People are going to be talking about
this for the next few days so I felt that I should write about it.
Recently at work someone asked me if I had heard about the Paris
train attack and I said no. When asked why I said “I try my best to
choose what I absorb.” What I mean by that is I barely watch the
news, don't care much for world issues, and the only things that I
pick up on are from social media or friends telling me. I'm
comfortably ignorant. I know some people will read that and sigh or
feel bad for me. Don't. This is a nice place to be. This post will be
about a shooting that was aired on live television. You probably shouldn't keep reading this if you're sensitive.
During a live on the scene broadcast at
6:45am WDBJ reporter Alison Parker who was 24 years old and 27 year old
cameraman Adam Ward a former employee of the news station Bryce
Williams aka Lester Flanagan walked up and shot and killed
them. The lady being interviewed, Vicki Gardner, was shot in the back
and as of this writing in surgery. Ward's fiancee was in the control
room when this happened and saw him shot.
