Vester Flanagan, a.k.a. Bryce Williams
The man who died as a suspect in the shooting of a television reporter and cameraman in Virginia early Wednesday left a 23-page note that describes his anger, his hate and his threats.
The note was faxed to ABC News, which reported on some of its contents.
ABC provided a copy to investigators as soon as the fax arrived at 8:26 a.m., some two hours after the shooting that killed reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27.
Parker was interviewing a businesswoman, Vicki Gardner, about tourism at the time. Gardner was shot and was in stable condition after surgery.
The man, who had been on-air reporter Bryce Williams at station WDBJ in Virginia, real name Vester Lee Flanagan, said he recognized that the shooting of a number of black people at a church in South Carolina pushed him over the edge.
“The church shooting was the tipping point … but my anger has been building steadily … I’ve been a human powder keg for a while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!” ABC quoted him saying.
ABC reported he called about 90 minutes after sending the fax, said “authorities are ‘after me,’ and ‘all over the place.’ He hung up.” He later, while being pursued by police, apparently shot himself, and died shortly later in a hospital.
“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…,” he wrote. “What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them.”
He cited the accused shooter in the South Carolina attack, ABC said.
“As for Dylann Roof? You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!” ABC said. Earlier reports said Roof, the suspect in the South Carolina church shooting, killed blacks because he wanted a race war.
Flanagan also, ABC said, praised Virginia Tech mass shooting Seung Hui Cho, who killed 32, and the Columbine school shooters, Eric Harris and Dylann Klebold.
He said Jehovah spoke to him, telling him to act.
About Cho, he said, “That’s my boy right there. He got NEARLY double the amount that Eric Harris and Dylann Klebold got … just sayin.”
He complained of suffering racial discrimination, bullying and harassment, fretted over attacks he perceived by white women and black men, and lamented how he was not treated properly as a “gay” black man.
“Yes, it will sound like I am angry … I am. And I have every right to be. But when I leave this earth, the only emotion I want to feel is peace….,” he wrote.
Shooting victims Alison Parker and Adam Ward
NBC reported the manager of the station in Moneta, Virginia, reported Flanagan was “difficult to work with” and was dismissed for having anger issues.
Police were called to escort him from the premises, the manager reported.
Flanagan also had filed lawsuits at least twice, alleging discriminatory treatment, but they ended up being dismissed.
The 41-year-old Flanagan posted videos of the attack, and images, to his Facebook and Twitter pages while he was being pursued. The accounts were quickly closed.
ABC described the letter as rambling.
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