The reporter shot dead during a live TV broadcast was "the most radiant woman I ever met", her boyfriend has said.
Alison Parker, 24, was killed on air along with cameraman Adam Ward, 27.
Ms Parker was secretly dating WDBJ7 reporter Chris Hurst. The couple were together for nine months and he tweeted following her death "it was the best nine months of our lives. We wanted to get married. We just celebrated her 24th birthday."
We didn't share this publicly, but @AParkerWDBJ7 and I were very much in love. We just moved in together. I am numb. pic.twitter.com/tUrHVwAXcN
Chris Hurst (@chrishurstwdbj) August 26, 2015
"She was the most radiant woman I ever met. And for some reason she loved me back. She loved her family, her parents and her brother," he said.
Mr Ward was also engaged to a co-worker, Melissa Ott, a producer who was working her last shift in the control room when her fiancé was shot dead.
An image from Adam Ward's Facebook of his proposal to Melissa Ott in December last year
According to Ms Parker's Facebook page, she lived most of her life outside of Martinsville, Virginia.
She attended Patrick Henry Community College and graduated from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia in December 2012.
During school she worked as the news editor for her school newspaper The Breeze. She interned at both WDBJ7 and WHSV, an ABC/Fox affiliate.
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Ms Parker liked to kayak, play with her parents' dog Jack and liked to attend community theater events.
Alison Parker lived most of her life outside of Martinsville, Virginia
She formerly worked at WCTI News Channel 12 in Jacksonville, North Carolina bureau, near Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
