CNN, journalist shootingsThe former reporter who allegedly killed two TV journalists in Virginia during an on-air live segment today from Moneta apparently killed himself while being persued by police and federal agents, according to law enforcement officials

Vester L. Flanagan II, the suspect in the slayings, died at a hospital this afternoon of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Franklin County sheriff Bill Overton.

Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, died while working on a piece for WDBJ-TV, the CBS affiliate serving the Roanoke-Lynchburg area. A third person, Vicki Gardner, was injured in the attack.

The attack, which caught on camera, occurred at 6:45 at a shopping and entertainment center as Parker and Ward were interviewing Gardner, staffer at the local chamber of commerce.

Flanagan, 41, was a producer, reporter and anchor at WDBJ until he was let go in February 2013. He filed discrimination suit against the station in May 2014. A judge dismissed the case two months later.

The Commitee to Protect Journalists condemned the fatal shooting and sent condolences to the journalists' families and colleagues, according to senior Americas program coordinator Carlos Lauria.

"We do not yet know the motive of the attack that killed Alison Parker and Adam Ward, but we do know that being a journalist is potentially dangerous anywhere in the world," he said.

Thirty-nine journalists were killed so far this year.