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   From: lying-pricks@msnbc.com   
      
   Two television journalists were killed during a live broadcast   
   in Virginia on Wednesday, shot by a suspect who was a former   
   employee of the TV station and who called himself a "powder keg"   
   of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and   
   elsewhere in the United States.   
      
   The suspect, 41-year-old Vester Flanagan, shot himself as police   
   pursued him on a Virginia highway hours after the shooting.   
   Flanagan, who was African-American, died later at a hospital,   
   police said.   
      
   The journalists who were killed were reporter Alison Parker, 24,   
   and cameraman Adam Ward, 27. Both journalists were white, as is   
   a woman who they were interviewing. The woman was wounded and   
   was in stable condition, a hospital spokesman said.   
      
   Social media postings by a person who appeared to be Flanagan   
   indicated the suspect had grievances against the station, CBS   
   affiliate WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia, which let him go two years   
   ago. The person also posted video that appeared to show the   
   attack filmed from the shooter's vantage point.   
      
   Flanagan sent ABC News a 23-page fax about two hours after the   
   shooting, saying his attack was triggered by the June 17 mass   
   shooting at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, the   
   network said. Nine people were killed, and a white man has been   
   charged in that rampage.   
      
   The network cited Flanagan as saying he had suffered racial   
   discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying at work. He had   
   been attacked by black men and white women, and for being a gay   
   black man, he said.   
      
   "The church shooting was the tipping point ... but my anger has   
   been building steadily," ABC News cited the fax as saying. "I've   
   been a human powder keg for a while ... just waiting to go BOOM!"   
      
   The on-air shooting occurred at about 6:45 a.m. EDT (1045 GMT)   
   at Bridgewater Plaza, a Smith Mountain Lake recreation site   
   about 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Washington.   
      
   The broadcast was abruptly interrupted by the sound of gunshots   
   as Parker and the woman being interviewed, Vicki Gardner,   
   executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber   
   of Commerce, screamed and ducked for cover.   
      
   Hours after the shooting, someone claiming to have filmed it   
   posted video online. The videos were posted to a Twitter account   
   and on Facebook by a man identifying himself as Bryce Williams,   
   which was Flanagan's on-air name.   
      
   The videos were removed shortly afterward. One video clearly   
   showed a handgun as the person filming approached the woman   
   reporter.   
      
   The person purporting to be Williams also posted, "I filmed the   
   shooting see Facebook" as well as saying one of the victims had   
   "made racist comments."   
      
   In the fax to ABC News, Flanagan praised shooters who had   
   carried out mass killings at Virginia Tech University in 2007   
   and at Colorado's Columbine High School in 1999.   
      
   ABC News said Flanagan called the network shortly after 10 a.m.   
   Flanagan said he had shot two people, police were after him and   
   then hung up. ABC News then contacted authorities and turned   
   over the fax, which had arrived about 90 minutes earlier, the   
   network said.   
      
   SHOT HIMSELF AS POLICE CLOSED IN   
      
   Flanagan shot himself as Virginia State Police were closing in   
   on a rental car on Interstate 66 in Fauquier County, WDBJ7 said.   
   Virginia state police said the suspect refused to stop when   
   spotted by troopers and sped away.   
      
   Minutes later, the suspect's vehicle ran off the road and   
   crashed, police said in a statement, adding the troopers   
   approached the vehicle and found the driver with a gunshot   
   wound. He was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital near Washington,   
   where he died.   
      
   "It's obvious that this gentleman was disturbed in some way at   
   the way things had transpired at some part of his life," Overton   
   told a news conference.   
      
   "It appears things were spiralling out of control, but we’re   
   still looking into that," he said. "We still have a lengthy   
   investigation to conduct and that's our focus as we move   
   forward."   
      
   Flanagan had sued another station where he worked in Florida,   
   alleging he had been discriminated against because he was black.   
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   Flanagan said he was called a "monkey" by a producer in a   
   lawsuit filed in federal court against a Tallahassee station,   
   WTWC, in 2000. He also said a supervisor at the station called   
   black people lazy. The Florida case was settled and dismissed   
   the next year, court records show.   
      
   WDBJ7 President and General Manager Jeff Marks said he could not   
   figure out a particular connection between Flanagan and the two   
   dead journalists.   
      
   Speaking to CNN about Flanagan, he added, "Do you imagine that   
   everyone who leaves your company under difficult circumstances   
   is going to take aim?"   
      
   "Why were they (Parker and Ward) the targets, and not I or   
   somebody else in management?" he said.   
      
   The station's early morning broadcast showed Parker interviewing   
   Gardner about the lake and tourism development in the area.   
   Gunshots erupted, and as Ward fell his camera hit the ground but   
   kept running. An image caught on camera showed what appeared to   
   be a man in dark clothing facing the camera with a weapon in his   
   right hand.   
      
   The station described the two dead journalists as an ambitious   
   reporter-and-cameraman team who often produced light and breezy   
   feature stories for the morning program.   
      
   "I cannot tell you how much they were loved," Marks said.   
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   They were both engaged to be married to other people at the   
   station.   
      
   A couple living across from the shopping centre where the   
   shooting took place said police burst into their apartment and   
   awakened them at gunpoint. Police said they were looking for the   
   shooter, according to the woman, who identified herself only as   
   Annie.   
      
   "I moved from Philly (Philadelphia) to get away from that kind   
   of stuff," she said, adding that she had been in the area a few   
   months.   
      
   The White House said the shooting was another example of gun   
   violence that is "becoming all too common."   
      
   White House spokesman Josh Earnest, reflecting frustration that   
   President Barack Obama has expressed over his inability to push   
   through laws to tighten gun laws, told reporters that Congress   
   could pass legislation that would have a "tangible impact on   
   reducing gun violence in this country."   
      
   According to his social media sites, Flanagan attended San   
   Francisco State University. A university spokesman said he   
   graduated in 1995 with a degree in radio and television.   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/26/usa-shooting-virginia-   
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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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