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Wasnt going anywhere without them being able to track him down. >> what found interesting is that he put himself out there. he was the one that put the video of the shooting on facebook. he was tweeting so clearly he had to know police were going to be on him very soon. >> i dont think he intended to evade. i think he intended to have a spectacle. >> he had his own car, he dropped off that car, he rented a car a couple days earlier at the airport, dropped his car at the airport, took the rented ...

The regional roanoke region airport. flanagan then left the airport in a chevrolet sonic that he had rented earlier in the month. >> reporter: these tweets started around 11:10. around the same time police discovered he switched vehicles. hes posting things to social media while on the run first trying to justify why he went after alison parker and adam ward and then unbelievably posting video he filmed while killing them. what the shooter didnt know is the same phone he was using to post those ...

In that manifesto its just a patch work of disjointed rationales pointing to the charleston church shooting. why did i do it? i put down a deposit on 6-19-15. the church shooting in charleston happened on 6-17-15. two glok nine millimeters were purchased about him. as for daniel roof deleted you bring it you white deleted. the madness ends. just before 11:30 a.m. virginia state police spot the silver mustang on interstate 66. this time the murderer avoid a real gunfight speeding away before runn...

Killed. david lee miller is live in new york with more. >> harris, the legal name of the shooter is vester flanagain but was known as bryce williams for his air name. according to reports he moments interstate 66 in virginia. we know williams worked in a number of stations greenville, savannah georgia, san francisco, and midland, texas. and in san francisco he said i was hired as a production assistant, liked and able to come back after the texas fiasco, no explanation on what that was. it was a...

Dispatched police cars to every television station as a precaution until they could get a grip as to what exactly was happening and taking place. again, it turned out to be a case of workplace violence with former employee targeting two of his former workers, tw of them killed and as you said vicki gardner, being interviewed from the chamber of commerce there, shot and injured. she was shot in the back. went into surgery and now were told is in stable condition. >> and we are still waiting to ge...

Off the scene of the accident on i-66, virginia state troopers say he drove his car off the road. taking a shot at himself. trying to take his own life. before being apprehended. original reports before noon was that he was deceased because of the self-inflicted injury and then that was reversed saying there was a pulse. he was in critical condition. now our pete williams is saying that he has information, fresh information after vester flanagan was taken to a d.c. area hospital for treatment th...

At the time of the act. ashleigh banfield spoke with wdbj station manager jeffrey marks about the man, vester flanagan. the conversation taking place shortly before news broke that flanagan shot himself while being chased on i-66 by police. look at this. >> tell us right now about vester flanagan who went by bryce williams, this disgruntled employee. >> well. >> weve agreed to try to cooperate with authorities and not do their job for them. but that this is an individual who came to work with us...

Found the driver suffering from a gunshot wound. they described the wound as life threatening. they say hes being transported to a nearby hospital. they say the male driver is believed to be the same person who fired the shots this morning in franklin county on the live television broadcast. they say that the sheriffs office, the franklin county sheriffs office down where this happened now will hold a news conference at 2:00 this afternoon to offer further detail. they initially had said 1:00, n...

It then came to light that one of the last acts that adam ward did was use the camera to capture the face of vester flanagan and there you see it right there as that camera is tipped on the ground giving us a different perspective and altered right side up and see the man holding the gun over the body of adam ward. police were able to quickly put this together. i.d. who the suspect, the person of interest was. able to find him later this morning along i-66. and thats when things all started to c...

Condition. this is where this all went down. this is a picture from interstate 66 in fauquier county, virginia. joe, about how far would you say, you have traveled up and down this pike a million times. how far is this from roanoke or from moneta? what we understand is that flanagan apparently rented a car, went down to the lake, again this is all unconfirmed, but this is the theory, and then fled the shooting scene and took off on interstate 81 north to 66. joe, how far away is this? >> 66 is t...