretty clear. if you look at it on a few different angles, you can actually see his face. anyone who would know this guy would clearly recognize him. he has a recognizable face from that still photograph. i don't know if you can see it on that shot, but you really can see it on various shots. he has a slight, skruffy beard, he's easily recognizable. police recognized him. somebody said that's so-and-so. now they've chased him and have him confined in an area on highway 64, and most likely he's suicidal. he's talking to friends, he's deciding whether he wants to live or die, and he could very

well just shoot himself or he could go out in a suicide by cop, or he could surrender. so that looks like the situation currently, tamron. he's surrounded, they're likely talking to him, probably by cell phone. that's how we would initially start in a vehicle like that. this is what's playing out. he's trying to decide what he's going to do. the negotiators, of course, trying to drop his emotional level down and work with him. as pat brown said, he might be suffering from all kinds of psychosis, so the negotiators have to work through that, drop the emotional level down, see if they can at least talk him into not committing suicide, and that's where they are right now. >> obviously, jim, from what we heard a short time ago from the governor, they have a location. the governor said he's on 64. we're waiting to get more information from the virginia state police. what we have at this point, and to update our audience, from this hour, the next update will

be a press conference at 1:00 p.m. it seems like we would get something sooner than that, jim, given that they have a location. let me have you hold on for a second, pat. right now we've been able to confirm the identity of the suspect. he is vester lee flanagan ii. he's 41 years old. this is the information we're just getting in right now. the virginia state police are pursuing leads and not engage in an actual pursuit on the interstate. that contradicts what the governor said in his interview a short time ago on the radio. so the pursuing lead not engaged in an actual pursuit on the interstate. it says franklin county virginia sheriff's office is investigating the shooting that happened this morning at

bridgewater plaza near smith mountain lake. at this time, sheriff's officials can confirm that at this time three people were shot, the deceased being the reporter and her cameraman. this was around 6:45 local time. the shooter has not been apprehended and they provided another still image of the suspect. pat, back to the conversation of how they were able to identify this man who was now vester lee flanagan. perhaps he had no idea that this image was caught from. from all the information we received, he approached firing off that gun, and had no idea that the camera itself captured this image that is now being broadcast nationwide. pat? >> he took the cameraman down

first. they knew where they were. it was kind of an unusual time of day. he didn't get what he wanted for him, his idea most likely was to appear, shoot on target. >> and then they wouthen things planned. now he panicked because he didn't think this would happen and they're coming after him. now he has to make a decision and this is where it becomes very dangerous. he's already killed two people. at this point he could become a street killer. that's why police want to get him, he might shoot someone else just because he's on the run.

they can bring him in. i don't care if he's dead or alive because he needs to be put away, anyway. i'm hoping they get him before he does harm another person. >> let me bring in n brbc also t joins the investigation. the identity of the suspect, vester lee flanagan ii. the governor had indicated there was a pursuit, but now state police say there is no pursuit happening on the interstate. what can you tell us regarding this man and the search for him? >> that's the important point here, tamron. the governor said they were in pursuit of him, but now it's not clear whether the car they were pursuing was actually the one that he had or whether, in fact, he was driving a different car. i think it's safe to say at this point they don't know where he is. they thought they had ways of trying to find out, they're

trying to pinpoint his location using other means. but i think the fact they put out his i am anlz, put out his name that they're not about to give his name. this is poimportant, but i don' think they precisely know where he is. they want to bring this to a close in a peaceful way. they don't want anyone else shot here. they know, or they believe, anyway, they're pursuing mr. flanagan. they don't know that he's not well armed, or at least has his. they want to find where he is, get that information secured and get him into custody.

