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   (CNN)The man who police say killed two journalists during a live   
   broadcast Wednesday was no stranger to WDBJ-TV. He was Bryce   
   Williams, a reporter for the Roanoke, Virginia, station until he   
   was fired two years ago.   
      
   More accurately, Williams was the on-air name for Vester Lee   
   Flanagan II.   
      
   Williams died Wednesday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound,   
   hours after he fatally shot WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and   
   cameraman Adam Ward during the station's morning newscast. A   
   woman the journalists were interviewing, Vicki Gardner, also was   
   shot and is in stable condition after undergoing surgery.   
      
   The ex-reporter moved through several television markets in his   
   career, usually leaving after a few years, not always on good   
   terms. Williams, who was black, sued one former employer in   
   Florida for racial discrimination, a case that was later settled   
   out of court.   
      
   The accusation of racism surfaced again Wednesday when Williams'   
   Twitter account tweeted that Parker had made racist comments.   
   Another tweet suggested that Ward complained to human resources   
   officials after the pair worked together.   
      
   The shooting devastated Parker and Ward's colleagues, who   
   covered the story as they mourned, and was shocking for the way   
   it played out.   
      
   Williams' Twitter account featured video that showed the   
   shooting from the gunman's perspective.   
      
   The same footage was posted on a Facebook page, also under the   
   name Bryce Williams.   
      
   Both social media accounts were suspended within minutes of the   
   video being posted.   
      
   The video does not show who is holding the recording device. In   
   the footage, you see the camera approach the spot where Parker   
   and Ward were conducting a live shot. The person recording   
   hovers for a few moments just beside where the TV crew is   
   working. The reporter and cameraman don't appear to pay any   
   attention to the person.   
      
   Then a gun comes into the frame, aimed at Parker, and several   
   shots ring out.   
      
   Authorities later revealed that police tracked Williams' cell   
   phone to locate him.   
      
   "He was a good on-air performer, a pretty good reporter. And   
   then things started getting a little strange," San Diego 6 News   
   Director Don Shafer said. Shafer hired and fired Williams at a   
   Florida television station.   
      
   Shafer said he fired Williams for "odd behavior."   
      
   After his termination, Williams filed a lawsuit in 2000 against   
   WTWC-TV, a Tallahassee station.   
      
   Williams alleged a producer in an upper-level management   
   position called him a "monkey." The lawsuit also made other   
   allegations of racism, including that a white worker said   
   "blacks are lazy and do not take advantage of free money,"   
   referring to college scholarships, and that another employee   
   called a murder suspect "'just another thug.''   
      
   The case was settled out of court, according to court documents.   
      
   Marie Mattox, who represented Williams in that case, said she   
   didn't see in him then the possibility for such violence.   
      
   "I thought that he would go on with his life and be able to make   
   something productive of himself," she told CNN.   
      
   LaRell Reynolds, a former WDBJ employee, told CNN that Williams   
   was "not the best co-worker."   
      
   "He couldn't take criticism and he took it personally," Reynolds   
   said, adding that when Williams was let go he "threw a huge   
   tantrum."   
      
   "We were in a lockdown the day that he was fired, and a few days   
   later we had police detail that kind of watched over the   
   station," he said.   
      
   Orlando Salinas, another former WDBJ employee, told Adweek's   
   TVSpy that Williams often complained about racism in the   
   workplace.   
      
   According to Salinas, on Williams' last day at the station, he   
   created a "ruckus" and other employees moved to another room   
   while police escorted him out of the building.   
      
   Williams filed a lawsuit against WDBJ, which was subsequently   
   dismissed.   
      
   Family members of the gunman released a statement saying their   
   thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims, and   
   with the news station, CNN affiliate KRON reported.   
      
   "Words cannot express the hurt that we feel for the victims. Our   
   family is asking that the media respect our privacy," the   
   statement read.   
      
   Police said Williams wrote a 23-page document that he faxed   
   after the shooting to ABC News.   
      
   The document "goes to show where the gentleman's mind was the   
   night before" the shooting, Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton   
   told reporters, but he did not disclose what it said.   
      
   ABC News confirmed it received the document, reporting Williams   
   wrote that his reaction to the racism of the Charleston, South   
   Carolina, church shooting in June led to Wednesday's events.   
      
   "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...," Williams   
   wrote, according to ABC. "What sent me over the top was the   
   church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims'   
   initials on them."   
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/26/us/virginia-shooting-vester-   
   flanagan-bryce-williams/index.html   
      
   --   
   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.   
                              
      
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