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What We Know About Virginia Shooting Victims Alison Parker andAdam Ward

Both had bright futures ahead, colleagues say

 Virginia journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward were killed Wednesdaymorning in an on-air shooting by a man who authorities say was adisgruntled ex-employee of WDBJ, the news station where they worked.

 Authorities have identified Vester Lee Flanagan (known on air as Bryce Williams) as the alleged shooter, and have said he shot himself and was takento hospital, where he later died. A third shooting victim, Vicki Gardner, was instable condition after surgery.

Both Parker and Ward were beloved employees of WDBJ, and both wereinvolved in long-term relationships with other members of the WDBJ team.

Parker, 24, was described a “rockstar” by her teammates, with a bright futureahead of her at WDBJ. “She really has done a wonderful job reporting andfilling in anchoring,” WDBJ anchor Kimberly McBroom said on-air after theshooting. “You throw anything at that girl and she could do it.”

“My grief is unbearable,” her father Andy Parker toldthe  Washington Post . “Is this real? Am I going to wake up? I am crying my eyesout. I don’t know if there’s anybody in this world or another father who could bemore proud of their daughter.” 

Her father told the Post that while Parker was ambitious about journalism, she

never tried to get into dangerous situations. “Some journalists want to be rightout there covering ISIL. She did not want that,” he said. “She was not keen on  jumping into a middle of a firefight someplace.” 

Parker was dating WDBJ anchor Chris Hurst, and the two had moved intogether and were planning to get married. Hurst took to Twitter to express hisloss.

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Syrian refugee starts new life as football coach in Spain

MADRID, Spain - The Syrian refugee football coach who made world headlines when a

Hungarian camerawoman tripped him as he fled said on Thursday it felt "fantastic"

starting a new life in Spain.

Osama Abdul Mohsen, a former first division football trainer in Syria, was welcomed

 by a soccer coaching school in Madrid that has offered him a job.

He arrived in Spain late on Wednesday night with his sons Mohammad, 18 and Zaid, 7.

"Our first day in Madrid is very fantastic. I am very, very happy. Thank you," he told

reporters on Thursday outside the apartment where he is being lodged in southern

Madrid.

On arriving in the city late the previous night by train he said: "Thank you, Spain. I love

Madrid, I love Spain. This is very important for my life."

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On September 9 camerawoman Petra Laszlo was filmed tripping him as he fled with

Zaid in his arms near the Hungarian border with Serbia.

Laszlo was fired from her job and later apologized, saying she "panicked".

Mohsen, who is 52 according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo, was brought to Spain by

the CENAFE coaches' training school in the Madrid suburb of Getafe.

Its president Conrado Galan called the incident at the border "a blessed trip-up".He said Mohsen had "slept soundly" on his first night in Spain.

'Helping a fellow football coach' 

It was reported after the tripping incident that Mohsen was formerly manager of Syrian

first division side Al-Fotuwa.

Conrado Galan's brother Miguel Angel, the director of the school, reached out to

Mohsen after reading that in a newspaper.

"We are a national coaching school so we decided to help a fellow  coach," he said.

He said CENAFE also aimed to bring over Mohsen's wife and two other children, who

 were reported to be in a refugee camp in Turkey."We are going to try and find them," Miguel Angel Galan told reporters. "The story is

not finished. We are halfway towards granting them total happiness."

Conrado Galan said Mohsen was the "ideal candidate" to teach in the coaching school.

"He can train coaches who will have to go to Dubai, Qatar and Egypt" where Spanish

trainers are in demand, he said.

El Mundo said Mohsen left Syria a year ago and spent time in Turkey before moving on

this month with Zaid.

The mayor of Getafe, Sara Hernandez, said Zaid would soon be able to go to school

once his father receives his official asylum seeker's card.

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reporter ____________, supposed_____________, adored

 _____________, passed away ____________, colleagues _____________, news presenter ______________, pain ___________, insufferable ___________, self- satisfied _______________, hazardous _____________, death _____________.

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previous __________, accommodated ____________, sacked

 __________ fortunate _____________, partner ____________.

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