The husband of the surviving victim in the on-air attack of two journalists in Virginia says his wife was shot in the back as she dove away from the gunman.
Vicki Gardner's husband, Tim Gardner, spoke to ABC News on Friday morning, two days after the shooting in Moneta, Virginia.
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Tim Gardner says the gunman fired at his wife after shooting WDBJ-TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward.
Gardner added that the gunman missed his wife twice, and she then dove to the ground, curled up in a ball and was shot in the back. After the attack, the husband said, Vicki Gardner "got up and walked to the ambulance" not knowing the extent of her injuries.
"She got up and walked to the ambulance." - husband of Vicki Gardner. She continues to recover from #WDBJ shooting.— Good Morning America (@GMA) August 28, 2015
"The surgeon told me that a couple of centimeters and she wouldn't be walking, and a couple of centimeters more and she wouldn't be alive," he said. "I would hate to have lost my partner of 40 years to a madman."
Gardner said his wife, who is the executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, lost a kidney and part of her colon and is recovering after two surgeries. She is in good condition and surrounded by friends and family at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.