Posted on 08/26/2015 11:23:15 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
A disgruntled former employee of a Virginia TV station stalked and ambushed a news crew during a live interview Wednesday morning before opening fire, killing a reporter and photographer and wounding the woman being interviewed.
Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, who went by the name Bryce Williams while working at the station, WDBJ, has been identified as the suspect. His name was initially reported as Lester Lee Flanagan.
Flanagan shot himself after being confronted by police, WHSV reports. He was taken to the hospital and died at about 1:25 p.m.
The gunman opened fire during a live interview with a member of the local Chamber of Commerce. Cameraman Adam Ward, 27, and reporter Alison Parker, 23, of WDBJ 7 TV, were killed. The woman being interviewed, Vicki Gardner, was also shot and wounded, the Roanoke Times reports. She is in surgery after being shot in the back. Gardner is the executive director at the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce.
He was later confronted by police in Fauquier County, about three hours away from where the shooting occurred.
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Are we sure he was a black man? He could really be a white girl.
so lets see....more domestic abuse...more drug issues...more alcohol issues...more disease...earlier deaths.....
yep...that is certainly something that should be promoted....NOT!
#WhiteLivesMatter
RESUME
2000: Fired from Station
2000: Discrimination suit against station dismissed
2000 to 2012: High paid companion?
2015: DEAD
and gay....don’t forget the gay....
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cornrow
34 minutes ago
He was gay, ban the Rainbow Flag!
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"nuts", or evil?
Yup.
Here is a site with a list of them. It says 63% of serial killers are queer. Pretty amazing representation for 1.8% of the population.
#EndBlackViolenceNow
Perfect control by the evil spirits.
Tallahassee is the #105 television market in the country.
Once you’ve been canned there I’d think your next stop would be the Burger King drive thru.
So....nuts, deranged, gay, liberal, minority, chip on his shoulder.
Only question I have is, why wasn’t he working for ESPN?
And they are still calling him “Alleged gun man”. Really... video, phone calls, and faxes= alleged.
Bingo. It’s a liberal rag but I have to hand it to the Atlantic for covering this very problem in the latest issue. Here’s the online version. It was a good read:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
Try Columbia, SC for low rung tv markets.
I worked at SCETV for a number of years and we working people made little. I would run into my opposite numbers from the news channels and then I felt a little better.
They probably HAD to hire him at the Virginia station, worried he would SUE for discrimination if they did not.
I am guessing Steubenville, OH-Wheeling, WV is about the lowest rung on the TV market ladder. And it looks it.
ROFL
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