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Vester Flanagan told to seek medical help by Virginia TV station, say memos

The Guardian has obtained internal memos from 2012 sent to gunman that outline ‘aggressive’ behaviour making colleagues feel ‘threatened’

Vester Flanagan, the gunman who killed two journalists in Virginia, was told by his bosses to seek medical help after colleagues at the television station where he worked with his victims repeatedly complained about him, according to memos obtained by the Guardian.

Several flare-ups were detailed in internal messages from Dan Dennison, then the news director of WDBJ7, that were sent to Flanagan and copied to senior colleagues. Flanagan on Wednesday morning shot dead reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward.

Flanagan, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound later on Wednesday, was reprimanded for “lashing out” at a colleague and for his “harsh language” and “aggressive body language” while working as a reporter.

He was told to contact employee assistance professionals at the company Health Advocate. “This is a mandatory referral requiring your compliance,” Dennison told Flanagan on 30 July 2012. “Failure to comply will result in termination of employment.”

On Christmas Eve that year, Dennison emailed colleagues to say he had just warned Flanagan that he had one final chance to save his job. “I’m not entirely sure where his head is at,” said Dennison. Flanagan was fired three months later.

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Inside Virginia shooter Bryce Williams' home: Unwashed sex toys, gay porn, cat faeces and pictures of himself reporting
By Christopher Bucktin
11:14, 27 August 2015, Updated 15:20, 27 August 2015

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Police raided the flat yesterday after the former TV news reporter murdered reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, live on TV

Police who raided killer gunman Bryce Williams’ home after he murdered two journalists live on air found gay porn, unwashed sex toys and cat faeces inside.

Exclusive pictures obtained by the Mirror show the inside of the 41-year-old’s third-floor apartment.

Cops raided the flat yesterday after the former TV news reporter murdered reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, live on TV.

Inside the twisted killer’s third floor apartment can been seen the small desk and computer where he spent hours writing his sick manifesto before shooting dead Alison Parker and Adam Ward live on television.

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The inoffensive everyday phrases used by reporter Alison Parker that earned her a death sentence because Flanagan deemed them 'racist'

  • Parker used phrases like 'swinging' and 'field' while she interned at WDBJ
  • Colleagues said they were commonplace, but Flanagan thought otherwise
  • Staff said his assumptions were 'crazy' and he was a 'nightmare' coworker
  • When someone brought a watermelon to work, he thought that was racist
  • He believed the fruit was placed in a 'strategic location' to harass him

By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com
Published: 06:10 GMT, 28 August 2015 | Updated: 07:07 GMT, 28 August 2015

Innocuous phrases Alison Parker used every day to describe her job may have led to her death, simply because Vester Lee Flanagan thought they were racist.

The 24-year-old TV reporter who was shot and killed by the disgruntled ex-employee on Wednesday somehow angered him by using terms like 'swinging' by an address or going out into the 'field' while she was an intern at WDBJ.

It sheds further light on the murderer's erratic behavior, details of which have emerged since he callously gunned down Parker and cameraman Adam Ward live on breakfast TV.

Flanagan, 41, clashed repeatedly with photojournalists, belittling them in public and intimidating them with his aggressive and violent temper, before he was fired in 2013.

'We would say stuff like, "The reporter's out in the field." And he would look at us and say, "What are you saying, cotton fields? That's racist".'

'We'd be like, "What?' We all know what that means, but he took it as cotton fields, and therefore we're all racists.'

Fair added: 'This guy was a nightmare. 'Management's worst nightmare.'

On Wednesday, Daily Mail Online revealed management at WDBJ dubbed the failed newsman the 'human tape recorder' because he frequently parroted what interviewees had told him rather than doing his own journalism.

He was also censured for wearing an Obama sticker while recording a segment at a polling booth during the 2012 US Presidential Election - a clear breach of journalistic impartiality.

