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On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBSaffiliate WDBJin Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally shot while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lakein Moneta. They were interviewing Vicki Gardner, executive director of the local chamber of ...
Arson. Earl Conrad Bramblett (March 20, 1942 – April 9, 2003) was an American mass murderer, convicted for the killing of four members of the Hodges family in August 1994 in Vinton, Virginia. Bramblett murdered each family member in their residence before setting it on fire, and in 1997 was sentenced to death for the murders.
WSLS-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, United States, serving the Roanoke– Lynchburg market as an affiliate of NBC. Owned by Graham Media Group, the station maintains studios on Fifth Street in Roanoke, and its transmitter is located on Poor Mountain in Roanoke County. It is the third-oldest continuously ...
The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university, killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with ...
Missing persons cases along U.S. Route 29 in Virginia. Since 1996, there has been an unusually high number of cases involving young women disappearing along U.S. Route 29 (US 29) in Virginia, or an area known as the "Route 29 Corridor". [1] Five young women disappeared in five years between 2009 and 2014, earning it a particularly notorious ...
Roanoke County ( / ˈroʊ.əˌnoʊk / ROH-ə-nohk) is a county in the U.S. state of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, its population was 96,929. [2] Its county seat is Salem, but the county administrative offices are located in the census-designated place of Cave Spring. [3]
Robert "Big Bob" Francis [5] Pagan's Motorcycle Club, or simply the Pagans, is an outlaw motorcycle club formed by Lou Dobkin in 1957 in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. [1] [6] The club rapidly expanded and by 1959, the Pagans, originally clad in blue denim jackets and riding Triumphs, began to evolve along the lines of the ...
The Backstreet Cafe is a bar in Roanoke, Virginia that largely catered to gay men. [3] [4] On September 22, 2000, Ronald Gay entered the bar and opened fire on the patrons, killing Danny Overstreet, 43 years old, and severely injuring six others. [5] Ronald said he was angry over what his surname had now come to meant.