The man who shot and killed a Virginia TV reporter and photographer live on the air Wednesday was immediately recognized by station employees as their former colleague, the station's general manager said Thursday.
Coworkers gathered and looked at a chilling image, captured by cameraman Adam Ward as he lay dying. It was the killer, looking into the lens and pointing his gun.
"Everybody who was gathered around it said, 'That's Vester,'" the general manager, Jeffrey Marks, told NBC's "Today" show Thursday. "And I wasn't sure. They were."
He said the information was immediately passed to the county sheriff, helping authorities identify Vester Flanagan, who was fired from the station two years earlier after other WDBJ employees found him difficult to work with.
The reporter, Alison Parker, and Ward were killed, and a local businesswoman who was being interviewed was shot and wounded.
