The fired Virginia reporter who claimed responsibility for the on-air slayings of his colleague and her cameraman had a track record of claiming racism in the workplace and wrote a 23-page manifesto that called the Charleston, South Carolina church shooting the final straw before he bought a gun. In the letter sent to ABC News two hours after the shooting, Vester Lee Flanagan II--who was raised a Jehovah's Witness in California--details his sinister reasoning for Wednesday's slayings.
Dylann Roof, the Virginia Tech shooter, Columbine and Jehovah himself all factored in, he wrote. 'As for Dylann Roof? You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!' he wrote in his final screed.
Just two days after the tragedy in Charleston, Flanagan bought a gun, he said
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'What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims' initials on them.'
A little over three months later, Alison Parker and Adam Ward would be killed--slaughtered on live TV outside Roanoke. Flanagan also mentions the Virginia Tech mass shooter Seung Hui Cho. He calls the madman 'his boy' while also applauding the Columbine High School killers. What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims' initials on them Vester Flanagan II's manifesto 'Also, I was influenced by Seung–Hui Cho. That's my boy right there. He got NEARLY double the amount that Eric Harris and Dylann Klebold got…just sayin.' Also in the letter, which he at one point refers to as his 'Suicide Note for Friends and Family', Flanagan lists grievances including racial discrimination at work as well as segxwal harassment and bullying. He writes that he's been attacked by black men and white women as he discusses the difficulties of going through life as a gay man of color. While Flanagan says the Charleston shootings were the tipping point for him, it's clear he's been unwell for some time--and he admits as much. 'My anger has been building steadily...I've been a human powder keg for a while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!' Hours after he sent ABC News the fax, Flanagan reached out again, this time by phone. He told them he'd killed two people that morning and that the cops were after him and 'all over the place.' 'This gentleman was disturbed at way things had turned out at some point in his life. Things were spiraling out of control,' Franklin County Sheriff W.Q. 'Bill' Overton Jr. later said at a news conference.
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Posted: at 27-08-2015 08:06 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Giftedshady at 27-08-2015 08:23 AM (8 years ago) (f)
At u happy Nw after killing them
Posted: at 27-08-2015 08:23 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
Slimchery at 27-08-2015 08:24 AM (8 years ago) (m)
Nor be only white kill black sometime make black still kill white make we see how them go still free am too as them they free white wey kill black, but my broda you for nor kill sha because some white nor dey happy sometime with the way their follow white dey treat blacks
Posted: at 27-08-2015 08:24 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
A sad turn of events. There is never any reason to commit murder. We ALL have pieces of RACISM and TRIBALISM in us. We do not all sit down plan murder, and then boast about it online. We have had enough atrocities in 2015 to last a lifetime.
ALL lives matter. BLACK and WHITE!
Posted: at 27-08-2015 09:15 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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