Virginia reporters’ slayings detailed

The former reporter who killed two Virginia TV journalists on live television this week shot both victims in the body and the head, the medical examiner’s office said Friday.

WDBJ-TV reporter Alison Parker, 24, was shot in the head and chest, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, was shot in the head and torso, according to the state medical examiner’s office in Roanoke, Va.

Former WDBJ reporter Vester Lee Flanagan II also shot the woman the journalists were interviewing, local Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Vicki Gardner, in the back, her husband said.

Tim Gardner was watching the journalists interview his wife Wednesday morning on live TV about the 50th anniversary of Smith Mountain Lake when Flanagan ambushed the group.

Parker and Ward were dead and Flanagan had fled when Vicki Gardner got up and “walked to the ambulance after being shot,” her husband told ABC News.

“The surgeon told me a couple centimeters [difference in the wound] and she wouldn’t be walking, and she wouldn’t be alive,” he said.

Flanagan, who went by the on-air name of Bryce Williams, died after shooting himself in the head hours later after a car chase with police.

Before dying, Flanagan, who was black, had faxed a manifesto to ABC News that complained about discrimination and that praised the mass shooters at Virginia Tech and Columbine High School.