parker was engaged to chris hurst. the shooter posted a video of his attack online and went on a twitter ramp about his victims, police have the evidence which has been removed from social media and replaced with support from fellow journalists tweeting the #we stand with wdbj. kenneth moten channel 6 "action news." >> thank you, kenneth. as you mentioned, both of the victims' romantic partner also are from our area. chris hurst went to high school in chester county. adam was engaged to melissa ott it was her last day of work before leaving for a job in south carolina. chris hurst speaks to george stephanopoulos this morning. you can see the interview at 7:00 a.m. >>> one person was injured when three masked men robbed a 7-eleven in montgomery county. this happened around 3:30 at the store there on the 1400 block of city avenue in wynnewood. one victim was assaulted and had to be taken to lankanau hospital to be checked out. the suspects fled on foot. >>> 3 miles later, a hotel guest was robbed at gun point this happen

the gentleman's name is chris hurst. he dated allison parker. he went to high school in chester county. melissa ott was engained -- engaged to adam ward grew up in gibbs town, new jersey. >>> a gun battle in germantown section of philadelphia the suspect was taken into custody. >>> chaka fattah is boasting about his accomplishments? congress prosecutors say he is trying to affect the jury pool. >> reporter: it's 59 in wilmington. 56 in millville. 64, better in the city. no worries this afternoon, though, it will be a nice and warm afternoon. 83 is the high, temperatures around average, bright sunshine. >> head to 6abc.com and facebook and twitter when we are not on the air for updates on stories going on around here. for matt pellman, david murphy, tamala edwards, karen rogers, i'm matt o'donnell. "g.m.a." is next. >>> good morning, america. deadly shooting. new details this morning about the reporter and photographer killed live on air. stunning the nation. police searching the shooter's apartment overnight. >> we knew he had anger. we did not

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she o anchors with chris hurst alison's fiance'. id chris has had just a remarkable way of taking this all. he is in shock and she believes he'll grieve later but right now he's standing strong especially for this newsroom and for alison's family. iain and lucy. >> marina thank you very much reporting live from virginia. we're staying on top of this story. we'll bring you breaking details on fox 29.com. look for it right on our home page. back here at home, a big night for a local school that helps children with special needs. after a year of renovations and up grades saint ann's school in kensington is back open. 161-year-old school helps young people agents five to 21 with autism and those who need emotional support. a special ribbon cut to go night marked its grand reopening after four long years. >>> and a happy day for a maryland boy now back home with new hands. thanks to some amazing doctors at chop. >> but before he left this brave eight-year-old had a special message for those who helped him get to this point. ♪ >> we first

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we're joined by chris hurst, alison parker's boyfriend. is talking about alison, because he wants to talk about alison, because that is the best way i think for you, chris, to get thus these next days. we are so happy to hear your thoughts and your memories about this wonderful, wonderful person. so thanks again for being with us. i want to ask you about your colleagues at wdbj. watching what they have done today and yesterday has been remarkable. the moment of silence this morning, putting on, those doing the weather in roanoke when you look at this guy -- who cares what's in the sky on a day like today, but people need to know. i wonder what they're all going through at the station. we have another case of office violence and workplace violence and wdbj-7 is not unique, a close-knit family. ours was special, and you know from your experience in television news and many people outside know how different shifts are different mini-families, whether it's first shift, third shift, overnight. you grow to have a bond with your specific shift. an

i can't imagine what it is like for chris hurst tonight. we saw his twitter account and saw his tweets as he wrote about his fiancee. i can't even -- i imagine the newsroom is just grief-stricken tonight. two members of your team. >> i know, two members of our team gone and then two additional members deeply affected, are mourning flowers on her desk from adam. today is her last day at the station. she just accepted a job in charlotte. today her last day and adam had sent her flowers. she has a bouquet of flowers on her desk with a bouquet from adam. he was excited i talked to him last week leaving tv news and two other jobs set up in charlotte to start a life with our producer in chearmt. they just found a new apartment. he said i'm going to stick around and go to the virginia tech game a week from sunday because is he a huge hokies fan. you talk about allison parker and chris, those two started dating shortly after christmas. two peas in the pod. two very motivated 20-somethings who wanted to do everything they can to get the story and be

