Colleagues of the two journalists who were shot and killed during a live newscast Wednesday morning paid tribute to their fallen colleagues.
The two WDBJ journalists, reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, were shot during a live segment earlier that morning.
“He was the kind of guy on his way home from work and heard about something breaking — he would turn around and go do it,” said Jeff Marks, general manager of WDBJ.
“No matter what was going on, she was a positive person,” Marks said.
The colleagues recounted memories of the two journalists, who worked in the mornings.
“We’re all in a state of shock here. You can hear people behind us in the newsroom crying,” said newscaster Jean Jadhon.
Watch the 12-minute tribute below:
Such a feeling of hopelessness overcomes me every time there is another story of innocent lives lost in gun violence. We mourn the lost ones for a few days. We remember them in the anniversaries of their needless deaths. After a while, it’s all forgotten. Gun laws, if anything, become more lax. Then the cycle beings again…days, weeks, or months later when yet another life is blotted out.