A former employee of a Virginia television station filmed his murder of two journalists and broadcast it to the world before shooting himself.
Vester Lee Flanagan filmed his murder of two journalists on live television and then broadcast it to the world via Twitter and Facebook.
Flanagan shot himself after being confronted by police, WHSV reports. He was taken to the hospital and died later.
Flanagan went by Bryce Williams at WBDJ-TV in Roanoke, where Parker and Ward also worked. Ward captured Flanagan on video as he fired at him, Parker, and Vicki Gardner of the local Chamber of Commerce.
In the tweets, Flanagan hinted at possible motives for the shooting. He tweeted about filing an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint and alleged that the reporter had made racist comments. “They hired her after that???” he tweeted. The slain producer, he claimed, complained to HR about him after working together one time. His final text tweet boasted about filming the attack.
ABC News said it received a 23-page fax from Flanagan and turned it over to authorities.
Williams posted videos of the shooting on Twitter and Facebook.
“I filmed the shooting, see Facebook," he wrote on Twitter before his account was suspended.
A news conference has been scheduled.
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