Shooter Took Video Of Himself Murdering Reporters [VIDEO]

UPDATE @12:18 ET: Vester Lee Flanagan has reportedly shot himself, and is alive, but in critical condition. 

The suspect in the killings of two journalists in Virginia has been identified as Vester Lee Flanagan, who is reportedly a disgruntled former colleague from WDBJ. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has announced that an arrest is imminent.

Heavy.com is reporting that Vester had complained about racist comments made to him made by one of his victims:

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Backup when Youtube is pulled:

From ABC News:

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.”

Later in the manifesto, the writer quotes the Virginia Tech mass killer, Seung Hui Cho, and calls him “his boy,” and expresses admiration for the Columbine High School killers. “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’.

In an often rambling letter to the authorities, and family and friends, he writes of a long list of grievances. In one part of the document, Williams calls it a “Suicide Note for Friends and Family”.

From Newsweek:

“He was sort of looking out for people to say something he could take offense to. After many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him and he did not take that well. We had to call the police to escort him form the building,” Jeff Marks, general manager of the news channel, said during a noon broadcast on WDBJ. Marks described Flanigan as someone “who was difficult to work with.”

According to a LinkedIn page that appears to be for Williams, he worked as a multimedia journalist at WDBJ from March 2012 to February 2013. He previously worked as a communications director at NDG Interactive for more than seven years and held various reporting and customer service positions since 1993. He apparently received a degree in broadcast journalism from San Francisco State University, according to his LinkedIn.

Flanigan filed a discrimination lawsuit against WTWC-TV in 2000, an NBC affiliate in North Florida, alleging that a producer at the station called him a “monkey.” The lawsuit settled for an undisclosed sum. Flanigan claimed in the complaint that racial discrimination started in the summer of 1999, when the producer made the alleged “monkey” comment. Flanigan claimed in the suit that the producer “held an upper level management position” and was “supervisor.” Flanigan claimed he learned that other black employees at the station “had also been called ‘monkeys’ by officials” there.

Flanigan originally tweeted the video himself…

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