Chris Hurst 5 Facts About New Virginia Delegate

Chris Hurst :- 5 Facts About New Virginia Delegate Whose GF Was Murdered On Live TV

Chris Hurst, 30, ran for and became a delegate in the Virginia House in the November 7, 2017 election. Hurst, a democrat, ran for the seat in honor of his late girlfriend, Alison Parker. 

Hurst and Parker were both journalists working for the same TV station in Roanoke, Virginia, when she was murdered by a gunman, live, on air.“Going into the newsroom each day began to numb me to the humanity on which I was supposed to be reporting,” 

Hurst was an anchor at the same local TV station where his girlfriend worked as a reporter. Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were fatally shot by a disgruntled former station employee in 2015 while they were interviewing a Chamber of Commerce member on live TV. 

Hurst and Parker had just moved in together, and were planning on getting married. The incident traumatized Hurst, and he vowed to start making a difference.

“We are going to stand up to bigotry and intolerance, we are going to speak out against injustice, and we are going to fight for the most vulnerable among us to the world,” 

Hurst said to supporters after winning the election nearly one year after Trump was elected President of the United States recently.

Hurst and Parker had just moved in together, and were planning recently on getting married around some of the near week he said. The incident traumatized Hurst, and he vowed to start making a difference.