The complaints are outlined in court papers seen by Daily Mail Online that include a scathing performance review carried out prior to his termination in Feb 2013.

The station filed the documents to rebutt a wrongful termination claim which he had brought, claiming he was the victim of discrimination because he was black and gay. The station won the case.

Flanagan earned a dismal 1 out of 5 score in several categories for his poor communication skills and a failure to show respect to colleagues.

The veteran multimedia journalist was also criticized for missing deadlines and producing reports that were 'lean on facts' and left viewers confused.

In a sometimes-rambling account of his time at WDBJ Flanagan accused co-workers of racially harassing him by placing the watermelon around the office.

'The watermelon would appear, then disappear, then appear and disappear, then appear and disappear again only to appear again,' he wrote in a May 2014 letter to presiding Judge Francis Burkart.

'This was not an innocent incident. The watermelon was placed in a strategic location.'

In his hate-filled manifesto that surfaced on Wednesday, Flanagan spoke of how his anger at perceived racial slights he had suffered, along with the Charleston church shootings, had forced him to kill the animals.

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When Will We Get To See The Roanoke Shooters Manifesto?…
Posted on August 28, 2015 by sundance

Many of us have been asking this very question. In the aftermath of the Charleston shooting the media spent days deconstructing the pontification attributed to Dylann Roof in his manifesto; even the Valdosta Times published the highly racist screed of Eric Sheppard Jr (Valdosta State Terrorist) while he was on the run from the FBI, but for some reason ABC and CNN news is reluctant in the extreme to showcase the mindset of Vester Flanagan.

One can only imagine how much the Roanoke shooter’s words cut a swath counter to the preferred media narrative.

(PJ Media) Two days ago, ABC News reported that Vester Flanagan, the murderer of two WDBJ employees, sent a 23-page faxed manifesto to ABC News. ABC reported bits and pieces of the manifesto.

Yet we still haven’t seen the full document. ABC hasn’t made it available. Why?

John Nolte and others have been busy hammering away at the racial hypocrisy of many in the media after treating Flanagan’s crimes very differently from Dylann Roof’s. Unquestionably, they were both racially motivated.

But you’d never know that from reading the headlines in the Washington Post or other mouthpieces that enable the (one way) racial grievance industry. (read more)

Couldn’t be that Vester Flanagan had a similar world-view, to Eric Sheppard Jr. could it?

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http://theconservativetreehouse.com/201 ... manifesto/

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This is a great article.

I am not giving up on looking for the Flanagan manifesto. Every news story still points to the "teaser" link on ABCnews.com :(

Even the DailyMail hasn't updated on the story in two days.... much, until today. :D


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TV gunman complained about his lack of sex and lamented how age had ended his 'glory days' as a $2,000-a-night prostitute in suicide letter

  • Vester Lee Flanagan II wrote a suicide letter to close friend Robert Avent
  • Avent received the letter in a package on Sunday - four days after Flanagan killed two former colleagues on live television
  • In the letters, Flanagan talked about his side career as a male escort and wrote about his fear of aging
  • Avent also told the New York Daily News about his last phone call with Flanagan, just moments before the 41 year old committed suicide
  • Just after killing WDBJ reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, Flanagan sent Avent a text saying he did something 'very bad'
  • Avent later called Flanagan who calming confessed to the on-air execution
  • On Sunday, hundreds gathered for an interfaith memorial for Parker and Ward in Roanoke, Virginia

By Ashley Collman For Dailymail.com
Published: 12:46 GMT, 31 August 2015 | Updated: 16:48 GMT, 31 August 2015

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The cold-blooded killer who gunned down two of his former colleagues on live TV last week was afraid of getting older and worried that his days as a $2,000-a-night male prostitute were over.

Vester Lee Flanagan II revealed his insecurities in a suicide letter and last phone call to close friend Robert Avent, of Vallejo, California.

Avent spoke with Flanagan just moments before the 41 year old committed suicide on Wednesday, while he was being chased by police.