>> for the understanding of our viewer, what they are looking at is you see that the wording, which would normally be horizontal on your screen, is vertical, so that the image of this individual is more clear. >> that's right. if you look at the screen you're looking at right now that has our picture on it, and you turn it on its end, that's what you're looking at in the still frame. that is what's happened here to the image here. because after the cameraman is shot, he's falling to the ground, his camera is now sideways, and it captures this fleeting image, a frame or two, of video. now, the picture you're looking at right now is an off-the-tube, off-the-screen picture, and there is a big reflection in the middle of it, the little thing with stripes is presumably not in the mortgage video, because people who looked at the original video say it's pretty

clear the gunman is wearing black pants. you can make out little bits of blue on his top, but the most thing is his face, and people who work at that station who knew him say that's why authorities are looking for him. >> we have a local reporter from wlws tv. she joins us now from rocky mount, virginia near the scene there. what are authorities telling you? now that we have the identity of this person they're looking for the pursuit of this person. pete, i'm sorry, we lost contact with her. hopefully we can get her back on here. but pete, it is quite remarkable that in the midst of -- >> this is the third vehicle. >> do we still have pete there? let me go back to jim cavanaugh.

jim, are you there? again, right now, obviously, ladies and gentlemen at home, this is a very fluid situation, but let me tell you what we know at this point. just within the last few minutes, we received a confirmation of the identity of the man in that still image that you've been looking at now all morning long. his name is vester lee flanagan ii. he's 41 years old. he has been described as a disgruntled employee at wdbj, channel 7, which is where the reporter alison parker and photographer adam ward worked. they are the two people who were gunned down during a live broadcast of the news. right now we've learned that alison parker's fiance, chris hurst, is also an anchor at that very same station. he has taken to social media to express his obvious grief, and he says i'm comforted by

everyone at wdbj 7. we are family. she worked with adam every day. they were a team. i'm heartbroken for his fiancee, as we've been told the photographer adam's fiancee was a producer at the television station, was in the control room as this played out. she was preparing, from some reporting we received, to move on to a new job opportunity, and there was a festive mood at the station to celebrate her new journey as well as her engagement to adam ward when this played out as she was in the control room at work. again, alison parker's fiance, chris hurst, also a staff member at the television station. he described her as this, according to his social media. she was the most radiant woman i ever met, and for some reason she loved me back. she loved her family, her parents, and her brother. chris writes, we were together almost nine months. it was the best nine months of

our lives. we wanted to get married. we just celebrated her 24th birthday. and pete, alison parker's last tweet on her account was a thank you to a coworker who sent out a birthday wish to her saying she couldn't believe it had been like six years since she started working there. so we are getting more information about these two young victims of gun violence. we're hoping to get more from authorities as well as we're told they are in pursuit of this suspect, a manhunt under way. they were not as interested in a wide pursuit, but this story has moved very quickly because of the image captured as adam ward was falling to the ground dead, and the camera caught this image

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is. we continue to follow this breaking news story out of virginia, and actually some incredibly disturbing details now to report regarding this suspect the police are pursuing at this hour. we're now told that vester lee flanagan is live tweeting under a pseudonym details of the crime in addition to posting video of the shooting itself. this is an extraordinary detail that we've been able to confirm, that the individual, the suspect who gunned down this young reporter, alison parker, photographer adam ward and a city worker of the chamber of commerce, who is now in surgery,

is now live tweeting. nbc's justice correspondent adam pete joins us now. i do not recall anything like this, and right now authorities have confirmed that this individual is now live tweeting under a pseudonym and is posting video. >> we have looked at this video and it does appear to be authentic. the person who claims to have fired the shots posted this thing on his facebook page a few minutes ago, including some complaints that we won't specify at this point, against the woman who was shot here, the reporter, and makes some sort of rambling comments here, but claims he made a video at the time that he fired the shots. it is further indication of the fact that he's clearly not in custody because he's live

tweeting. he must be somewhere where he stopped his car in order to be able to do this. authorities now have put out an all-points bulletin for three different vehicles. they're trying to find him. they want this ending peacefully. they don't want any further shots fired, and i think it's safe to say they don't know where he is right now, and there is an urgent manhunt in virginia for him. >> so what we know, pete, what is believed to be controlled by this individual is suspended. this account believed to be in use by the suspect involved in this deadly shooting has now been suspended, the video off line, the facebook account is still up. >> that's very fast work by the authorities and by facebook. >> well, by twitter, twitter accounts, and they have in the past quickly, as you well know,

