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Update: Journalists shot dead during TV live broadcast (Photos)
 
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Wed, 26 Aug 2015   ||   Nigeria,
 

Two members of a television news crew were killed on Wednesday, during a live broadcast in Franklin County, Va., this was stated according to the crew’s station.

The local sheriff’s department confirmed that the shooter remains at large.

Video of the broadcast begins like any local news report, but turns grisly as the on-camera reporter screams and a gun can be heard firing multiple times. The video ends with the camera on the ground before cutting to a clearly distressed anchor.

WDBJ7, the crew’s station, identified the victims as photographer Adam Ward, 27, and reporter Alison Parker, 24.

 Parker was a graduate of James Madison University and Ward graduated from Virginia Tech, according to the station.

The incident occurred at Bridgewater Plaza, a shopping center in Moneta, Va. Local law enforcement remains on the scene, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has joined the manhunt for the suspect.

 

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