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On August 26, 2015, 24-year-old news reporter Alison Parker and 27-year-old photojournalist Adam Ward, employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ of Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia, when they were murdered by a gunman.[4] The person they were interviewing, 61-year-old Vicki Gardner of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce,[1][5] was shot in the back during the attack but survived. Parker and Ward died at the scene. They were the seventh and eighth journalists to be killed in the line of work in the United States since 1992.[6]
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