WDBJ slayings: Killer fired 17 rounds, identified with 9/11 attackers, police say - CNN
WDBJ sent a news crew to a high school football game Friday night, the first live event the station has covered since a reporter and cameraman were shot to death on the air Wednesday morning. The shooting victims, Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, were public faces in the tight-knit community of Roanoke, so the killings were on everybody's mind as Northside High faced Pulaski County in the season opener. Number 7's -- for the station's channel number -- were painted on the 30-yard-lines of the football field. Identified with 9/11 attackers Vester Lee Flanagan fired 17 rounds from a Glock pistol in killing Parker, 24, and Ward, 27, and wounding the chamber of commerce official Parker was interviewing, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said Friday in... Flanagan, 41, a disgruntled former station employee, identified "with individuals who have committed domestic acts of violence and mass murder, as well as the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U. S. ," investigators said, based on writings he sent... Other details from the release: Investigators recovered two handguns, both Glocks, from the rental vehicle Flanagan crashed on I-66 in Fauquier County before killing himself. The killing, investigators said, was "well-planned and premeditated. Inside the subcompact four-door sedan -- a far cry from his usual ride, a 2009 Ford Mustang -- police found a wig, a black hat, a shawl, sunglasses and a to-do list. Source: www.cnn.com
