station mourns journalists

Virginia shooting:  television station mourns journalists killed live on air;

Journalist Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward worked together every day,

 

Staff at a US TV station in Virginia have held a minute's silence in memory of the two journalists shot dead by a disgruntled ex-colleague live on air.

"We will, over time, heal from this," WDBJ7 anchor Kim McBroom told viewers, holding hands with two colleagues.

Vester Flanagan died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after he shot dead reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward on Wednesday.

The attack has prompted renewed calls for stricter gun control laws.

The Twitter and Facebook accounts of Bryce Williams, Flanagan's on-air name, have been suspended

Memos from the station reveal Flanagan, who used the on-air name of Bryce Williams, had been ordered by the station's bosses to seek medical help before he was fired in February 2013.

He filmed the attack and posted it on social media. In a 23-page fax he sent to ABC News, he described himself as a "human powder keg".

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