the control room when her fiance' was killed. 24-year-old parker had just moved in with anchor chris hurst>> we wanted to get married. we were determined to be a news couple. >> parker family said in statement although her life was brief she was so happy with it. >> parker's boyfriend chris hurst who you saw in that video is a graduate of conestoga high school chester county. earlier today he tweeted this message we didn't share this publicly but allison and i were very much in love we just moved in together. i am numb. hurst was supposed to be anchoring the news tonight and instead he's mourning the loss of his colleague and his girl friend. >> i just can't believe that she's gone. i can't. marvelous story teller with so much promise ahead of her who just happened to love me back. >> hurst and parker have been dating for nine months and they planned to marry. >>> tonight president obama had this to say about the shooting in roanoke. >> i think it's one more argument for why we need to look at how we can reduce gun violence in this country, but right now the fbi has been helpful with local

. >> this yes team every morning reporting for wdg7, roanoke, just moved in with mal vin native chris hurst, told they were planning future together. hurst told us that he alison worked opposite shift, when he got home late at night he made her breakfast, and made sure she got to work safely. yesterday, he woke up to the horrifying news. >> she would always text me when she got to work, she texted me good night sweet boy. that's the last i heard from her. then i was startled awake this morning from phonecalls from the station telling me that there had been a shooting on live television and i needed to come to the station. >> allison, she was only 24 years old. she only turned 24 a week ago. and yet she lived a great life. i mean, she did a lot of stuff. she excelled at everything she did. and she loved what she did. she loved the people that she work with. she was happy with her place in life. >> photographer adam ward was engage today producer at the station, melissa ott from gibbstown, new jersey, it was ott's last day on the job. she was taking a new position in a new market, and instead

and nobody could communicate it better than chris hurst. chris, we'll get back to you momentarily and have much more of the continuing coverage of the tragic shooting deaths of that young reporter and her cameraman. but first, we have other news to tell you about. >>> there are other surprising results in the national poll of the 2016 race. you talk about joe biden and the position he's in and whether he's in a better position than the perceived frontrunner, hillary clinton. we'll get into all of that. did you know that good nutrition is critical for brain health? brain food, hmmm. ensure has b vitamins that help support brain health - now that's smart nutrition. ensure's complete balanced nutrition has 26 vitamins and minerals and 9 grams of protein. ensure. take life in. no sixth grader's ever sat with but your jansport backpack is permission to park it wherever you please. hey. that's that new gear feeling. this week, these folders just one cent. office depot officemax. gear up for school. gear up for great. >>> welcome back to "new day."

she was in a relationship with the station's evening anchor chris hurst. >> today i lost the love of my life and it was not slow but it was incredibly painful and it was immediate. i told her that losing someone you love as a spouse or as a significant other would be so difficult to have to bear. and yet that's what i have to bear right now. >> reporter: adam ward was engaged to the morning show's producer and is remembered as a go getter. >> what's especially tragic is not only was he robbed of his life, this world was robbed of future goals he would have achieved. >> reporter: the gunman was a former reporter who had worked at the roanoke station but was fired two years ago. vester flanagan later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. police say he sent a video and messages to the media. >> many of you have gotten a lot of the correspondence, emails that were sent out. it's obvious this man was disturbed. >> reporter: in a 23-page fax sent to abc news, flanagan writes he was a powder keg in his words waiting to go boom. and the last straw was the recent racially motivated church