specifically when it's involved, for example, isis and some of these organizations claiming to be connected to hacking and terror have shut down accounts in the past. digital technology, i imagine you can do that in seconds, and they've done that in this case. his facebook likely will be taken down as well. pete, what we have here, and this relates to the governor describing this man as a disgruntled employee. we've been able to obtain a copy of a lawsuit he filed, vester flanagan versus wctv, that's in tallahassee. the nature of the lawsuit was in 2000 for race discrimination, according to the document we have out of the northern district of florida. this was back in 2000. and i have this -- it appears that it was terminated. but this is just, again, not the station where these two individuals who were killed

work, but again, this is just a little more into this man's background, the person they are pursuing right now. >> well, he claims on this twitter that he filed another eeoc complaint against perhaps one of the current station employees as well. i'm sure what's going on here is he wants attention for the shooting and they don't want him to have it. >> but right now it's unavoidable attention given that there is a pursuit going on right now, and you obviously have national interests in what is an unbelievable thing that played out on live television. it's impossible to shut down all of social media and the responsibility of reporting that we have going on here. let me go to nbc news and msnbc news analyst jim cavanaugh. he's an atf special agent. picking up on that, to pete's point, we run into this

situation very often where you have a manifesto on live or an individual who wants attention for their crime, and now we are covering this story for a number of reasons, including, most importantly, the pursuit of this individual. perhaps someone watching will see this and tip police off or notice, and we've seen that play out over and over. >> that's exactly right, tamron. he's in the virginia area on 64. i-81 goes to 64 from i-80 richmond. if their spotting is accurate, we thought we had him before when the governor talked, but apparently they don't know where he is. but they do know where his phone is, because he's talked to people he knows or some relatives, so police negotiators can text him and say, look, flanagan, we need to talk. or they can call him up. and even though they don't know his location, they can leverage the negotiator back the other way. he wants attention, just like

pete described, and pat brown said he wants attention. i saw the twitter video, tamron, and there's no question that that twitter video was made by the trigger puller, the shooter, the killer, flanagan, if it's him as they say. because whoever is holding that camera phone is holding the pistol. you can see it right dead in front of him. there is no possible way unless there was two people standing there. it looks like one person walks up, the pistol comes out, and the pistol aims at the female reporter. it doesn't aim at the cameraman, at least, and then the video was cut off from what i saw. so i don't know whethre the fir shot came, but in the video he aims at the reporter. there are ways to contact him, certainly there would be ways to track him, but virginia is not out of the woods yet, because this guy is homicidal, suicidal, a very dangerous situation. >> jim, i'm curious, and i don't want to put you on the spot, pete, you, either. we talked about how quickly twitter was able to suspend that account.

we do know your cell phone gives off pings and you're able to, even through location services, kind of get a gps tracking of an individual. do you know, jim, how quickly authorities could trace his location from his phone? do you know that? >> yes. they can do it pretty rapidly, and they're going to have air assets up as well, fixed wing and helicopters in areas they think he might have been, where he lived, or if that was his vehicle that was spotted. that's still unsure, tamron. but they have air assets, they'll use the electronic tracking assets and they should be using their negotiation assets to reach out as well. because look, this guy wants to talk. in the d.c. sniper case, we asked the snipers to call us and they did. these killers will talk to you, they will communicate with you. >> and i want to bring in pat, if pat is still there, jim. he wants to talk, but to pete's

what he said, he wants to talk and he's been tweeting on a twitter account that's now been suspended. you have a suspect who wants attention, you have, again, this use of social media, and perhaps it has happened before. i've never reported where someone was live tweeting or attempted to live communicate with the public. their beef, which is what he's saying here, he was discriminated against and his alleged issues with the tv station and maybe even the victims. >> well, look at it this way. again, i have to point out, in my opinion he's a psychopath. it's all about him and his game. when he worked at other locations, he had issues there,

