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 From: lying-pricks@msnbc.com 
  
 Around 7 AM on Wednesday, Vester Lee Flanagan II texted a 
 friend. "I'm sorry," he wrote. "I had no other choice." 
  
 The 41-year-old, who at the time was being chased by police 
 after killing two former coworkers at a local news station and 
 uploading the footage to social media, told Robert Avent not to 
 respond. 
  
 And at first, he didn't. Avent was still asleep, and couldn't 
 call back for a few hours, when he was at work. When the friends 
 finally connected, Flanagan told his former gym buddy to check 
 CNN and promptly hung up. Moments later, Flanagan was dead. 
  
 Since the August 26 shooting of Alison Parker and Adam Ward, a 
 bevy of lawsuits, manifestos, suicide notes, and other documents 
 have emerged to tell the story of how Flanagan went from being a 
 male escort to a failed TV anchor to a disgruntled shooter. In 
 them, he claimed variously that he was depressed over his 
 failing looks and enraged over perceived racial injustices 
 perpetrated by people he'd worked with over the years. 
  
 After the shooting, authorities discovered that the decor in 
 Flangan's apartment consisted almost entirely of headshots and 
 pictures of him working as a TV anchor. 
  
 Flangan's outrage seems to go all the way back to his high 
 school days, according to one of his suicide notes, which were 
 sent to ABC News. In it, he claims that he was kicked off the 
 football team by coaches who were jealous of his good looks. 
  
 His life seemed to hit a high point around 1996, when he took 
 his first job in Savannah, Georgia. It was there that he fell in 
 love with a guy named Kenny, according to the note. 
  
 "Ken was there for me in ways I cannot even describe," Flanagan 
 wrote. "What a great experience that was€all around. A 
 scenic/romantic city...a new romance...a career hitting on all 
 cylinders. Sadly, we only had a short period of 'happiness' as 
 it related to my career, anyway." 
  
 His life started unraveling again after he moved to Florida. In 
 a 2000 lawsuit, Flanagan claimed that after taking a job in 
 Tallahassee, he was bullied and profiled. He would repeat 
 similar allegations in Roanoke, Virginia, after he was fired 
 from a job there in 2013 for being difficult. In another 
 harassment case, Flanagan called the situation "nothing short of 
 vile, disgusting, and inexcusable," according to the New York 
 Times. Flanagan reportedly reacted to that firing by killing and 
 ceremoniously burying his two cats. 
  
 Even after he was terminated and working a series of insurance 
 jobs, Flanagan continued to live in a drab apartment, right 
 across from the TV station. His neighbors there say he was 
 combative and sometimes flung cat feces onto peoples' porches. 
 (And video has emerged of a July road rage incident that took 
 place after another driver confronted Flanagan for driving 
 erratically.) 
  
 In the weeks leading up to the shooting, Flanagan started 
 calling ABC in advance of faxing his suicide notes. In his final 
 missive, he claimed was responding to South Carolina church 
 shooter Dylann Roof and wanted to start a race war. 
  
 But a separate manifesto eventually delivered to his friend 
 Robert Avent€who passed it along to the New York Daily 
 News€offers alternative motivations that center on his previous 
 employment as a male escort. According to Avent's account, 
 Flanagan was more concerned with his fleeting looks than with 
 racism. 
  
 "I totally CANNOT score right now. . .," Flanagan wrote his 
 friend. "And this is from a man who used to be paid hundreds an 
 HOUR to sleep with men." In the letter, he claimed that he was 
 upset about getting old, and was afraid that heads would "stop 
 turning" at his appearance. 
  
 During his final conversation with Avent, Flanagan remained 
 calm. "Oh, I did something this morning," he apparently said. "I 
 shot and killed two people." 
  
 "How come you're talking to me in a calm voice?'" Avent told the 
 Daily News he remembered saying. 
  
 "Well, you know, I just feel, I didn't like those people," 
 Flanagan reportedly replied. 
  
 The disgruntled former newsman then told his friend he wasn't 
 going to prison, and that he loved him. He abruptly terminated 
 the call and shot himself in the head. 
  
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 Illegal alien muslim Barack Hussein Obama seizes on this tragedy 
 caused by one of his mentally ill homosexual, black racist 
 supporters, to wave the flags for more gun control. 
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