at inova fairfax hospital. you know the helicopter transported his critically injured body, touched down at 1:11 p.m. we have that video. it was only about 15 minutes later that he was pronounced dead. at 1:26 p.m. now the painstaking work of trying to understand and determine a motive. get this, wdbj general manager jeff marks says that flanagan who went by the name "bryce williams" on air as a reporter was "troubd," an angry employee. "difficult to work with." when he was dismissed he was escorted out of the building by security. fellow coworkers were so concerned about their safety. this official says that flanagan filed an eeoc complaint alleging that racial comments had been directed at him. station management quite frankly believed that these remarks by flanagan were actually fabricated. and that eeoc officials actually dismissed this claim. also, yankee said they receive -- also, abc news said they received wednesday morning two hours after the shooting what they believe to be flanagan's manifesto. now t

then the gunman was taken to the inova fairfax hospital where he later died. team coverage of the on-air ambush. begin with northern virginia bureau chief jeff goldberg live in moneta with the latest. jeff, what is the latest at this hour? jeff: well, leon, we can tell you that the bridgewater plaza where the shooting took place this morning remains closed off as the investigators continue looking into the question of why this happened. the wdbj tv live truck used in the broadcast still parked in the parking lot. as the community continues dealing dealing with the shock and pain. on-air am buck, shots fired as alison parker wrapped up a live interview with photographer adam ward. >> let us not forget they grew up in this area. they were part of our community. jeff: ward was part of finding his own killer. his camera continued to roll after he fell to the ground. capturing images of vester flanagan, the man suspected of killing them both and also identified as a former wdbj employee who went by the name bryce williams on air. police do not know whether he speci

now, inova fairfax hospital will tush his body over to virginia state police. he will be taken to the state medical examiner's office to determine the cause of his death. but unofficially, the sheriff of franklin county has already labeled it a suicide. that's the latest live in fairfax county, chris gordon, news4. >>> and new information is just coming in on the shooter's workplace history, including a connection to one of today's victims. tisha thompson with the news4 i-team live with at our news deck. >> reporter: according to court document, wdvj's newsroom called 911 to physically remove reporter vester flanagan from the station when he was fired and actually to lift him from his chair. those records state the incident was also recorded by a station photographer, adam ward. that is the same photographer who was shot and killed this morning. flanagan was his legal name but for more than 20 year, he went by a different name on television, bryce williams. flanagan worked tv jobs in san francisco, midland, texas and savannah, georgia, before starting at the nb

he initially survived and was airlifted to inova fairfax hospital in falls church. news4's chris gordon picks up our team coverage from there now chris? >> reporter: it was because on the scene, along i-66, virginia state police discovered that flanagan had a pulse. they immediately ordered a medevac helicopter to fly him here to inova fairfax hospital. he landed on the heliport and was greeted by the trauma team. they rushed him inside. it was 1:10 this afternoon. they worked on him. he was said to be in very, very critical condition with life-threatening injuries. at one point, a team of fairfax county police officers, some riding motorcycles, reported here to the hospital to stand guard, just in case flanagan survived. but at 1:26, despite best he have forts, he was pronounced dead on the scene and now, he is being turned over to virginia state police and will be taken to the virginia state medical examiner's office for an autopsy. that is the latest live in inova fairfax county, chris gordon, news4. >>> virginia senator mark warner released this statement -- >>>

he died in the inova fairfax hospital. he went by the name of price williams on the air. not long after the shooting he posted angry comments online, seemingly justifying the shooting on facebook and twitter. and this is how police say they found him. now one reporter at wdbj says she wants anyone who can -- who can to remember the victims in a special way today. you take a look here, she made this for the victims to honor parker and ward. the reporter says they have turquoise because that was parker's favorite color. these ribbons. ward loved maroon because he graduated from virginia tech. we're following every angle of the story, including how the community is coming together. you can down load more from the nbc washington app. >>> d.c.'s mayor is expected to ask for more power to fight crime in the district. mayor muriel bowser took her plan to council members yesterday. and she'll make it public today at 10:30. part of the plan is to allow police to search and detain people who are on probation for violent and gun related crimes. 45% of suspects arrested for murder th

the accused gunman, a former reporter, vester lee flanagan, pronounced hours ago at inova fairfax hospitalhooting and killing reporter alison parker and her photographer, adam ward, during a live tv interview on wdvj outside of roanoke this morning. >> flanagan shot himself after a chase on i-66 in fauquier county. he is also accused of sending disturbing tweets and messages about why he carried out this deadly ambush using his old tv name, bryce williams. we begin with team coverage on this evening. good evening, everybody. >> we have crews from the scene in hardee, virginia, to the chase on i-66 to the hospital at innova fairfax. when begin with northern virginia reporter david culver live on the scene. david? >> reporter: jim and wendy, as we were making our drive down here, i started reaching out to some of the reporters, given that we all work closely together. so i reached out to some of the others who work in this community. as soon as we got here, you could tell there was this true sense of loss, this unsettled feeling amongst everybody who was standing by for a press conference, r