. >> she had the love of her life with chris hurst, and she loved her family so much. and she was loved by everyone. >> that boyfriend chris hurst and anchor at the station dating parker, he described her last moments together earlier on "morning joe." >> yesterday morning i made her her favorite scrambled eggs and a smoothie and packed her a lunch. i never had done that before for any woman, for anyone. but i wanted to do it for alison because i loved her so much and i just took so much joy and something so minor as cutting strawberries for her to pack for her for a lunch. >> meanwhile, friends and family of the third victim, vicki gardner, held a prayer service for her this morning. doctors have upgraded her condition to good. this is after she went through surgery after being ushd are from that seen. hallie jackson is live in virginia where the murders occurred. hallie, nbc news obtained new court documents. >> these are from a lawsuit filed by the shooter, vester flanagan, against wdbj, the tv station here in the roanoke rkt what. the documents describe, for exampl

and chris hurst was engaged to alison. any update on how they're coping? >> i saw melissa last night. she was in amazing shape, supported by friends and family at an informal gathering that some of our employees did. i think that -- of course, it's been rough for her for several days. and it won't end for a while. but i was glad to see her up and out and getting hugs from everybody. and chris hurst, who is just -- in just as much pain, has been more front and center, doing interviews and carrying that book around of pictures that help him get through this. >> if you don't mind for a minute i would like to go back to wednesday at 6:45. it's hard to ask. obviously it's hard to ask this. but when we saw the live broadcast which then went online and went viral in this disgusting way on wednesday, the camera went back to the anchor at the desk who was shocked but continued the broadcast. what did the control room see and hear? adam's camera kept rolling and alison's microphone was still on. >> i've only watched it once myself. it was terrible. as it unfolded pe

she had the love of her life of chris hurst and she loved her family so much. and she was loved by everyone. i'm trying to get through these things but it's just very difficult to do so. >> professor, how is the james madison university community coping today? >> i think that's the word, we're coping. i spoke with professors and staff that i'm very friendly with and that knew alison just as well as i did. we're all -- we just can't -- i think still stunned and numb. can't understand how something could happen to someone who was that bright of a person and that much of a shining star. we all -- we all loved her. and everyone remembers something about her. and three years on, outside of jmu, we still talked about her and i still used her as an example in my class every single time i teach about the right way to be a journalist and the right way to do your job and the right way to be a student. and i'll still use that as an example because she was just that good. >> and from my research i gathered that she gave back, that she was very involved with the school pape

she was smart. >> reporter: alison was dating the evening anchor, chris hurst.umb. writing they were very much in love. they just moved in together after dating nine months, the best nine months of our lives. we wanted to get married. she was the most radiant woman i ever met and for some reason she loved me back. wdbj journalist adam ward was also killed. he game a photographer and was alison's morning partner for the last year. they were a good team and it showed. >> adam come from out in front of the camera. how do you feel? >> i rolled an ankle but we're good since then. it's respect. it's very form fitting. we'll say. >> reporter: adam was a hard worker, who was always smiling and respectful. he joined the station? 2011 after graduating from virginia tech. he enrolled the same year a gunman killed 32 people in a deadly rampage at the school. those who knew him said he had a heart of gold. adam was 27. and engaged to the station's morning producer, melissa ott who was at work in the control room watching the broadcast when the shooting happened live on air.

those closest began to mourn them including parker's boyfriend chris hurst. outside the apartment the couple had moved into together. >> i'll carry it with me for the rest of my life. she's made these past nine months i shared with her the best time of her life. >> reporter: her father spoke with megyn kelly late wednesday night. >> she was extremely happy and she loved this guy with all her heart. that's the toughest thing for me that, you know -- everybody she touched loved her and she loved everybody back. >> reporter: there are so many details about that story that put a point on the tragedy. adam ward was engaged to the morning producer here. one of the anchors at the station tweeted that yesterday her wedding dress arrived in the mail. savannah and willie, back to you. >> stefanie, thank you so much. >>> as stefanie mentioned, new information has come to light about the gunman and his troubling past. hallie jackson has that part of the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, willie. overnight at the crime scene a touching moment as visibly emoti

gave her all to the job. >> reporter: alison was dating the evening anchor at the station chris hurst, though the couple had kept their relationship quiet. on twitter hurst said he was not, writing they were very much in love. they just moved in together after dating nine months. the best nine months of our lives, he wrote. he wanted to get married. she was the most radiant woman i ever met and for some reason she loved me back. wdbj journalist adam ward was also killed at the scene. >> adam ward, news 7 sports. >> reporter: after a stint on air, he became a photographer and was alison's morning partner for the last year. they first met at the station as interns. they were a good team, and it showed. fr adam come out from the camera, how do you feel right now? >> when i first put on the heels, i rolled an ankle. it is very form fitting we'll say. >> adam was with always smiling and respectful. he joined the station in 2011 after graduating from virginia tech. he enrolled the same year a gunman killed 32 people in a deadly rampage at the school. those who knew him said he had a heart o

