URGENT | Suspect in shooting of reporter, cameraman during live broadcast dies at hospital

MONETA, Va. (AP) — An official said the suspect in shooting of reporter, cameraman during live broadcast has died at hospital.

A TV reporter and cameraman were shot to death during a live television interview today by a gunman, identified as Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, of Roanoke, who recorded himself carrying out the killings and posted the video on social media after fleeing the scene.

Authorities identified the suspect as a journalist who had been fired from the station earlier this year. Hours later and hundreds of miles away, he crashed a vehicle and troopers found him suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.