26/08/2015 6:45am Vicki Gardner was reporting for WDBJ7's "Mornin'" show, Adam Ward was filming. Adam Ward is filming Alison Parker as she interviews Vicki Gardner of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce. They are standing on a balcony overlooking Bridgewater Plaza in Franklin County. A man who would later be named as Vester Lee Flanagan II (AKA Bryce Williams) approaches the three, also filming with his phone, and begins shooting after waiting for several moments.Ward and Parker are both killed, with Gardner escaping with a gun-shot wound to the back. Flanagan escapes.

8:26am Flanagan sends a rambling 26-page fax to ABC News under his stage name of Bryce Williams. The note makes broad allegations of racism and homophobia. In it, he describes himself as "a human powder keg... waiting to go BOOM!!!!". He says his anger has "been building steadily" and he had ordered the murder weapon in the days after Dylan Roof's attack on a Charleston church in June. He also praises the Virginia Tech and Columbine shooters, saying that Jehova told him to act.

9:15am Alison Parker and Adam Ward. Jeffrey Marks, WDBJ7's general manager says that two crew members were fatally shot on air in Moneta, Virginia. He identifies the victims as Alison Parker and Adam Ward.

10:40am Virginia Governor Terry McAulife says that police are chasing a suspect. His arrest, McAulife says, is imminent. The Governor says on WTOP radio that the suspect is believed to be a disgruntled ex-employee of WDBJ-TV. He says police are pursuing the suspect on Insterstate 64.

11:00am Roanoke police locate Flanagan's grey Ford Mustang at the city's airport. Flanagan had left the airport in a Chevrolet Sonic he had earlier rented. A Virginia state trooper locates Flanagan using license plate recognition equipment and pursues Flanagan. State Police Sergeant Rick Garletts says the trooper followed Flanagan until backup arrived before turning on her flashing lights.

11:05am Vester Lee Flanagan II worked under the name of Bryce Williams. Becky Coyner, of the Augusta County Sherriff's Office says the suspect is 41-year-old Vester Lee Flanagan II, of Roanoke.

11:15pm Flanagan posts his first-person video of the shooting on Twitter and Facebook. The video shows him slowly walking up to the three victims, waiting, and the starting to shoot. The video is accompanied by several tweets which make various accusations of Parker and Ward's conduct towards him.

11:30am The rented Chevrolet Sonic Within a few minutes of the trooper turning on her lights, Flanagan speeds off the road and is found with gunshot wounds which would prove to be fatal.

11:55am ABC News announces its earlier receipt of Flanagan's fax. The news organisation is already cooperating fully with the police.

12:45pm Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital announce on Facebook that Vicki Gardner, the interviewee, is recovering after surgery.