. >> reporter: she had just moved in with boyfriend, chris hurst, an anchor at the same station. >> we would go to station events. appearances together. as reporter and anchor. not as boyfriend and girlfriend. but we couldn't even really hide it there either. because we were so in love. >> reporter: adam ward, her cameraman, was a big personality known for his sense of fun. >> they were a team. they worked together over a year. day in, day out. >> reporter: crossing paths years earlier at the same station, the former colleague who would eventually take their lives. >> talking oil prices. >> reporter: flanagan a reporter who struggled in small tv markets around the country for years unable to work well with colleagues. by 2012, flanagan made it to roanoke, virginia after having disappeared from television for more than seven years. >> bryce williams -- >> reporter: now with a new name, bryce williams, shielding his past from news station wdbj, jeff marks is the general manager. did you know he had trouble at his previous station? >> he filled out his application as vester flanagan. the

the general manager and chris hurst will join us this morning. you will want to hear what they have to say. also ahead, the latest on the high-profile case in new hampshire. closing arguments set to begin this morning. the former prep school student charged with sexually assaulting another student took the stand on wednesday. dan abrams and nancy grace will weigh in live. >>> an exclusive. remember the 12-year-old boy hit on the head by the small plane, made an emergency landing on the beach in california. this morning that young man is going to speak out about the incident for the first time. >> oh, wow. >> you will see it here. >> want to mary from him. >> we will be watching. >> thank you, robin. >>> time for a check on the accuweather forecast. >> amy freeze is in for bill outside the studios on the upper west side. >> beautiful outside. it feels so good. nice and refreshing. this air mass starts off this morning in the mid- to upper- 60s in the city. all the boroughs about 65 to 68 degrees. in some of the suburbs in the 50s last night and th

they brought in chris hurst. he is the evening anchor. he was also parker's boy friend. he felt compelled to share his memories of his coworkers. >> it was going to be important for us to share her story tan love she had for this job and this station and for me and her family and friends. we also need to do the same for adam as well and for melissa, his fiancee. i decide i was okay, enough to do what i the only thing i know how to do which is communicate. and as a journalist i felt it was important that we had to immediately as people are trying to wrap their arms around us, that we be there. >> we are also hearing from parker and ward's families. take a listen. >> i have been alternating between the shock and grief. i am holding up, i guess, okay. i have been crying all day long. >> as you can see from that video parker's father sat next to hurst in an interview with megan kelley. also mentioned the broadcast that the universities were r ward and parker graduated from are planning to create scholarships in their name. the out pouring of support and memories keep pouring

alison parker's boyfriend is an anchor at the station, chris hurst, went to conestoga and temple university for a year. he tweeted a picture with his girlfriend yesterday, saying she was the most radiant woman i ever met and for some reason she loved me back. this morning he talked about alison on the "today" show. >> she made us take these pictures sometimes when i didn't even to want smile, but she brought a smile out of me i didn't even know existed. she did that with everyone else she touched. that's why i'm so thankful there are so many pictures of her and adam together and so many pictures of her happiness. that's what we'll have forever. >> and the fiancee of the photographer who was shot and killed, melissa on ott, grew up in gibbstown, gloucester county. she started as an intern here at nbc10. she turned to facebook as an outlet last night writing, i'm not okay. and i won't be for a long time. but the enormous outpour of love and support from so many of you near and far is so much appreciated. yesterday was her last day working at that station in virginia. she was moving to north c

