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After Shooting, Alleged Gunman Details Grievances in ‘Suicide Notes’
ABCNews.com ^ | August 26, 2015 | PIERRE THOMAS, JACK CLOHERTY, JACK DATE and MIKE LEVINE

Posted on 08/26/2015 11:37:28 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

A man claiming to be Bryce Williams called ABC News over the last few weeks, saying he wanted to pitch a story, and wanted to fax information. He never told ABC News what the story was.

This morning, a fax was in the machine (time stamped 8:26 a.m.)almost two hours after the shooting. A little after 10 a.m., he called again, and introduced himself as Bryce, but also said his legal name was Vester Lee Flanagan, and that he shot two people this morning. While on the phone, he said authorities are “after me,” and “all over the place.” He hung up. ABC News contacted the authorities immediately and provided them with the fax.

In the 23-page document faxed to ABC News, the writer says “MY NAME IS BRYCE WILLIAMS” and his legal name is Vester Lee Flanagan II.” He writes what triggered today’s carnage was his reaction to the racism of the Charleston church shooting:

“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…”

“What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: blackracism; brycewilliams; livetvshooting; obamalegacy; reporter; shooting; southcarolina; suicide; thanksobama; vester; vesterflanagan; vesterleeflanagan; watchman; wdbj
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To: JudyinCanada

“Homosexuality is a mental illness, and liberalism is a mental illness.”

Well said, an unstable group to say the least.


101 posted on 08/26/2015 7:23:35 PM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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To: Timber Rattler

Media is conflicted.

Member of two protected classes kills two media members in cold blood.

We may see some honest reporting on this — for a change.


102 posted on 08/26/2015 7:26:52 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Donald Trump: Quality Conservatism Since 2015.")
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To: Chickensoup

Short lived time in the spotlight.


103 posted on 08/26/2015 7:27:23 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Timber Rattler

He now gets to explain to God why he’s a gay racist murderer.


104 posted on 08/26/2015 7:31:51 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("There's always free cheese in a mousetrap." - Marine Col. Peter Martinow)
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To: bgill

But I imagine he had been thinking about the legacy for a long time. People who do things like this are more concerned with the splash than anything else.


105 posted on 08/26/2015 7:42:51 PM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: Timber Rattler

So when to the #WhiteLivesMatter riots start, and where will everyone be gathering?


106 posted on 08/26/2015 8:10:40 PM PDT by Little Pig
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To: Colonel_Flagg

My son is watching Miss Megyn on FNC.

Miss Megyn refused to give the perp’s name.

I can only surmise that they just don’t know how to spin it.

Because a gay black journalist did this.

While Miss Megyn interviewed the victim’s father and boyfriend not a tear was shed by anyone and nobody lost their shit and started boohooing until the discussion inevitably turned to the “Gun Problem”.

Something must be done.

Only at THAT point did the wailing and gnashing of teeth start.

Why my son is continuing to watch this is beyond me.

I suppose he’s just marveling at the spin factor.


107 posted on 08/26/2015 9:23:56 PM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Yet he also praised the Columbine and Virginia tech shooters, were they also triggering a race war? This nutbag was all over the place, and this is why the left wants to disarm us, they want good folks unarmed while the nuts walk around armed.

Had this guy been aware that the Columbine guys were racists? They enjoyed killing a black kid & made comments about it.

Shows how confused he was.

108 posted on 08/26/2015 9:51:34 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: MoochPooch

He was a nut(And an Obama supporter) but remember, leftists never let a crisis go to waste..if the shooter had been white they would have called him a tea party extremist, but the second they found out that he was black, they blame the gun because hey dont ya know that blacks can’t commit acts of racism upon whites, because they are a protected class..had it been the other way around the media would have called this a hate crime


109 posted on 08/26/2015 9:55:33 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Timber Rattler
He did it because he was a nut job, plain and simple.

Now we get into the Sociological Politically Correct underpinnings as to the why.
This is horse hockey. Just because the poor little diddum was a frustrated and “angry” |lifestyle and sexual preference person of color” we begin the long analysis about race cards and sexual grievances. Things have to remain simple. The dumb_f-—k was a nut job and too bad he didn't just go off somewhere in some field and kill himself, all alone, poor little thing!
Nut jobs always have excuses like “Oh! Society made me do it”!
Enough!

110 posted on 08/26/2015 11:01:57 PM PDT by Netz
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To: Timber Rattler
He talks about how he was attacked for being a gay, black man.

..says he was a male escort after being unable to find work.

Oh, if only he'd been allowed to marry, things might have turned out to be so, so different.

Just another drama queen unable to cope with life. You can quickly understand why the station fired him.

111 posted on 08/26/2015 11:41:07 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (SECEDE TEXAS!! If not now, when?)
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To: knarf

...if Obama had a son,....


112 posted on 08/26/2015 11:42:24 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (SECEDE TEXAS!! If not now, when?)
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To: Timber Rattler

He was a black homosexual man who thought his victim status gave him the right to not be able to do his job and thought he could act like an ass. He was wrong and got fired.


113 posted on 08/27/2015 4:13:26 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Mathews

Just heard this morning he was a black homosexual. Funny how most of the media tries to cover this up as well as him saying racist crap about whites.


114 posted on 08/27/2015 4:14:22 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: DainBramage

black homosexual racist


115 posted on 08/27/2015 4:15:24 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: BenLurkin

so true. Ban the rainbow flag, it is insulting and caused this shooting.

hey if the loons want to target the Confederate flag then why not the rainbow flag.


116 posted on 08/27/2015 4:16:40 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Timber Rattler

Tuned on the news at 9 AM on Fox, to get the latest news, but nothing but yesterdays terrible tragic shooting.

For those of us that did not know the victims it`s time to move on, one full day of coverage, prayers etc and it`s time for the rest of us that never knew them to move on.

Many children, many people have died heartbreaking deaths since yesterday, time for moving on, its a bit sickening how the news just keeps clinging to stuff like this


117 posted on 08/27/2015 6:11:20 AM PDT by Chauncey Uppercrust ( CRUZ OR LOSE...BACKUP PLAN TRUMP)
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To: DouglasKC
-- He's a gay black man...wow....gonna be hard for the media to digest this one... --

He's a homosexual, black reporter, this is media-on-media crime.

118 posted on 08/27/2015 6:17:56 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Mathews
Also... another nugget "A Close Family Born in 1973 in Oakland, California, to Vester and Betty Flanagan, he was raised as a strict Jehovah's Witness." ... in part & credit to http://www.people.com/article/vester-lee-flanagan-bryce-willams-the-man-who-allegedly-shot-3-people-live-tv
119 posted on 08/27/2015 6:22:33 AM PDT by SIRTRIS
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To: SIRTRIS

I’m going to catch some flack for this, but how on earth did the victims have such poor situational awareness that they didn’t notice this black man, all dreassed in black (never a good sign), with a black beard, come up that close for that long (see go-pro video), and not sense that something was going very wrong? The lesson here for me is that everyone needs to step up their game and realize that the enemy could be coming at any time, any place. Judging by the interviews with the girl’s father she was raised in a very liberal, protected environment. Not good preparation for our current situation.


120 posted on 08/27/2015 6:41:16 AM PDT by binreadin
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