Gardner’s best guess as to why that bullet never came was that gunman Vester Lee Flanagan ran out of bullets. “I was totally cognizant,” she says. “I was fully prepared for the end.

Gardner, the 62-year-old executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, was slated to do an interview to celebrate the Virginia lake’s 50th anniversary.

Hayden Panettiere, Virginia Gardner and Grace Caroline Currey star in a hilariously harrowing tale of terror ...

Gardner was nominated by Charleston City Council President Becky Ceperley during the meeting, and as no other members made a nomination, the full council ... College in Virginia where he earned ...