allison parker was dating chris hurst who we want to conostoga high school in chester county and later lived in philadelphia. adam ward was engaged to melissa ott from gibbs town new jersey, and graduated from penn state. ott accepted a job in chore lot and ward was going to join her there shortly. we've been posting updates on our "action news" twitter and facebook accounts. >> let's take a break from our news covering -- coverage and check in with weather and traffic. >> reporter: good morning, we have a clear start to the day with slots of sunshine in the delaware valley. 58 degrees right now in quakertown. 59 in pottstown, 56 in ken net square. 68 in center city. nice and comfortable, low humidity, 58 degrees in hammonton, and 57 in dover, delaware. as you look at the day ahead. lots of sunshine, low humidity, 83 degrees, and tonight it will be almost fall like in a couple of spots. 55 in the city. in the 50s in the suburbs under clear skies, rather cool for this time of the year. feeling just right, but it changes in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. we'll talk about t

anchor chris hurst tweeted, we were together almost nine months, it was the best nine months of our lives. we wanted to get married. we just celebrate 24erd 4th birthday. ward was engaged to a producer at the station. they were set to move to charlotte, where his fiancee had just got an new job. as you saw in that story, the press conference has reporters from all over the nation, i want to show you here what is going on along the side of the road here. you have just as many reporters, dozens and dozens of reporters here, the one reporters not missing -- not here, missing at this house, wdvj 7, they are not out here and i turned to one of my colleagues at the local affiliate here in the roanoke lynchburg area, i said are they not out here? they said, today, all the other local stations, wendy, are covering the news for them, providing them the video. a competitive business, here a sign of solidarity. >> good for them. thank you, david. >>> after shooting and killing those two journalists, its gunman took off. virginia state police spotted his -- and that set off a massive manhunt. virgini

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 of the gun pan right now. we'll be right back. ,

alison and our 6:00 anchor chris hurst were dating. kimberly and jean were shattered by the news this morning and our heart go out to family and friends of alison parker and adam ward. >> and we'll continue to remember them. >>> we have updated information that we got in the newsroom. it appears vesterly flanagan, bryce williams, has not died. i. >> virginia state police calling our news director saying -- this is the scene on interstate 66 which is a couple of hours up the pike from roanoke so this is where the suspect went and we are told in a rental car he had gotten at the airport. that is not confirmed. either way, virginia state police called our news director to say the suspected gunman, vesterly flanagan, shot and killed himself. then about two minutes ago we got a call from the virginia state police spokesperson who told us he does have a pulse, is in very critical condition. he is alive. so we are correcting ourselves as virginia state police correct themselves that the suspected gunmen, the suspected killer of two wdbj 7 emp

allison park her moved in with boyfriend chris hurst an anchor at the station from malvern.nd adam ward's fiancee, melissa ott, from gibbstown, new jersey, ott was morning producer at the station. yesterday was her last day on the job. she was taking a new position in a new market. but instead of celebrating with her colleagues, she sat in the control room. she was working and she watched in horror as her fiancee was shot and killed alongside parker on live tv. >> adam was the camera through which you viewers saw much whatever we did, and certainly if it was on the morning news, and out live, you saw adam's work. there is nobody better to work with than those two individuals. >> andy and have i been trying to be strong today because we felt that it was our duty to allison, because she was a journalist, and this is what she would have wanted us to do, to share her story. she was a story teller by profession. we are trying to tell her story. >> you know, i have been alternating between the shock and the grief. i have been, now, i'm holding up i guess okay, but i've been crying

parker and fellow colleague anchor chris hurst had been dating. he writes they were very much in love adding, we just moved in together. i am numb. she was the most radian woman i ever met. for some reason, she loved me back. adam ward was a virginia tech graduate and a huge hoekys fan. >> adam ward walking sports encyclopedia. i would like to talk sports with him more. it kills me to know the college football season is about to start and here he is gone before it ever got to begin. >> reporter: he was engaged to be married to mel list say ott, a morning show producer at the same station. today was her last day before starting a new job in charlotte and ward had planned to join her there. >> the most horrific thing is she was in the control room and watched it happen live. >> reporter: two young lives lost in senseless violence. leaving behind a trail of grief. >> jeffrey marks is wdbj's general manager. jeffrey, thank you for taking the time tonight on just really a difficult night for you and your colleagues. >> thank you, jim. >> i wonder havin

