A Virginia television reporter has been granted a protective order after he says a man made a shooting motion at him about a week after the on-air killings of two TV journalists from a neighboring station.
The Roanoke Times reports that Duke Carter, a reporter for Roanoke station WSLS, obtained a protective order Wednesday against 28-year-old Donald "Donnie" Visel Jr. in Montgomery County Court.
On Sept. 5, Carter says he was reporting on a fundraiser for WDBJ shooting survivor Vicki Gardner when Visel drove by and called him Frankie Jupiter, a former WDBJ reporter. Carter says Visel then told him, "You're dead," and made a shooting motion toward Carter.
WDBJ journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward were killed Aug. 28 by a former co-worker while filming a news report.
Visel told Judge Randal Duncan during the hearing that he wanted to apologize to Carter.
