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 (CNN)After he shot two journalists on live TV and before he shot 
 himself, Bryce Williams sent a message: "I've been a human 
 powder keg for a while....just waiting to go BOOM." 
  
 Those were the words the gunman wrote in a chilling fax to ABC 
 News, according to the network. The document purportedly from 
 the Virginia shooter came after he gunned down WDBJ-TV 
 journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward, spurring a manhunt that 
 ended when he turned a gun on himself as troopers closed in. 
  
 The shooter -- a former reporter for the Roanoke station -- is 
 dead, but the investigation into Wednesday's attack is far from 
 over. Authorities say the fax to ABC, the gunman's other 
 attempts to reach out to the media and his social media posts 
 just after opening fire could be key pieces of evidence as they 
 try to pinpoint what led to the deadly shooting. 
  
 Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton said authorities weren't 
 sure about the gunman's motive, but are looking at his past 
 employment at WDBJ as well other evidence, including the fax he 
 allegedly sent to ABC News in New York. 
  
 "Many of you have gotten a lot of the correspondence, emails 
 that had been sent out. It's obvious that ... this gentleman was 
 disturbed in some way of the way things had transpired," and 
 that "at some point in his life, things spiraled out of 
 control," Overton said. 
  
 According to ABC, a 23-page fax to the network arrived almost 
 two hours after the shooting. It came from someone who 
 identified himself as Bryce Williams, the on-air name gunman 
 Vester L. Flanagan II used when he worked as a reporter. 
  
 In the message, according to ABC, the gunman said the 
 Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting in June is what put 
 him over the edge, but he wrote that his "anger has been 
 building steadily" because of racial discrimination and sexual 
 harassment he claims to have endured. 
  
 The writer expressed admiration for the shooters who massacred 
 students at Columbine High School killers and Virginia Tech. And 
 he said he put a deposit down for a gun two days after the 
 Charleston shooting. 
  
 "As for Dylann Roof? You (deleted)! You want a race war 
 (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE (deleted)!!!" the document 
 reportedly said. 
  
 Shocking morning broadcast 
  
 During a live broadcast from near Moneta, at about 6:45 a.m., TV 
 viewers saw the camera fall to the ground and caught the 
 briefest glimpse of a man who appeared to point a gun toward the 
 downed cameraman. 
  
 The station cut away to a shocked anchor back in the studio. 
  
 Later, the station reported that Parker, 24, and Ward, 27, had 
 been killed. 
  
 And the TV station's camera wasn't the only one rolling. 
  
 Two videos posted on a Twitter account under the name Bryce 
 Williams show someone walking up to the WDBJ news crew and 
 pointing a gun at them. 
  
 Another tweet said, "I filmed the shooting." The Facebook and 
 Twitter account were suspended shortly after the tweets. 
  
 Video shows the gunman approaching Parker, a WDBJ reporter, and 
 photographer Ward as Parker conducted a routine interview for a 
 local story. 
  
 Ward's back is to the gunman. Parker is in profile, and the 
 interviewee is facing the gunman. The shooter appears to take 
 his time aiming the gun, presenting it and then withdrawing it, 
 before composing the angle of his video. He opens fire on Parker 
 first. Both Parker and the interview subject scream. 
  
 Police are not sure how the gunman knew Parker and Ward were 
 reporting from Bridgewater Plaza, Overton said. 
  
 Authorities tracked the shooter's cell phone to locate him, 
 according to federal officials and the Augusta County Sheriff's 
 Department. 
  
 Just before 11:30 a.m., Virginia State Police saw the car they 
 believed Williams was driving headed east on Interstate 66. With 
 emergency lights activated, a trooper tried to pull him over, 
 police said. 
  
 The driver refused to stop and sped away before running off the 
 road and crashing into an embankment around mile marker 17.1 in 
 Fauquier County, more than 170 miles away from the site of the 
 shooting. 
  
 Troopers found the driver inside with a self-inflicted gunshot 
 wound, Virginia State Police Sgt. F.L. Tyler told reporters. He 
 was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead Wednesday 
 afternoon, Tyler said. 
  
 Gunman was fired from station 
 Williams was a reporter at WDBJ for about a year, according to a 
 former employee of the station. He was fired from that job, 
 though the reason was not made public, the ex-employee said. 
  
 "Two years ago, we had to separate him from the company. We did 
 understand that he was still living in the area," WDBJ General 
 Manager Jeff Marks said. 
  
 Dan Dennison told CNN affiliate KHNL in Honolulu that he was the 
 news director who hired Williams at WBDJ in 2012 and then fired 
 him the following year, mostly for performance issues. Dennison 
 said he didn't want to share too many details of the firing, but 
 said it was the toughest termination decision he'd ever handled 
 and that police had to be called to escort Williams out of the 
 building. 
  
 (Williams) had a level of a long series of complaints against co- 
 workers nearly from the beginning of employment at the TV 
 station," said Dennison, who is now spokesman for the Hawaii 
 Department of Land and Natural Resources. 
  
 "That really had nothing to do with his termination, and after a 
 lot of investigation both internally and externally, all of 
 these allegations were deemed to be unfounded. And they were 
 largely under, along racial lines, and we did a thorough 
 investigation and could find no evidence that anyone had 
 racially discriminated against this man," he said. 
  
 Marks, the station's current general manager, said he'd heard 
 Williams had leveled accusations in the past, but he noted that 
 he and Parker hadn't worked at the station at the same time. 
  
 "I don't think (reporter) Alison (Parker) and that individual 
 even overlapped here," he said. 
  
 According to tweets from the Bryce Williams account, Alison had 
 "made racist comments," while "Adam went to hr on me after 
 working with me one time!!!" There was no elaboration, and CNN 
 was unable to immediately confirm whether either claim was true. 
  
 Court documents indicate Williams crossed paths with Ward on the 
 day he was fired. 
  
 Ward filmed the former reporter's angry outburst as police tried 
 to get him to leave the station's building, according to the 
 documents, which are part of a lawsuit Flanagan filed against 
 the TV station. 
  
 That day, Williams also handed his manager a small wooden cross, 
 and said "You'll need this," before being escorted out of the 
 building by police. 
  
 The court documents outline months of disciplinary action 
 against Williams. In addition to describing multiple meetings 
  
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