(All times are US Eastern Daylight Time.)
March 2012 – Vester Flanagan is hired by WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Virginia. On the air he goes by the name Bryce Williams.
February 2013 – Vester Flanagan is fired by WDBJ. Hours after the shooting WDBJ's general manager, Jeff Marks, said that after months of disruptive behaviour, Flanagan was fired and escorted out of the station by police.
May 2014 – Flanagan files a lawsuit against WDBJ, alleging discrimination and naming most of the station's staff in his complaint. He seeks money he believed was owed to him, as well as additional damages.
July 2014 – Flanagan's lawsuit against WDBJ is dismissed by a Roanoke judge.
Tuesday night to Wednesday morning – ABC News in New York receives a 23-page faxed document from Flanagan, detailing his motives for his upcoming murders. The company gives the fax to police.
6.30-6.45am – Three people are shot by a lone gunman at Bridgewater Plaza, a shopping mall 40 kilometres from Roanoke, Virginia. Two, reporter Alison Parker, 24, and photographer Adam Ward, 27, die at the scene.
The third, Vicki Gardner, 61, the executive director of the local Chamber of Commerce, is wounded in the back and is transported to a hospital. The gunman films the entire scene and then flees. Ward's fiancee, Melissa Ott, is in the control room at the time of the shooting and witnesses his murder.
6.43am – Police are called to the scene.
8.45am – WDBJ president and general manager Marks announces in a live broadcast the deaths of reporter Parker and Ward.
11.00am – Police find Flanagan's Ford Mustang car, but the suspect has abandoned it at an airport and is continuing to flee northwards in a rented vehicle, a silver Chevrolet Sonic.
11.00am – Police announce they are looking for Flanagan, who is a former employee of WDBJ, in connection with the shootings at the Bridgewater Plaza.
11.10am – Flanagan writes on Twitter: "I filmed the shooting see Facebook."
11.15am – Two short video clips show the scene of the shooting earlier in the morning filmed by someone holding a video camera and a handgun. Minutes later, Twitter and Facebook suspend Flanagan's profile pages, but not before the videos automatically played on the social media websites for anyone who viewed his accounts or a retweet of his original post.
11.30am – Virginia state police spot Flanagan's car and try to apprehend him, but he speeds away. Moments later, Flanagan shoots himself in the head and his car veers off the road before crashing. No one else was injured in the crash. Police take Flanagan into custody and he is transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
11.34am – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton writes on Twitter that she is "[h]eartbroken and angry. We must act to stop gun violence, and we cannot wait any longer. Praying for the victims' families in Virginia."
11.55am – Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital announces Gardner, the third victim in the shootings, is out of surgery and in a stable condition.
Noon – White House spokesman Josh Earnest deplores the murders and calls for Congress to pass gun-control legislation.
1.26pm – Flanagan is pronounced dead at the hospital, according to state police.
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