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   From: lying-pricks@msnbc.com   
      
   The cold-blooded killer who gunned down two of his former   
   colleagues on live TV last week was afraid of getting older and   
   worried that his days as a $2,000-a-night male prostitute were   
   over.   
      
   Vester Lee Flanagan II revealed his insecurities in a suicide   
   letter and last phone call to close friend Robert Avent, of   
   Vallejo, California.   
      
   Avent spoke with Flanagan just moments before the 41 year old   
   committed suicide on Wednesday, while he was being chased by   
   police.   
      
   Four days after the double murder-suicide, Avent received a   
   package from Flanagan containing old photographs and letters   
   which give insight into his mind in the lead-up to the on-air   
   executions.   
      
   Avent shared the contents of the package with the New York Daily   
   News, while also detailing his last phone call to the old friend.   
      
   Parker and Ward were interviewing Vicki Gardner, head of the   
   Smith Mountain Lake chamber of commerce, at approximately 6.45am   
   Wednesday morning when Flanagan approached the TV crew and   
   opened fire.   
      
   Tens of thousands of people in Virginia were watching local   
   station WDBJ's morning news when the shots rang out on live TV.   
      
   Parker and Ward were pronounced dead at the scene while Gardner   
   survived, after suffering a gunshot wound to her back.   
      
   In Twitter messages posted hours after the attack, Flanagan said   
   that he carried out the on-air execution in response to   
   perceived racial slights from his former colleagues.   
      
   He then posted disturbing first-hand video of the attack,   
   showing Parker trying and failing to escape his shots.   
      
   Shortly after fleeing the scene, Flanagan sent a text message to   
   Avent, saying he did something 'very bad'.   
      
   Avent, 45, saw the vague text message when he woke up for work   
   later that morning and waited until he got to his office to call   
   his friend back.   
      
   When he got Flanagan on the phone around 8.30am, he asked his   
   friend what was wrong.   
      
   'He said, "Oh, I did something this morning." And he was talking   
   normal, like nothing. Like he didn't do anything at all. Like a   
   normal voice,' Avent recalled.   
      
   'And he said, "I shot and killed two people." Just like that, in   
   a normal voice,' Avent said.   
      
   Flanagan then told his friend to check CNN and hung up.   
      
   After watching the news, a shocked Avent called Flanagan back.   
      
   Flanagan said he was just riding in his car and said he was not   
   going to go to jail. Avent then questioned why Flanagan was   
   acting so calm.   
      
   'Well, you know, I just feel, I didn't like those people,'   
   Flanagan said.   
      
   At this point, Flanagan said he could see police following him   
   on the road. He told Avent he was going to shoot himself in the   
   head before letting police take him to prison.   
      
   'He asked me if there was anything I wanted to say before he   
   goes,' Avent said. 'He said, "Come on, spit it out! I don't have   
   much time,"' he recalled.   
      
   'I said, "Just don't do it,"' Avent said. 'He said, "I love you   
   and thank you for being there for me."'   
      
   Flanagan then said he had to go and hung up. Avent tried calling   
   his friend back but didn't get any response.   
      
   Just moments later, police swarmed Flanagan's car where they   
   found him suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.   
      
   Avent says that he met Flanagan at a Greenville, North Carolina   
   gym in 2002, and when he got a job opportunity in California in   
   2006, Flanagan offered to let him live in his four-bedroom house   
   in Vallejo where he was living alone at the time.   
      
   They lived together as roommates from 2006 until 2012, when   
   Flanagan moved back across the country to work at WDBJ.   
      
   But after moving to Roanoke, Virginia, Avent says he noticed a   
   dark change in his friend.   
      
   'He didn't have anybody to talk to. He was home by himself. When   
   you're home by yourself and you think a lot - he started   
   thinking bad things,' Avent told the Daily News.   
      
   Flanagan's dismal outlook on life is expressed in his suicide   
   letter to Avent, which Avent received in a package on Sunday   
   along with old photographs, driver's licenses and student IDs.   
      
   In the stream-of-consciousness letters, Flanagan appears   
   depressed at the loss of his good looks with age.   
      
   'I do NOT wanna get old ... HELL NO!!!' Flanagan wrote. 'Please   
   keep working out player...when the heads stop turning, it's   
   AWFUL!!!'   
      
   Flanagan also talked about his time as a male escort, claiming   
   he was once paid hundreds of dollars an hour to sleep with men.   
      
   'I totally CANNOT score right now,' Flanagan wrote. 'And this is   
   from a man who used to be paid hundreds an HOUR to sleep with   
   men...one was a hot YOUNG guy in SF...he once asked, "Can I f***   
   you?" He offered to give me $1,000...I playfully said, "No."   
      
   Well, he gave me 2k.'   
      
   Avent says he called police after his phone call with Flanagan   
   on Wednesday, and informed them again when he received the   
   package four days later.   
      
   While Avent himself didn't see the attack coming, he says   
   Flanagan's family may have had warning signs.   
      
   In his last letter to Avent, Flanagan revealed that he wrote to   
   his father a month before the shooting, saying he didn't want a   
   funeral and wanted to be cremated when he died.   
      
   'I stated my last wish...to be cremated. NO FUNERAL!! That   
   didn't raise a red flag?' Flanagan wrote.   
      
   On Sunday, hundreds gathered at the Shaftman Performance Hall in   
   Roanoke, Virginia, for an interfaith memorial to Parker and Ward.   
      
   WDBJ's general manager Jeff Marks spoke at the ceremony, and   
   pictures of the two young journalists were shown on a large   
   screen.   
      
   The ceremony was attended by Parker's parents, as well as her   
   boyfriend, fellow WDBj reporter Chris Hurst.   
      
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   --   
   Illegal alien muslim Barack Hussein Obama seizes on this tragedy   
   caused by one of his mentally ill homosexual, black racist   
   supporters, to wave the flags for more gun control.   
                              
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)