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   From: lying-pricks@msnbc.com   
      
   Around 7 AM on Wednesday, Vester Lee Flanagan II texted a   
   friend. "I'm sorry," he wrote. "I had no other choice."   
      
   The 41-year-old, who at the time was being chased by police   
   after killing two former coworkers at a local news station and   
   uploading the footage to social media, told Robert Avent not to   
   respond.   
      
   And at first, he didn't. Avent was still asleep, and couldn't   
   call back for a few hours, when he was at work. When the friends   
   finally connected, Flanagan told his former gym buddy to check   
   CNN and promptly hung up. Moments later, Flanagan was dead.   
      
   Since the August 26 shooting of Alison Parker and Adam Ward, a   
   bevy of lawsuits, manifestos, suicide notes, and other documents   
   have emerged to tell the story of how Flanagan went from being a   
   male escort to a failed TV anchor to a disgruntled shooter. In   
   them, he claimed variously that he was depressed over his   
   failing looks and enraged over perceived racial injustices   
   perpetrated by people he'd worked with over the years.   
      
   After the shooting, authorities discovered that the decor in   
   Flangan's apartment consisted almost entirely of headshots and   
   pictures of him working as a TV anchor.   
      
   Flangan's outrage seems to go all the way back to his high   
   school days, according to one of his suicide notes, which were   
   sent to ABC News. In it, he claims that he was kicked off the   
   football team by coaches who were jealous of his good looks.   
      
   His life seemed to hit a high point around 1996, when he took   
   his first job in Savannah, Georgia. It was there that he fell in   
   love with a guy named Kenny, according to the note.   
      
   "Ken was there for me in ways I cannot even describe," Flanagan   
   wrote. "What a great experience that was—all around. A   
   scenic/romantic city...a new romance...a career hitting on all   
   cylinders. Sadly, we only had a short period of 'happiness' as   
   it related to my career, anyway."   
      
   His life started unraveling again after he moved to Florida. In   
   a 2000 lawsuit, Flanagan claimed that after taking a job in   
   Tallahassee, he was bullied and profiled. He would repeat   
   similar allegations in Roanoke, Virginia, after he was fired   
   from a job there in 2013 for being difficult. In another   
   harassment case, Flanagan called the situation "nothing short of   
   vile, disgusting, and inexcusable," according to the New York   
   Times. Flanagan reportedly reacted to that firing by killing and   
   ceremoniously burying his two cats.   
      
   Even after he was terminated and working a series of insurance   
   jobs, Flanagan continued to live in a drab apartment, right   
   across from the TV station. His neighbors there say he was   
   combative and sometimes flung cat feces onto peoples' porches.   
   (And video has emerged of a July road rage incident that took   
   place after another driver confronted Flanagan for driving   
   erratically.)   
      
   In the weeks leading up to the shooting, Flanagan started   
   calling ABC in advance of faxing his suicide notes. In his final   
   missive, he claimed was responding to South Carolina church   
   shooter Dylann Roof and wanted to start a race war.   
      
   But a separate manifesto eventually delivered to his friend   
   Robert Avent—who passed it along to the New York Daily   
   News—offers alternative motivations that center on his previous   
   employment as a male escort. According to Avent's account,   
   Flanagan was more concerned with his fleeting looks than with   
   racism.   
      
   "I totally CANNOT score right now. . .," Flanagan wrote his   
   friend. "And this is from a man who used to be paid hundreds an   
   HOUR to sleep with men." In the letter, he claimed that he was   
   upset about getting old, and was afraid that heads would "stop   
   turning" at his appearance.   
      
   During his final conversation with Avent, Flanagan remained   
   calm. "Oh, I did something this morning," he apparently said. "I   
   shot and killed two people."   
      
   "How come you're talking to me in a calm voice?'" Avent told the   
   Daily News he remembered saying.   
      
   "Well, you know, I just feel, I didn't like those people,"   
   Flanagan reportedly replied.   
      
   The disgruntled former newsman then told his friend he wasn't   
   going to prison, and that he loved him. He abruptly terminated   
   the call and shot himself in the head.   
      
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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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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