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Two Virginia television journalists fatally shot in on-air attack[READ OP]
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DoktorEvil
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So the usual?
Zabant
Member
So basically 'the young pretty white girl got my job, that's racist so i'm gonna kill her'
This story is really going to appeal to so many different (and opposing) groups in terms of furthering their agendas. In the end people will completely forget the victim...
I think I need to go do something else before I get madly depressed.
Maninthemirror
Banned
this was my first thought as well. this (POV violent shootings) can't become a trend
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
If you watch the POV video he is purposely targeting Alison Parker. He brings up the gun and whispers bitch before firing shots straight at her. It seems to me that he must have a motive and was specifically targeting her.
He doesn't try and hit each person with a shot or anything like that. This was a man who had a grudge against her for some reason.
He doesn't try and hit each person with a shot or anything like that. This was a man who had a grudge against her for some reason.
Baron_Calamity
Member
The part that sickens me is now this is a thing. Now all the wannabes will want to upload videos.
Ambition
Member
smh
Absolutely repulsive.
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
Banned
My Facebook feed is filled with links to the videos. Really great way to do exactly what this killer intended. Fucking shameful.
It's irrelevant what the two may or may not have done, besides his accusations couldn't be corroborated and he was generally known as an angry man. The only person to blame is the disgusting individual who did the act.
I feel for the families and loved ones, not only of the two who died but the ones who are related to the killer. It must be horrific.
I feel for the families and loved ones, not only of the two who died but the ones who are related to the killer. It must be horrific.
helloresolven
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Good thing that's not Gawker. It's like posting a tweet and blaming Twitter for it.
Summer Haze
Banned
Well obviously I wouldn't want people to watch it because seeing such things are horrifying and it stays with you for life. But I also understand that morbid curiosity is very powerful. It's a very tricky thing to talk and think rationally about and I didn't even understand it fully myself until I read that wiki quote.
tycoonheart
Member
Why are some of you guys giving any credence to a madman's accusations?
morbid curiosity is a bitch
CharminUltra
Member
Absolutely awful. No words.
EdReedFan20
Member
I don't know why this keeps getting regurgitated, but no, they were not. The reporter was engaged to another reporter at the same station. The camera man was engaged to a producer at the station (she was in the control room watching the shooting happen live). Today was the producer's last day with the station. She and her fiance (the camera man) were moving to another city and another station. Her day went from bittersweet happiness to the total opposite. The reporter's fiance tweeted they had just recently moved in together and their relationship had not gone public yet. Sad way to have to announce that.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Some of his tweets seem to indicate that she replaced him.
gutterboy44
Member
Exactly this for me. I have watched some shit on Liveleak through the years, and I definitely regret some of it, but I always remain curious. The second I saw the gun come up with him point blank I stopped the video. It really made me upset in a way fucked up videos tend not to and I stopped it before a shot was even fired. So awful and terrifying.
Seeing it put like this struck a chord with me. That video could go on to become an important document in the history of gun control. It's just so brutal and shocking -- broadcast live, of all things... and yet you kind of forget that there are friends and family that are going to have to endure that.
Shit.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
That Breitbart article is insane.
And there's going to be more where that came from and its going to get ugly. Typically the only scenario where some will talk about race. The victims will take a backseat to their agenda for all they care.
Woooooooooow
Ya, it's one person on that site making a stupid comment. That's like if some idiot posted the same thing on Gaf and we blamed the whole site for it.
The guy wanted to die as an easy way out, and now as a doctor you have the opportunity to deprive him of that want.
Good enough?
Baron_Calamity
Member
You only get the first 3 shots on camera and they are all aimed at her. At least two hit her. However the camera goes blank (my guess is he decided to put the phone in his pocket) and the firing continues for another 10 seconds or so. I'm not sure how many shots were aimed at which person during that time period.
Yup, tweets and the timeline of his being fired and her being hired.
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
Ok so he's pissed that he was replaced and decides that the best thing to do is kill her and one other? This world man.
I'm going to make an assumption here in that he must know he hit her and then decided to fire at the other two people as they tried to run away (when the screen goes black) but he is definitely out to kill Alison.
Drilbit777
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Such a terrible thing to happen to those, my best wishes to the loved ones and families.
Spreading the video around is only giving the killer more attention and encouraging copycats to do the same.
Spreading the video around is only giving the killer more attention and encouraging copycats to do the same.
Eighty Deuce
Banned
Genie is out of the bottle, expect copycats. This is the first time someone has ever done something on this level.
Baron_Calamity
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I don't think anyone really is. People are just searching for a why.
With what we know right now, his motive could be anything. I wouldn't throw that around because race doesn't have anything to do with it. I was just making a point that I can easily see how an indignant person with delusions that he/she is "owed" something in one of these positions could very well spin whatever story they want to justify their actions.
When I was offered my position on air, I had multiple people who had been there longer than Myself (basically, I just strolled in and was offered a job based on my skill/professional references) hold a grudge against me. I'm incredibly nice and helpful and outgoing, but in their world I slighted them.
Eighty Deuce
Banned
Probably both
Future PhaZe
Member
Either or both
Dedication Through Light
Member
This type of shit has only been hypothetically conceived of in TV/Movies till now.
Now we have it happening for real. (The filming part.)
Both are possible. Being on live tv where people nobody can keep the footage from being shown and uploading to the net where it goes viral and won't ever vanish. Some attenton crawing psychos probably love the idea and just never had the idea.
In Germany it was running amok in schools. It stopped when media wised up and didn't give the perpetrators themselves attention.
Amory
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guns are not ever going to be banned in the US. it's never going to happen. so more constructive and realistic ideas need to be thought up instead.
Zoe
Member
He claimed the cameraman reported him to HR in the past.
DoktorEvil
Banned
We are all trying to understand why. I seriously doubt that mental illness played a role here, but here we have a ton of posts acting as armchair shrinks.
theres a difference between ban and control, shame a lot of people don't realise that
Summer Haze
Banned
I still can't get over the fact that we witnessed the events unfold the way we did. That someone can murder two people and a short time later upload the PoV footage to social media for the world to see. Crazy times.
RustyNails
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Any way to get a peek at the memo?
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