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Christine Chubbuck [a] (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida.. The first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast, Chubbuck shot herself in the head with a gun on July 15, 1974, during WXLT-TV's Suncoast Digest, after claiming that the network was about to present "an exclusive ...
Canton Daily News: Canton, Ohio: Shot to death in his garage as a result of a conspiracy with a crime boss and the police chief of Canton. [1] June 9, 1930: Jake Lingle: Chicago Tribune: Chicago, Illinois: Killed in gangland-style by associates of Al Capone. In addition to his job as a reporter, Lingle was on the payroll of Capone's criminal ...
The following notable people died by suicide.This includes suicides effected under duress and excludes deaths by accident or misadventure. People who may or may not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is disputed, but who are widely believed to have deliberately killed themselves, may be listed.
A television reporter and cameraman were shot to death on live television Wednesday in Virginia by a gunman described as a disgruntled station employee. Fired reporter kills 2 former co-workers on ...
Vester Lee Flanagan II committed suicide after gunning down a reporter and photojournalist during a live TV broadcast in Roanoke on Aug. 26, 2015. ... Flanagan had been fired from the news outlet ...
Kentucky-based Wave 3 News anchor Maira Ansari is speaking out after unintentionally making insensitive jokes about an incredibly serious topic on-air.. The incident occurred during a PSA related ...
On 2 November 2007, at age 29, Dragun died by suicide near The Gap in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. [3] [11] According to news reports, Dragun sat near the gully for around two hours, something she had done several times in the weeks leading up to her suicide, [5] and sent a farewell text message to Struthers before jumping to her death.
A Kentucky news anchor says she was “floored” and “confused” when, during a recent broadcast, her teleprompter script included jokes about suicide that she unwittingly read on-air. In a ...