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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 that he is now deceased. so again, we are getting this fresh information in that 41-year-old vester fl...

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. >> we've 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 as a reporter and about two years ago, i'm thinking, we had to separate him from the company. and ...

Found the driver suffering from a gunshot wound. they described the wound as life threatening. they say he's 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 sheriff's office, the franklin county sheriff's 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, now they're saying 2:00. so we're still waiting to hear the condition of vester lee flanagan, the ...

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 that's when things all started to come to light that this person, vester flanagan, also known as bryce williams, is a former reporter,...

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 the connector between 81 and washington, d.c. i can't tell you exactly where that spot is on the inte...