LUCKY

Woman Curled in Ball to Survive Flanagan

Didn’t see him coming.

The third person shot by Vester Flanagan told her husband that she couldn’t see him approaching because of the bright camera lights. Vicki Gardner, the executive director of the local chamber of commerce in Virginia, had a kidney and part of her colon removed after getting hit once in the back, but is otherwise expected to make a full recovery. “Then he shot three times at my wife, and she was trying to dodge everything,” her husband, Tim, said. “He missed twice, and then she dove to the ground and curled up in a ball, and that’s when he shot her in the back.” After the gunman left, Gardner got up and walked herself to the ambulance despite her injuries. Journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward were shot in the head, according to the medical examiner.