Va. Governor Pays Visit to News Station of Slain Journalists

Virginia's governor paid a visit on Friday to the television station where two journalists were shot this week by a disgruntled employee.

Governor Terry McAuliffe reportedly visited with employees of the WDBJ-TV station in Roanoke on Friday, where he met in private with the media station to give his condolences following the shooting of reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward.

A spokesperson for the governor told the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that the governor will "visit with staff and share condolences."

The station's general manager Jeffrey Marks reportedly told the Associated Press that he plans to ask the governor about mental illness issues in the U.S.

Following the morning of the shooting on Wednesday, reporters at WDBJ-TV took to the air once again to carry on with their regular program. They held a moment of silence at 6:45 a.m., the same time their coworkers Alison Parker and Adam Ward were fatally shot by disgruntled former employee Vester Lee Flanagan II during a live segment at a local shopping mall.

An autopsy by the Chief Medical examiner in Roanoke determined that Parker, 24, died of "gunshot wounds of the head and chest," while 27-year-old Ward died of "gunshot wounds of head and torso."

The suspect, who went by the professional name of Bryce Williams, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after engaging police in a pursuit.

The slain reporter's boyfriend, Chris Hurst, recently told CNN that this most recent tragedy calls for a dialogue on gun control in the U.S.

"There needs to be some action that is taken out of an event like this -- out of an event like Sandy Hook, like Charleston, like Aurora, Colorado... where these things just don't occur anymore," Chris Hurst told CNN on Thursday.