Virginia TV news reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot dead during a live interview August 29th, Wednesday morning. This incident has made headlines and shocked media across the nation.

The man who killed the two journalists during the live broadcast was no stranger to WDBJ-TV. The shooter, Bryce Williams, also known as Vester Lee Flanagan, was a reporter for the Roanoke, Virginia station until he was fired two years ago. According to court documents, Williams made co-workers feel “threatened and uncomfortable” with offensive verbal and body language on multiple occasions. Two months later, Williams received a written warning saying that he needed to improve his actions or he would be fired. He was later fired within 11 months of having the job. On the day he was fired, February 1st 2013, the news station had to call 911. Williams went on a rampage. He sued one former employee for racial discrimination but the case was later dismissed.

That Wednesday morning, two videos were posted under Bryce Williams’ twitter account. The video was from a first-person perspective and showed the reporter, photojournalist, and interviewee in the moments before the shooting. The tweet from the account simply said, “I filmed the shooting.” The tweet caught a lot of attention and began to spread, and the twitter account was immediately suspended. The shooting occurred at 6:45 a.m. at Smith Mountain Lake.

ABC News said they received a 23-page fax from Bryce Williams two hours after shooting. Bryce Williams also called ABC twice in the hours after the shooting. Williams states in his fax letter, “Yes, it will sound like I am angry…I am. And I have every right to be. But when I leave this Earth, the only emotion I want to feel is peace,” he wrote. “The church shooting was the tipping point…but my anger has been building steadily…I’ve been a human powder keg for a while…” Dr. Harold Schwartz, the psychiatrist-in-chief at Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital, says, “This is obviously not an emotionally stable person, this is a very, very angry person who would seem in some ways to be perhaps delusional.” Dr. Schwartz describes people like Williams as “insidiously dangerous.”

Alison Parker was interviewing Vicki Gardner, and Adam Ward was running the camera when Williams began shooting. After a round of shots was fired the camera fell to the ground and the broadcast cut back to the anchor in studio. Later, the station reported Alison Parker and Adam Ward dead. Vicki Gardner was shot in the back and underwent surgery.

Federal officials and Augusta County Sheriff’s Department authorities traced Williams’ phone to locate him. At 11:30 a.m., Virginia State Police saw the car they supposed Williams was driving headed towards the freeway. Troopers tried to pull him over, but he refused to stop and sped away before running off the road and crashing into an embankment in Fauquier County. Troopers found Williams inside with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Virginia State Police Tyler told reporters he was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead Wednesday afternoon.