“From a law enforcement perspective. The least number of times that media mentions this guys name it reduces the number of copycat situations. A lot of these people do these types of shootings for the notoriety,“ Chuck Canterbury, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, told The Daily Caller.
WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were allegedly gunned down Wednesday in Roanoke by Vester Lee Flanagan, a disgruntled former reporter at the news station who was recently fired from his position. The entire event happened while Parker was doing a live broadcast. Flanagan died of a self-inflicted gun-shot wound shortly after the incident.
Flannagan himself was a copy cat shooter. In a suicide note sent to ABC News two hours after the shooting, according to reports, Flanagan praised the Virginia Tech shooter, Columbine killers and said that his “tipping point” was the Charleston church shooting.