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 The man police believe shot and killed two journalists and 
 wounded a third woman during a live segment Wednesday morning 
 has died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, authorities 
 confirmed in a press conference. 
  
 Just before 11:30 a.m., Virginia State Police spotted the 
 vehicle of suspect Vester Lee Flanagan, 41, heading east on 
 Interstate 66, according to a statement. A trooper put on his 
 lights but Flanagan sped away, the release said. 
  
 "Minutes later, the suspect vehicle ran off the road and 
 crashed," the statement said. "The troopers approached the 
 vehicle and found the male driver suffering from a gunshot 
 wound." 
  
 Flanagan used to work for Roanoke-based TV station WDBJ, where 
 the slain journalists also worked, and went by the name Bryce 
 Williams on air, multiple outlets report. 
  
 A Twitter account associated with Williams' name, which showed a 
 video of the shooting, was suspended Wednesday shortly after the 
 video was posted. 
  
 The same Twitter account from which video of the killings was 
 posted also tweeted out several messages, apparently referencing 
 the two victims. 
  
 Jeff Marks, the general manager of WDBJ, told CNN in an on-air 
 interview that Flanagan "did make accusations against some 
 people some time ago." 
  
 "You can never expect someone to come back and act on those 
 issues that were so old," Marks said. "What do you do? Do you 
 imagine that everybody who leaves the company under difficult 
 circumstances is going to take aim?" 
  
 Someone claiming to be Williams sent a 23-page fax to ABC News 
 some time between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the 
 network reported. In the fax, the sender says the shooting at a 
 Charleston, South Carolina, church earlier this summer pushed 
 him over the edge. 
  
 "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€€ the fax 
 said. €What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my 
 hollow point bullets have the victims€ initials on them." 
  
 Several outlets are reporting that Flanagan obtained the 9mm 
 Glock pistol legally, and that he passed background checks to 
 get it. 
  
 In the fax to ABC, he also says he's a victim of racial 
 discrimination and sexual harassment, and that he has been 
 targeted for being a gay black man. 
  
 "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!!!!€ 
  
 San Diego 6 News Director Don Shafer told the California station 
 that he worked with Flanagan in 1996 at an NBC affiliate in 
 North Florida. 
  
 "He was a good on-air performer, a pretty good reporter. And 
 then things started getting a little strange with him," Shafer 
 said. "He threatened to punch people out. He was pretty 
 difficult to work with." 
  
 Former employees told multiple outlets that Flanagan had violent 
 outbursts. Station news director Kevin Zuber said Wednesday that 
 "many people in the newsroom" had ongoing issues with the 
 suspect. 
  
 Shafer said Flanagan was later fired and sued the station for 
 racial discrimination. The case was eventually thrown out. 
  
 In a statement released Wednesday night, the family of the 
 suspected gunman expressed their sorrow over the killings. 
 "Words cannot express the hurt we feel for the victims," the 
 family said, requesting privacy from the media. 
  
 Reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, died 
 shortly after the shooting, WDBJ announced. Multiple shots rang 
 out at around 6:45 a.m. during a broadcast from Smith Mountain 
 Lake in the community of Moneta. 
  
  Vicki Gardner, the executive director of the Smith Mountain 
 Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, who Parker was interviewing 
 at the time of the incident, was shot in the back and is 
 undergoing surgery, CNN reports. Franklin County Sheriff Bill 
 Overton said at a press conference that her injuries are not 
 life-threatening. 
  
 Correction: Language has been updated to clarify what the sender 
 of the fax was referring to in the text, "And my hollow point 
 bullets have the victims€ initials on them." In this case, 
 "them" indicates the bullets. 
  
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/virginia-journalists-killed- 
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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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