it was there she met her boyfriend, chris hurst, an anchor at the station. ad only been dating nine months but they were in love. it was magical, according to chris, and they had just moved in together. >> yesterday morning, i made her her favorite scrambled eggs and a smoothie, and packed her a lunch. i had never done that before for any woman, for anyone. but i wanted to do it for alison because i loved her so much and took so much joy in something so minor as cutting strawberries for her to pack for her for a lunch. last night, she texted me she got to work safe and said good night, sweet boy, and that was the last i ever heard from her. >> and for alison's father, she is remembered for the joy she had for her work and her colleagues. >> she loved what she did. she loved the people that she worked with. she was happy with her place in life. so, you know, we can only take some solace in the fact that she had a wonderful life. she was extremely happy. and she loved this guy with all her heart. and that's -- that's the toughest thing for me, that she -- every

. >>> meanwhile, the boyfriend of allison parker, evening anchor chris hurst and the station manager talked on "good morning america," they spoke of parker's father, whose life mission is to fight for tougher gun control. >> as a journalist, the issue i look at extensively ismentsal health, there arementsal illnesses in my family that have effected me personally and it's something that i will report on regular regularly. i support her father and i support their family immensely. >> station manager, jason marks says nobody knew he had issues at his previous stations until he started to have problems at wdbj. >> this story continues at 6abc.com, there is reaction from their colleagues and loved ones, all there right now at 6abc.com. >>> in other news, a chain reaction crash in philadelphia's logan section cents one driver to the hospital, this is the scene at old york road at wyoming avenue, a pickup truck collide with the suv and the impact forced the suv into a parked car and on to the sidewalk. >>> philadelphia police are looking for a burglar who busted into larry's steaks in north

. >>> allison parker boyfriend chris hurst a native of our area talks to george stef testify this morning. -- george stephanopoulos this morning. >>> congressman chaka fattah is trying to influence the jury pool boasting by his accomplishments in congress in statements made to reporters and online video in which he touts his record in securing million of dollars from a range of things from job training to medical research all done in the wake of his indictment. prosecutors say some arguments are irrelevant to his guilt or innocence. he is accused of using federal grants or charitable donations. >>> a man involved in a gruesome crime involving his own brother he has been charged with murder and desecration of human remains. his brother disappeared from millville in 2011. police activated on tips and excavated sites around vineland affirm and found remains spread across the city. >>> governor tom wolf will launch the online voter registration site it will make registration more contract than submitting paper forms. pennsylvania is the 21st state to offer registration. >> you know you've rea

. >> allison parker just 24 years old, chris hurst tweeting we did not share this publically, we were in love and we just moved in together, i am numb. >> the young woman also shot in the story, that they were interests viewing no word on her condition and still no word on a possible motive. >>> other news a man is in serious condition this news, philadelphia police shot him in the stomach, they were responding to a robbery call in west philadelphia this morning when the man tried to ambush them. katherine scott is live at the scene with more on this. >> reporter: matt, police say that that suspect intended to ambush the suspect that chased him up walnut street and the suspect hid around this corner and refused to drop his weapon before another officer fired and saved his partner's life. >> a robbery suspect shot, and a gun allegedly his found at the scene. gilbert was in his west philadelphia home and heard a gunshot at 6:00 a.m. >> i started hearing sirens and all of these guys pulled up on the scene. >> heard a whole bunch of helicopters in the air and i wondered what was going on.

