On today's show, Andy Parker, the father of an award-winning journalist who was

senselessly murdered on live TV as a result of somebody deciding to hire a known psycho.

joins us to share the importance of hiring character over skill.

Mr. Andy Parker, welcome on to the show.

How are you, sir?

I'm fine, Clay.

Thank you for having me.

Hey, a lot of our listeners probably are somewhat familiar with your name.

They're going, I can't place that name.

Could you share with the listeners about what happened on August 26th

and what your mission is now?

Well, Clay, on August 26, 2015,

at that time my daughter was interviewing the local head of the Chamber of Commerce at Smith Mountain Lake and while her cameraman Adam Ward filmed the interview for live television and a mentally ill

former co-worker walked up shot all three at point blank and Adam and Allison

died at the scene.

When did you find out that your daughter had been killed?

When did you get the news?

Well, typically, Barbara and I were, you know, we didn't get, well, Allison was, would always do her

morning report, you know, the crack of dawn.

And after watching her a few times,

we just said Scooter, and that was my nickname for,

I said, listen, we're gonna see your hits later, know when they when they come up on the web

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