Virginia TV Shooting Survivor Vicki Gardner Speaks Out

The woman who survived the fatal on-air shooting of two Virginia journalists last month played dead  in order to stay alive. 

Vicki Gardner was being interviewed  by WDBJ reporter Alison Parker when Vester Flanagan opened fire, killing Parker and cameraman Adam Ward.  Gardner was shot in the back during the attack, but survived. 

On Tuesday, Gardner described those harrowing moments in an interview  with Fox News ' Greta Van Susteren, her first since the attack.

"It was very chaotic," Gardner said. "All I could think of was: play dead... I just fell to the ground as though I'd been hit and went into fetal position. Because I felt as though he was going to shoot me in the head."

Gardner said that Flanagan, a former WDBJ reporter, walked away but she believes he returned to shoot her "just in case."

“Had I continued to stand, I would not be here talking to you,” Gardner said.

Watch the full interview below, and a clip of Gardner and her husband above. 

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