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   From: lying-pricks@msnbc.com   
      
   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.   
      
   Just before 11:30 a.m., Virginia State Police spotted the   
   vehicle of suspect Vester Lee Flanagan, 41, heading east on   
   Interstate 66, according to a statement. A trooper put on his   
   lights but Flanagan sped away, the release said.   
      
   "Minutes later, the suspect vehicle ran off the road and   
   crashed," the statement said. "The troopers approached the   
   vehicle and found the male driver suffering from a gunshot   
   wound."   
      
   Flanagan used to work for Roanoke-based TV station WDBJ, where   
   the slain journalists also worked, and went by the name Bryce   
   Williams on air, multiple outlets report.   
      
   A Twitter account associated with Williams' name, which showed a   
   video of the shooting, was suspended Wednesday shortly after the   
   video was posted.   
      
   The same Twitter account from which video of the killings was   
   posted also tweeted out several messages, apparently referencing   
   the two victims.   
      
   Jeff Marks, the general manager of WDBJ, told CNN in an on-air   
   interview that Flanagan "did make accusations against some   
   people some time ago."   
      
   "You can never expect someone to come back and act on those   
   issues that were so old," Marks said. "What do you do? Do you   
   imagine that everybody who leaves the company under difficult   
   circumstances is going to take aim?"   
      
   Someone claiming to be Williams sent a 23-page fax to ABC News   
   some time between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the   
   network reported. In the fax, the sender says the shooting at a   
   Charleston, South Carolina, church earlier this summer pushed   
   him over the edge.   
      
   "Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The   
   Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…” the fax   
   said. “What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my   
   hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them."   
      
   Several outlets are reporting that Flanagan obtained the 9mm   
   Glock pistol legally, and that he passed background checks to   
   get it.   
      
   In the fax to ABC, he also says he's a victim of racial   
   discrimination and sexual harassment, and that he has been   
   targeted for being a gay black man.   
      
   "The church shooting was the tipping point…but my anger has been   
   building steadily...I’ve been a human powder keg for a   
   while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!”   
      
   San Diego 6 News Director Don Shafer told the California station   
   that he worked with Flanagan in 1996 at an NBC affiliate in   
   North Florida.   
      
   "He was a good on-air performer, a pretty good reporter. And   
   then things started getting a little strange with him," Shafer   
   said. "He threatened to punch people out. He was pretty   
   difficult to work with."   
      
   Former employees told multiple outlets that Flanagan had violent   
   outbursts. Station news director Kevin Zuber said Wednesday that   
   "many people in the newsroom" had ongoing issues with the   
   suspect.   
      
   Shafer said Flanagan was later fired and sued the station for   
   racial discrimination. The case was eventually thrown out.   
      
   In a statement released Wednesday night, the family of the   
   suspected gunman expressed their sorrow over the killings.   
   "Words cannot express the hurt we feel for the victims," the   
   family said, requesting privacy from the media.   
      
   Reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, died   
   shortly after the shooting, WDBJ announced. Multiple shots rang   
   out at around 6:45 a.m. during a broadcast from Smith Mountain   
   Lake in the community of Moneta.   
      
    Vicki Gardner, the executive director of the Smith Mountain   
   Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, who Parker was interviewing   
   at the time of the incident, was shot in the back and is   
   undergoing surgery, CNN reports. Franklin County Sheriff Bill   
   Overton said at a press conference that her injuries are not   
   life-threatening.   
      
   Correction: Language has been updated to clarify what the sender   
   of the fax was referring to in the text, "And my hollow point   
   bullets have the victims’ initials on them." In this case,   
   "them" indicates the bullets.   
      
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/virginia-journalists-killed-   
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   --   
   Illegal alien Barack Hussein Obama seizes on this tragedy caused   
   by one of his mentally ill homosexual, black ardent supporters,   
   to wave the flags for more gun control.   
         
      
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