How Chris Hurst was driven to run for office by gun violence and won
It was the second high-profile shooting, not the first, that pushed Chris Hurst from his career as a local television journalist to his decision to run for office.
In 2015, Hurst’s girlfriend, journalist Alison Parker, was shot dead by a disturbed former colleague during a live television broadcast in Virginia. WDBJ7 cameraman Adam Ward was also killed.
More than a year later, Hurst was sent to cover another workplace shooting at a local rail car manufacturing company. A disgruntled former employee had burst into the facility and shot several workers, one fatally, before killing himself.
The similarities to Parker and Ward’s killings left Hurst shaken and convinced that he could not continue to work as a journalist. Instead, he decided to run for local office in Virginia against an NRA-backed Republican incumbent – and he won.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/29/how-chris-hurst-was-driven-to-run-for-office-by-gun-violence-and-won
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