too, because he wasn't getting what he wanted, he wanted to blame other people. that's what psychopaths do. at this station he had other issues that he's cropped up in his own head. when he committed this crime, i don't know that he thought he was going to get caught on camera. now that he has been caught on camera and they know who he is, he's going to switch his game. now they know who did it, so he's going to change his game again. this is why when you take one of these guys and you arrest them and they're serving time in prison now, they'll change their game again in prison, because they get on dating sites and he gets a new wife. as long as it's about him, they can enjoy it. >> and perhaps he didn't know the image would be caught by the camera there, but as revealed

now, now we know, and jim was just talking about it with me, that he recorded this shooting. if that is the case, he obviously, to your point, planned to go back and watch it over and over for his own satisfaction, or he was planning to post this as he has done on facebook and other accounts. >> right, and, you know, let's say his face hadn't been caught on camera. yes, he could enjoy watching it over and over again, reliving his time. he also could share at us and others, which is a great way to get back at people. he's saying, hey, look what i've done. everybody needs to stop showing the -- normally i won't even come on and talk about a mass

murderer. if one of these guys are caught, i don't want to give him. >> let me bring in security expert anthony roman. anthony, this is what we're dealing with here, someone who is savvy at social meeld. we are compelled to report this information and needy resmind, a church massacre at mother emanuel. it was a good samaritan an not very far, so we do have eyes and ears of individual. he's clearly not ready to turn himself in. this happened at 6:45 eastern time. he's not turned himself in.

he may be negotiating, we don't know. but thalt houfr. >> with regard to your earlier take concerning it's the responsibility of the media. that would fmd. on the other hand, the individual is in the area of where the suspect was last seen, they can be on the lookout, protect themselves a little better. police are just by nature going to be on higher alert. so while there is a conflict mean the media and active law enforcement activity, there is also the benefit of maybe being on-site and the responsibility that you have to report what is happening.

so in this instance, i think that it's very, very helpful, exist -- i believe the public is better served safer and law ens forcement. in the area where the suspect was last seen, they'll be on the lookout for him, and they will report to law enforcement if he is seen and that is enough. >> we've just received an update from roanoke hospital where they are treating shooting victim vicky gardner. they're planning a press conference this afternoon to update us on her position. she is the woman in the while jock you see interviewed that themp r they were hoping to attract sdpaengs get customers rz when the shooting played out at 6:45 eastern tame time,

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we continue to follow the breaking news out of virginia where this is what we know at this hour. the suspect involved in this shooting of two individuals, alison parker, reporter, photographer adam ward for wbdj 7 is still on the run, as we understand. he's been identified as vester flanagan, aka brice williams. he was born in 1973. police consider him to be armed and dangerous. according to authorities, he has attempted to communicate via social media, twitter account, facebook account as well. that twitter account has been suspended. a third victim of the shooting, vicky gardner, is at roanoke hospital where she is being treated for serious injuries, and we're waiting to get an update on her condition. i do want to go to my colleague,

pete williams. as we learn more about this individual, being very careful not to read some of these things that he has alleged given, authorities are looking for this man and his role, they say, in the deaths of these two young individuals, alison parker and adam ward. but we are learning a bit more, including lawsuits that have been filed. >> it's safe to say they don't know where he is at this point. earlier there was some optimism because the governor of virginia had said they were in hot pursuit of him on a virginia highway. they certainly were in hot pursuit of a vehicle, but it turns out not to be the one that he was driving. they simply don't know where he is at this point. they're obviously very eager to find him, but he's clearly planned this in advance because he's been sending out, first of all, these two things on social media that have been suspended remarkably quickly, and

secondly, abc news claimed it received a fax from brice williams. they have not said what's in it. they have turned it over to authorities. we have not received any fax -- i'm talking about fax, f-a-x, a facsimi facsimi facsimile. the law enforcement show they want to deprive him forum of what he did. they don't want to allow him showing video. he did make a video as he was firing shots. he posted that video. obviously authorities don't want him to be able to use that to

