Vicki Gardner, the lone survivor of a brazen shooting which killed two journalists on live television, has been released from hospital, according to the Virginia television station where the two victims worked.
Gardner, the head of the local Chamber of Commerce, was being interviewed by Alison Parker and Adam Ward when the shooting started.
The two journalists were killed, but she survived, spending the last two weeks in hospital.
She was released from Carillion Roanoke Memorial Hospital on Monday, according to WDBJ7 in Virginia. Her husband, Tim Gardner, told the television station that she underwent two surgeries as a result of the shooting and the bullet came within “centimetres” of killing her.
The shooter, identified shortly after the shooting as former journalist and colleague to Parker and Ward, Vester Flanagan (also known as Bryce Williams) fled before shooting himself on Interstate 66 after a police pursuit. He was taken to hospital where he died of the self-inflicted injuries.
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