Virginia Shooting: Victim's Father Says 'Is This Real? Am I Going To Wake Up?'

It was gruesome for the Parker family when Andy's wife was alerted by Alison Parker's employer, WDBJ (Channel 7) in Roanoke, that their daughter had been shot dead.

The 24-year-old reporter and 27-year-old cameraman Adam Ward was also shot during a live interview in southwest Virginia, according to hngn.

Her father, the 62-year-old Andy Parker, expected that the worst was still to come. "Initially, we had some hope, but I knew in my heart of hearts," said Parker, who is a banking industry recruiter. "Alison would have called me immediately to say she was okay."

"My grief is unbearable," he added, according to The Washington Post. "Is this real? Am I going to wake up? I am crying my eyes out. I don't know if there's anybody in this world or another father who could be more proud of their daughter."

The gunman, Vester Lee Flanagan II, was a dissatisfied former WDBJ employee who finally died after the shooting.

"He was a crazy man that got a gun," Parker said, in "The Kelly File." "I'm going to do something, whatever it takes, to get gun legislation - to shame people, to shame legislators into doing something about closing loopholes and background checks and making sure crazy people don't get guns."

He refuses to see the video of the shooting. "It's like showing those beheadings," he said. "I am not going to watch it. I can't watch it. I can't watch any news. All it would do is rip out my heart further than it already it is."

Chris Hurst, who was her boyfriend, also spoke about the victims. "Alison and Adam carried no hate in their heart and expressed no hate or ill will," Hurst said, according to NBC News.

Hurst too was grief-stricken, and twittered: "She would always text me, we would always be concerned, texting each other when we got to work safely. And she texted me, 'Good night, sweet boy' and that was the last that I had ever heard from her," Hurst said on Fox.