At 6:45 a.m. on August 24, 2015, one of the most horrific and outrageous acts of violence in the history of the American workplace occurred.   

That morning, 24-year-old WDBJ7-TV news reporter Alison Parker, and 27-year-old videographer Adam Ward, were at their particular work location in a tranquil setting near Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia.

Parker was conducting a live on-air interview of Vicki Gardner, an executive with a local chamber of commerce, while Ward filmed them. As the three professionals went about their business at hand, a fourth figure on a deadly mission went about his.

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