leverage the crime he's already committed, but they're very eager to find him, get him arrested, and they're saying he's armed and dangerous because they believe he's already killed two people and moved to the third, and they want to prevent any further bloodshed. >> pete, you talked about, and we've discussed this a bit, how twitter was able to suspend the account so quickly, facebook as well. we talked with jim cavanaugh about the technology of using a phone ping if an individual is communicating via cell phone, how quick the authorities might be able to use that signal to find that individual. >> if the authorities were using that, we probably wouldn't discuss did on the air while they're still trying to find him. >> you are absolutely right, but we've discussed every other aspect of it, including the social media platform he's using to communicate, and it's the question that i think many people are wondering as well. authorities have not confirmed whether they know where he is or even if he's actually on the

phone with them. we've been able to get from reporting that he has at least spoken to one friend, but we don't know if he's in direct contact with authorities, so what resources that wee be using other than the usual officer in a patrol car to find him? >> well, it was the governor of virginia who said in a live radio interview that he had -- his phone has been intercepted making a call to someone, but it's also possible they heard that from the person that he called. so that's the information the governor gave. you're right, if he is posting on social media, they can try to use that as a possible means of finding him. you're now looking at another still picture of this person, vester lee flanagan, who used this name brice williams on the air. he's a former reporter. the governor described him as a former disgruntled employee.

in these postings before they were taken down, he made a number of complaints, including one specifically against the reporter he shot here today. >> we continue to follow the breaking news as this suspect, vester flanagan, is still not in custody this hour. the shooting took place around 6:45 eastern time. the virginia state police obviously using all of its resources to locate this person who has chosen, according to police, to communicate at least at some point this morning through social media. we'll follow this story and bring you the latest on this manhunt. it was absolutely horrific, a crime that played out on television. we'll go to a break and be right back. luscious crab lover's dream or savory snow crab bake. i'm just getting started so hurry in and get crackin'

welcome back. we continue to follow this breaking news out of virginia. we're working to confirm some new details, but i do want to bring in right now former fbi profiler news contributor clint

van sant. what we do know now, according to authorities, vester flanagan carried out, which is unspeakable, approaching alison parker and adam ward at 6:45 eastern time, opening fire on both of them, killing them there and seriously injuring another individual, and then, clint, taking to social media. you are a profiler, you've seen all types of individuals and things that we cannot conceive here, but this person seems to, if these accounts are accurate, played this out in the most public of ways, and that was his desire. >> well, that was not only his desire, apparently, tamron, but that's his background. this is someone who has been an on-air reporter. i've read one account that said he was with this same television station for a year and then had been fired from that station, hence, the governor's

characterization as a disgruntled former employee. but this is someone who understands both social media, television, et appears he had equivalent of a gopro camera that he was wearing or had at the time. you and i have probably seen videos this morning of him walking up to the three victims. he has the gun extended in his hand. he kind of waves the gun back and forth. tamron, it's almost like the power of life and death, which, of course, he had this morning, as he decides who he's going to shoot first. but it's also the value of that video to him to take his time to set the shot both from the video as well as the handgun shot and then go ahead and commit this act. >> i'm sorry to interrupt you but right now there are reports that the alleged shooter, vester flanagan, has shot himself.

there are a number of reports indicating that the shooter, vef vester flanagan, has shot himself. we are working, pete, to get more details from the virginia state police who have been pursuing this man for several hours right now. but, clint, this is the latest information, that the suspect has shot himself. >> and that information would be consistent with this type of individual and with his postings of the videos. in essence, he had this grudge, he was disgruntled, whatever his reason for this. then he commits these terrible acts. then he posts the videos to show his side of the story and then he commits suicide so that he doesn't have to have responsibility and he doesn't have to answer the questions of both the criminal justice system as well as the media, unfortunately. >> it seems as if he wanted -- again, if these allegations are

true -- his version of events to be known or to be made public but if he's taken his own life he did not want to be questioned regarding his motive and why he would carry out such an awful crime. we're going to a break and will be back with more breaking details on the news playing out in virginia. reporter alison parker and photographer adam ward both killed during a live television report. we'll be right back. whsay real e first ingredient, it is number one. when we say there's no corn, wheat or soy, it's not there. learn more at purinabeyond.com no student's ever been the king of the campus on day one. but you're armed with a roomy new jansport backpack,

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