shootings as he pulled the trigger and later shot himself on i-66 in faquier county and died at inova fairfaxhospital. tonight, the museum dedicated display to alison parker and adam ward. newsrooms around the country create second families. we spend more time here than with our real families and we see the best and the worst of humanity together. we cry together and laugh together. we develop such close bonds. that was especially true at wdbj in roanoke, where loved ones watched loved ones die on live television today. split seconds after the shooting, morning anchor kimberly manages to maintain her composure. >> we will let you know as soon as we find out. kimberly: breaking news often means someone's heart is broken. >> sad duty to report that -- kimberly: on this day, heart of the entire wdbj7 news family. >> alison and adam died this morning. kimberly: general manager paint two portraits of two journalists in love. 24-year-old reporter alison parker was living with the fellow news anchor chris hurst who told marks -- >> i can't just tell you one thing. she was everything. kimberly: 27-ye

soon after arriving at inova fairfax hospital, vester flanagan, the man who gunned journalists, diedm a self-inflicted gunshot wound. the 41-year-old went by the on air name bryce williams while reporting at wdbj from the 12to 2013. according to station general manager jeff remarks, he was dismissed in 2014 following angry outbursts and bizarre behavior. flanagan alleged wrongful termination, a hostile work environment, and harassment. in the kc said, "what i encountered while employed at was nothing short of vile, disgusting, and inexcusable. your honor, i am not the monster here." internal memo showed numerous times how coworkers felt threatened by flanagan's behavior. on the day he was fired, one coworker's said that vester "i'm not leaving, i'm going to make a stink and it will be of the headlines." while roanoke these officers escorted him out of the point, he was yelling and cursing employees and photojournalist adam ward, wednesdays victim, was recording the tirade. wednesday morning, less than two hours after the shooting, vester flanagan sent abc news a manifesto. he said th

. >> reporter: flanagan was flown to inova fairfax where he later died. reporting in the newsroom i'm ellison barber, wusa9. >> flanagan reportedly sent a 23 page manifesto to abc news and in that he claims the shootings were a reaction to the june massacre at the emanuel church in charleston. >>> like many jobs people in the tv news industry know people at other tv stations all across town or all across the nation and one of the reporters who used to work with alison parker is a reporter now at our sister station in charlotte. >> he talked about alison and reaction to news of her death with anchor ben thompson. >> for the first time today it really was somebody i knew really well. it's just horrible. it's a horrible feeling of literally being sick to your stomach. >> reporter: daniel got the news this morning from a text of a friend. he was on his way to work and had to pull over to the side of the road. dan and alison first met in the small market for tv in north carolina and moved on and up to bigger cities, dan to charlotte and alison to roanoke. >> s

flanagan was flown from the scene to inova fairfax hospitals where he died. >> reporter: the killer was 41. his victims were 24 and 27 both at the start of their careers and lives. >> hay, everyone, i'm alison parker. >> reporter: parker was 24 and the reporter colleagues called a rock star. she grew up outside roanoke and treasured her family. she talked about them in this recent facebook video. >> my hobby is whitewater kayaking. it's something that my family does all the time. >> reporter: she was dating coworker and wdbj anchor chris hurst. >> the last thing she said to me was good night sweet boy. >> reporter: adam ward landed his job as a cameraman four years ago. ward was engaged to the morning news producer, melissa ott who watched the horrifying scene unfold on live tv while she was in the studio control room. >> i don't want to make him sound like anything other than what he was. a coward. >> reporter: live back in roanoke now, the expressions of sorrow are pouring in here. the folks inside this building have started collecting them to give to the families of the victims. adam

that helicopter then took him to a inova fairfax hospital where he was pronounced dead 1:30 this afternoon this happened just hours after the shooting live on air. paul, how did police track vester flanagan down? >> reporter: it's an unusual story. perhaps you've seen these tag readers on the back of police cruisers. i'm sure you have them in the philadelphia area. you've seen them. they're basically cameras on the back of a police cruiser and as they drive along, these cameras record license plates as they're driving. the trooper the virginia state trooper who actually spotted this came here to talk to us today. the story she told us what unusual. she said she was sitting on the ramp from i81 to eastbound 66 when she got a radio call giving her the tag number of the car they believed the shooter to be in. it was a chevy silver chevy sonic. she said she typed in that tag number into her reader and, bang, all of a sudden it said that the car had passed her just three minutes before. she was able to pull up a picture of the plate and see that it was the car. she then took off in pursuit on i