allison parker meanwhile, was in a relationship with chris hurst, who can cors the 11:00 p.m. broadcast. he posted a moving tribute to parker is from philadelphia. the outpouring of love and spupt is coming from around the world and right there in virginia from the governor. >> it breaks your heart you think of the families and so many friends and co-workers that are impacted today. >> the gunman vester flannigan recorded it and posted on twitter and facebook and comments paining himself as the victim and his social media accounts have since been suspended. >> many former coworkers came forward as describing flannigan as easily offended and difficult. and when he was fired from wdbj he had to be escorted from the station. >> thank you walter. >>> monica malpass was at the white house today for a one-on-o one-on-one interview with president obama they stused topics including the tragedy in virginia. >> we know that the number of people that die from gun related incidents around this country dwarfs any deaths that happen through terrorism. we are willing to spend trillions of do

while parker was dating the station's anchor, chris hurst. they had been dating for nine - months. and had just moved- in together. parker's father released a statement today saying wuote - "i find my grief unbearable. not hearing her voice again crushes my soul." the shooter. vester flanangan. is a bay area native. some of his family members still live in the north bay. in vallejo today. flanagan's relatives and friends say, they too are in shock. over the horrific tragedy. neighbors say, the family of the 41-year-old. is well respected in the area. they say he never showed any signs of mental health issues. the flanagan family apologized to the victims. and neighbors shared their reactions today. >>:we express our deepest condolences to the families, and we are also pressing for the recovery of >> vicki : gardne--vicki gardner >>:he does everything he can to protect the neighborhood and so to see his own son do this was a big shock >> pam :for continuing coverage. just head to our website. there we have more video and information on the victims and the shooter. this is a live pic

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and parker was dating another reporter, chris hurst, who posted these moving tributes on facebook and twitter. >> we would always be concerned, texting each other when we got to work safely. she texted me, good night, sweet boy. that was the last i ever heard from her. >> reporter: late this evening alison's father and boyfriend spoke with fox news. >> we can only take some solace in the fact that she had a wonderful life. she was extremely happy. and she loved this guy with all her heart. ♪ >> reporter: and the community itself jolted by what it saw on live tv this morning. an unedited murder. tonight leaving flowers and praying in front of the tv station many of them woke up with every morning. for "nightline," i'm j jim avil in roanoke, virginia. >> a sad footnote, one co-worker at their station tweeting that the wedding dress for cameraman adam ward's fiancee was just delivered today. our thoughts are with their grieving families and the wdbj family. >>> up next our journey to meet india's snake charmers. >>> plus what do michelle obama and kim kardashian have in common? designer

parker's love chris hurst grappling with it all tweeting his raw emotion. 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. >> my family and i went to mexico about a year ago and we stayed in dell caramel and it was so neat going to see all the ruins. >> parker fouling about her best vacation ever with her family. who now have to grapple with what just unfolded on air and in their lives. >> the third person shot this morning is vicky gardner who survived. parker was interviewing her about tourism when the shots rang out. gardner is the executive director of the smith mountain lake regional chamber of commerce. she is now in stable condition after under going emergency surgery. >>> again, a difficult day police say 41-year-old vester lee flanagan who went by bryce williams on the air ambushed a tv crew at a shopping center in virginia. he killed wdbj reporter alibi son parker and photographer adam ward and injured the woman who parker was interviewing. williams was a former rep

parker and anchor chris hurst had just moved in together and planned to get married. ey were such good -- they were almost like an old couple, domestic couple. it was really cute to watch them. and, you know, they loved each other very much. >> the father spoke to us, he says, because he wants people to remember alison. >>> a new poll this morning shows donald trump with a huge lead in the republican presidential race. 28% of republicans in the quinnipiac nationwide poll support trump. ben carson is second with 12%. jeb bush, ted cruz and marco rubio are tied for third. the poll shows new jersey governor chris christie in ninth place behind scott walker, john kasich and carly fiorina. governor christie is with us here in studio 57. welcome back. >> good to be back. >>> first the top story, the news of the murders in roanoke. what did you think when you first heard about what happened? >> it's just an awful tragedy. my heart goes out to those folks who suffered that loss, it's a terrible thing. i think most americans are just tired, tired of violence, tired of lawlessne

