(CNN) Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe connected the shooting deaths of two journalists Wednesday morning in his state to easy access to guns.

"There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns," McAuliffe said on WTOP. "There is too much gun violence in America."

Vester Flanagan, a former WDBJ-TV reporter who was sought in connection with the shooting that killed reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, shot himself shortly after the incident on Interstate 66, officials told CNN, and later died.

Both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates tweeted their sympathies to the station, with some calling for greater gun control in the wake of the shooting.

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