Posted on 08/26/2015 10:18:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A disgruntled former news reporter who shot dead two of his ex-coworkers during a live TV segment this morning is in very critical condition after attempting to kill himself.
Viewers of WDBJ, a small CBS affiliate in Moneta, Virginia, watched in horror this morning as the Vester Lee Flanigan II shot dead 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, on live TV as the two were filming a light-hearted segment at 6:45am.
After carrying out the shocking on-air execution, Ward rented a car at the airport and then started driving east.
Police finally cornered Flanigan just before noon, about three hours northeast, in Fauquier County, Virginia, but he refused to stop and sped away from troopers.
Flanigan then crashed the car off the road and when police surrounded the vehicle, they found him suffering from a life-threatening gunshot wound.
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Yea VA cops just verified...Crap I wanted him to be executed
At least it saved the taxpayers some money. I just wish he could have spent more time in excruciating pain before he croaked.
News conference confirming the suspect is dead:
http://www.wdbj7.com/news/local/watch-wdbj7-live-streaming/20600546
I hope he made peace with his Maker before he died, but I’m glad the State of VA doesn’t have to spend millions of dollars convicting him (even though it was on video), housing him through his five million appeals, and then finally commuting his sentence because he’s 90 years old.
The pictures are heartbreaking.
Media won’t cover too much because of the Amish angle here.
Nah... It's better this way. I for one didn't want my tax dollars supporting this scum in prison for 15-20 years, paying for his attorneys, etc. And never forget that some leftist governor (or POTUS) could simply commute the sentence after he was "reformed".
It's to the benefit of all that his eternity in hell started today.
I read just minutes ago in the NY Daily News that the gunman was pronounced dead shortly after your post was made.
Exactly, he would have become the new “Mumia.”
Agree on all points.
I WISH that people would stop saying WISHED instead of WISH.
But really, as long as it doesn’t harelip my Aunt Hannie; it’s actually none of my beeswax.
Wee Wax!
The racial angle is pure BS spouted by a murderer to attempt and justify his crime. The only racial component is him killing whites because one of them said no.
+1
Got me there.
Hillary Clinton: Citizens and Police Alike Are ‘Much Too Eager’ to Use a Gun
Earnest REPORT straight from WHITE HOUSE
“More GUN VIOLENCE”
Federal gov “will INVESTIGATE.”
That is the best outcome for which we can hope. Someone earlier suggested that he should live so that he could get a needle in his arm.
That outcome is far from likely, and would grant him far too much remaining time on this Earth. His death would simply save everyone a lot of trouble and a lot of money.
They won’t report any homosexual angle for sure. No doubt he was doubly “oppressed”.
Even when referring to their own, the News Cartel can’t use the words criminal or killer or, gasp, murderer in the stories.
PS, daddy Vester Senior was a 9th round draft pick at tackle out of Cal. State-—Humboldt for the Green Bay packers in 1961. I do not think he made the squad.
That would be fine except for the fact that the system is broken and can no longer be counted on to actually do executions. Did you see what happened to that Aurora Colorado shooter? He got life in Prison, or as I like to put it, "The tax payers were sentenced to life in Prison."
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