chris hurst is an anchor there at wdbj. he attended temple university for a year and graduated from conestoga high school. he posted the following on social media. quote. he said she had just celebrated her 24th birthday and had recently moved in together. >>> a cumberland county man accused of killing and dismembering his brother will appear in court today. police arrested david rotter in bridgeton yesterday and his brother steven disappeared in december 2011. authorities say this month they got information that led them to the missing man's remains. they say they found body parts buried all over vineland. >>> the chef and co-owner of pitcher restaurant, capasso has been arrested on child porn charges last month. they say he sexually abused a 5-year-old girl and shared photos of her online. they also say he talked about his desire to abuse his own soon-to-be born daughter. >>> two police-involved shootings in philadelphia within a 24-hour span and latest in germantown where police arrested five men. they say the officers f

she dated chris hurst who worked as an anchor, he is from our area. hurst went to con stone ga high school in better win and attended temple university for a year. hurst tweeted this photo about his girlfriend today, saying she was the most radiant woman i ever met. for some reason she loved me back. the two just celebrated her 24th birthday and had just moved in together. the third american shot on live television, vicky gardner is recovering after surgery. she was being interviewed live at the time of the shooting. stay with nbc10 and nightly news following this broadcast at k67 30 for continuing coverage of the murders of the television news crew in virginia. >>> breaking news in delaware county. a person was hit by an amtrak train near the norwood station. the wilmington newark line has been temporarily suspended. now to a 10-year-old girl caught in the crossfire in philadelphia she's in the hospital tonight with a gunshot graze wound. she was playing on a west philadelphia playground when a bullet grazed her arm, the two men who are targeted are

. >> you will be able to hear from chris hurst tomorrow. now alison parker's father released a statement saying that he is consumed by grief and loss, he writes that not hearing her voice crushes my soul. he writes that although her life was brief she was consumed with the happiness of it. >>> and vicki gardner is the head of the local chamber of commerce in virginia. she was also being interviewed when she too, was shot. tonight, gardner is in stable condition. >> and the gunman, vester fl flanagan was from oakland and went to san jose state. >>> cheryl herd is in vallejo this evening. and flanagan and his family have deep ties here. >> reporter: that is right, we have been outside the flanagan home for hours and we have not seen any family members tonight. it's a tough night for this family. and of course a tough night for the victims' families, as well. who is vester flanagan? well, we talked to neighbors and tried to find out through one family member, as well. >> wow, that was great, you know what? i'm going to have to try this is. >>

she dated chris hurst who was an anchor. he is from our area. he went to conestoga high school and we wanted to temple university. he said in part she was the most radiant woman i ever met and for some reason, she loved me back. he said the two just celebrated her 24th birthday and just moved in together. >>> two police-involved shootings in philadelphia within a span of 24 hours, the latest of those in germantown last night where police arrested five men. now investigators aren't telling us much about this particular case here. they say that the officers fired several shots on pastoria street last night at 10:30. no one was injured in that incident. five people arrested again. yesterday morning, in a story we brought you as breaking news on "nbc 10 news today," an officer shot a suspect after responding to a robbery. in cobbs creek. a suspect refused to drop his gun and he's in the hospital. >>> police arrested david ruaner in bridgeston yesterday. >>> also in court today, the chef and co-owner of pitcher restaurant. capasso has been arrested o

parker and her boyfriend had just moved in together, this morning on the "today" show wdbj anchor chris hurst said he did not watch those videos of the shooting allegedly posted ond social media by vester flanagan. >> what we are starting to see is continued boldness from people who want to commit murders in cold blood for notoriety and he did it to my -- my sweet alison and he did it to adam and i just -- i have no words for him. i have no thoughts for him. >> very emotional. this is what ward's fiancÉ posted on her facebook yesterday, melissa ott writing in part, you were the one, you understood she, my soul mate, i will always love you, please watch over me and keep me strong. enjoy the endless tech games in your etch had. i love you so much. we understand she got her wedding dress delivered yesterday and hurst recalling this morning how he last sent off parker with a kiss yesterday morning. so these are the tidbits of course that really hit us emotionally. meantime we do understand that memorial scholarships are being established in had parker's and ward's name. stephanie chuang, "today i