Virginia Shooting Suspect Has Died (Updated with Suicide Note)

[Beta Male]

Source: HuffPost

The man police believe shot and killed two journalists and wounded a third woman during a live segment Wednesday morning has died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, authorities confirmed in a press conference.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/virginia-journalists-killed-suspect_55ddba22e4b04ae497051567?nxko6r

Update, 2:25 p.m.: ABC reports that Flanagan sent a 23-page fax identified as a "Suicide Note for Friends and Family" to ABC News at 8:26 a.m. Wednesday morning. The document, ABC says, complains of discrimination that Flanagan has faced as a "gay, black man" and cites the June 17 Charleston church shooting as the "tipping point" that motivated Flanagan to kill Parker and Ward. (Flanagan is believed to have accused Parker of making racist remarks and had accused a past employer of racial discrimination.) The document also reportedly expresses solidarity with the perpetrators of past massacres at Virginia Tech and Columbine High School in Colorado.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/26/virginia_tv_on_air_attack_reporter_cameraman_killed.html



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/virginia-journalists-killed-suspect_55ddba22e4b04ae497051567?nxko6r

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. You've linked to the URL for the LBN forum

(you can edit your post) - there is an 'edit post' link at the bottom right of it)

Here's another link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34068541

[PeaceNikki]

2. Your link is not correct.

[Beta Male]

3. It is now

Thanks to you and murielvolestrangler.

[7962]

4. Looks like this is going to be another hate crime

According to the station, none of his complaints were valid.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Well you can't charge someone with a hate crime

when they're dead.

[csziggy]

7. Apparently he had filed a discrimination case against another station

WTWC in Tallahassee, FL. According to the live coverage today it was dismissed for lack of cause.

No links - I'll try to find more info. HERE we go:

Virginia shooter Bryce Williams sued Tallahassee station for discrimination

The Tallahassee Democrat published this story on Flanagan's lawsuit in 2000:

A local television anchor-reporter, slated to lose his job with Tallahassee's NBC affiliate in two weeks, has filed a racial discrimination suit against the station --- alleging that news producers and other managers made offensive remarks about blacks and fired him for complaining about it.

More: http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2015/08/26/tv-shooter-sued-tallahassee-station--discrimination/32401317/

Suspected Virginia Television Shooter has Ties to Tallahassee, Sued Former Station

By: WCTV Eyewitness News
August 26, 2015

MONETA, Va. -- The man suspected in a shooting that killed two and injured another during a live television report in Virginia has ties to Tallahassee.

A former WTWC employee confirmed that Vester Flanagan worked at WTWC in Tallahassee from March of 1999 to March of 2000. The station also confirmed that Flanagan had filed a complaint regarding racial discrimination against the station but the case was settled.

Flanagan went by the name Bryce Williams on air.

Flanagan was an anchor and reporter, according to his LinkedIn profile.

More: http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Deadly-Shooting-Live-TV-News-Report-in-Virginia-322944251.html

[VA_Jill]

6. Oh cr@p

I had been praying for the docs and nurses caring for him, that they would save his life so that he might face justice. Looks like the COWARD'S way out won after all.

[msrizzo]

8. Wow, pretty telling....

...a grown-assed man expressing solidarity with teens and young adults.

[Yo_Mama]

16. Who shot people. Mental disorder, IMO.

It's less that he was identifying with younger people than that he was identifying with mass murderers!!!

[msrizzo]

19. Yes, of course.

I think that it is indicative of his mental disorder.

[Historic NY]

9. Sounds like he had a pattern of behavior unsuccessful lawsuits and anger

that finally exploded. The guy in NY courthouse killing had a similar pattern.

[Syzygy321]

10. Lotsa troubled souls in the world.

They lose my sympathy when they inflict their garbage on others instead of getting help.

[Stellar]

11. I wish that there was some way that we as a country could put a choke hold on the NRA.

Especially to those congress critters that are receiving an 'A' from the NRA...there has to be a way. I am fed up with the killings. I think that there are more than enough people in the country that would appreciate getting these guns out of the hands of the criminally insane and offer more laws before anyone can carry a weapon.

Maybe sending email/letters to those congress-critters where they would be receiving hundreds and thousand a day plus telephone calls every day until we can make it STOP!

A dumb idea I guess, but I just don't know what else to do.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Violence again

Not to excuse or condone; the gunman was wrong.

Wonder why he wasn't known by his own name on air ... Lee Flanagan and
Bryce Williams both have harmony to them

Seems like a lot of career and relationship involvement at that station. He
may have perceived collusion where there was only familial loyalty.

[7962]

15. His real name was "Vester Flanagan", not Lee. Guess he didnt like Vester

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Vester Lee Flanagan

We're both right on this one

[Ruby the Liberal]

13. So, he got fired in 2013 for being "difficult to work with"

Maybe, just maybe, he was a complete asshole and it had nothing to do with the color of his skin or his sexual orientation?

Solidarity with VT and Columbine? Yeah, okay. That helps his case loads.

Rot in hell you deranged SOB.

[840high]

18. My sympathy to all the families. Such hate.