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 Two television journalists were killed during a live broadcast 
 in Virginia on Wednesday, shot by a suspect who was a former 
 employee of the TV station and who called himself a "powder keg" 
 of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and 
 elsewhere in the United States. 
  
 The suspect, 41-year-old Vester Flanagan, shot himself as police 
 pursued him on a Virginia highway hours after the shooting. 
 Flanagan, who was African-American, died later at a hospital, 
 police said. 
  
 The journalists who were killed were reporter Alison Parker, 24, 
 and cameraman Adam Ward, 27. Both journalists were white, as is 
 a woman who they were interviewing. The woman was wounded and 
 was in stable condition, a hospital spokesman said. 
  
 Social media postings by a person who appeared to be Flanagan 
 indicated the suspect had grievances against the station, CBS 
 affiliate WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia, which let him go two years 
 ago. The person also posted video that appeared to show the 
 attack filmed from the shooter's vantage point. 
  
 Flanagan sent ABC News a 23-page fax about two hours after the 
 shooting, saying his attack was triggered by the June 17 mass 
 shooting at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, the 
 network said. Nine people were killed, and a white man has been 
 charged in that rampage. 
  
 The network cited Flanagan as saying he had suffered racial 
 discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying at work. He had 
 been attacked by black men and white women, and for being a gay 
 black man, he said. 
  
 "The church shooting was the tipping point ... but my anger has 
 been building steadily," ABC News cited the fax as saying. "I've 
 been a human powder keg for a while ... just waiting to go BOOM!" 
  
 The on-air shooting occurred at about 6:45 a.m. EDT (1045 GMT) 
 at Bridgewater Plaza, a Smith Mountain Lake recreation site 
 about 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Washington. 
  
 The broadcast was abruptly interrupted by the sound of gunshots 
 as Parker and the woman being interviewed, Vicki Gardner, 
 executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber 
 of Commerce, screamed and ducked for cover. 
  
 Hours after the shooting, someone claiming to have filmed it 
 posted video online. The videos were posted to a Twitter account 
 and on Facebook by a man identifying himself as Bryce Williams, 
 which was Flanagan's on-air name. 
  
 The videos were removed shortly afterward. One video clearly 
 showed a handgun as the person filming approached the woman 
 reporter. 
  
 The person purporting to be Williams also posted, "I filmed the 
 shooting see Facebook" as well as saying one of the victims had 
 "made racist comments." 
  
 In the fax to ABC News, Flanagan praised shooters who had 
 carried out mass killings at Virginia Tech University in 2007 
 and at Colorado's Columbine High School in 1999. 
  
 ABC News said Flanagan called the network shortly after 10 a.m. 
 Flanagan said he had shot two people, police were after him and 
 then hung up. ABC News then contacted authorities and turned 
 over the fax, which had arrived about 90 minutes earlier, the 
 network said. 
  
 SHOT HIMSELF AS POLICE CLOSED IN 
  
 Flanagan shot himself as Virginia State Police were closing in 
 on a rental car on Interstate 66 in Fauquier County, WDBJ7 said. 
 Virginia state police said the suspect refused to stop when 
 spotted by troopers and sped away. 
  
 Minutes later, the suspect's vehicle ran off the road and 
 crashed, police said in a statement, adding the troopers 
 approached the vehicle and found the driver with a gunshot 
 wound. He was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital near Washington, 
 where he died. 
  
 "It's obvious that this gentleman was disturbed in some way at 
 the way things had transpired at some part of his life," Overton 
 told a news conference. 
  
 "It appears things were spiralling out of control, but we€re 
 still looking into that," he said. "We still have a lengthy 
 investigation to conduct and that's our focus as we move 
 forward." 
  
 Flanagan had sued another station where he worked in Florida, 
 alleging he had been discriminated against because he was black. 
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 Flanagan said he was called a "monkey" by a producer in a 
 lawsuit filed in federal court against a Tallahassee station, 
 WTWC, in 2000. He also said a supervisor at the station called 
 black people lazy. The Florida case was settled and dismissed 
 the next year, court records show. 
  
 WDBJ7 President and General Manager Jeff Marks said he could not 
 figure out a particular connection between Flanagan and the two 
 dead journalists. 
  
 Speaking to CNN about Flanagan, he added, "Do you imagine that 
 everyone who leaves your company under difficult circumstances 
 is going to take aim?" 
  
 "Why were they (Parker and Ward) the targets, and not I or 
 somebody else in management?" he said. 
  
 The station's early morning broadcast showed Parker interviewing 
 Gardner about the lake and tourism development in the area. 
 Gunshots erupted, and as Ward fell his camera hit the ground but 
 kept running. An image caught on camera showed what appeared to 
 be a man in dark clothing facing the camera with a weapon in his 
 right hand. 
  
 The station described the two dead journalists as an ambitious 
 reporter-and-cameraman team who often produced light and breezy 
 feature stories for the morning program. 
  
 "I cannot tell you how much they were loved," Marks said. 
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 They were both engaged to be married to other people at the 
 station. 
  
 A couple living across from the shopping centre where the 
 shooting took place said police burst into their apartment and 
 awakened them at gunpoint. Police said they were looking for the 
 shooter, according to the woman, who identified herself only as 
 Annie. 
  
 "I moved from Philly (Philadelphia) to get away from that kind 
 of stuff," she said, adding that she had been in the area a few 
 months. 
  
 The White House said the shooting was another example of gun 
 violence that is "becoming all too common." 
  
 White House spokesman Josh Earnest, reflecting frustration that 
 President Barack Obama has expressed over his inability to push 
 through laws to tighten gun laws, told reporters that Congress 
 could pass legislation that would have a "tangible impact on 
 reducing gun violence in this country." 
  
 According to his social media sites, Flanagan attended San 
 Francisco State University. A university spokesman said he 
 graduated in 1995 with a degree in radio and television. 
  
 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/26/usa-shooting-virginia- 
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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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