Four days after the double murder-suicide, Avent received a package from Flanagan containing old photographs and letters which give insight into his mind in the lead-up to the on-air executions.

Avent shared the contents of the package with the New York Daily News, while also detailing his last phone call to the old friend.

Parker and Ward were interviewing Vicki Gardner, head of the Smith Mountain Lake chamber of commerce, at approximately 6.45am Wednesday morning when Flanagan approached the TV crew and opened fire.

Tens of thousands of people in Virginia were watching local station WDBJ's morning news when the shots rang out on live TV.

Parker and Ward were pronounced dead at the scene while Gardner survived, after suffering a gunshot wound to her back.

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EXCLUSIVE: Virginia killer Vester Lee Flanagan wrote letters to rant about lack of sex and his days as gay escort
BY Nancy Dillon , Stephen Rex Brown
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, August 31, 2015, 2:30 AM

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Psychopath Vester Lee Flanagan sent photos of himself along with letters to his pal Robert Avent.

Vester Lee Flanagan lamented shortly before gunning down two journalists on live TV that his glory days as a $2,000-a-night male escort were behind him, stunning new documents reveal.

The typed and handwritten letters, as well as photographs, driver’s licenses and student IDs, were shown to the Daily News by one of Flanagan’s close friends, Robert Avent, who says he spoke to the calm and collected killer moments before he committed suicide as cops closed in on him last Wednesday.

The notes provide a new window into the megalomaniacal madman’s mental state as he made the decision to exact revenge for an unsuccessful career filled with perceived racial slights.

In the stream-of-consciousness-style letters Flanagan, 41, is alternately cheery, reflective, apologetic for any hurt he caused Avent and eager to reveal the “raw truth” that racist gunman Dylann Roof’s massacre of nine black churchgoers inspired his own decision to kill.

“I do NOT wanna get old ... HELL NO!!!” Flanagan wrote.

“Please keep working out player ... when the heads stop turning, it’s AWFUL!!!”

Avent, who is straight, said he was not any part of Flanagan’s life as an escort.

“He didn’t hit on me. We were just friends and roommates. I didn’t participate in any of that,” Avent told The News.

Flanagan, apparently obsessed about his fading looks, recalled his life as a sex worker in the package to Avent.

“I totally CANNOT score right now ...,” Flanagan wrote. “And this is from a man who used to be paid hundreds an HOUR to sleep with men...one was a hot YOUNG guy in SF...he once asked, ‘Can I f--- you?’ He offered to give me $1,000...I playfully said, ‘No.’ Well, he gave me 2k.”

But Flanagan’s creepy confessional to his friend and former roommate in Vallejo, Calif., was far from over. As he fled a manhunt around 7 a.m. Wednesday following the rampage near Roanoke, Va., he texted Avent.

“Please do not respond to this text,” the perplexing message said, according to Avent, who said he didn’t see it until he woke up.

Flanagan admitted he did something “very bad,” but didn’t say what, Avent said.

“I’m sorry,” Flanagan wrote, according to Avent. “I had no other choice.”

The unexpected text was vague, so Avent didn’t reply as he rushed to his office job.

“He didn’t tell me he was planning to kill anybody. I had no idea,” Avent, 45, said Saturday, still shaken.

Around 8:30 a.m. (Pacific time) Avent called his friend from work.

“Hey, what’s going on with the text?” he said he recalled asking Flanagan.

“He said, ‘Oh, I did something this morning.’ And he was talking normal, like nothing. Like he didn’t do anything at all. Like a normal voice,” Avent recalled.

“And he said, ‘I shot and killed two people.’ Just like that, in a normal voice,” Avent said.

“No you didn’t,” Avent replied.

Flanagan told Avent to check CNN and hung up.

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Virginia WDBJ shooting survivor on the road to a full recovery

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ROANOKE, Virginia — Prayers, stories and adorable dog pictures are some of the things uplifting Vicki Gardner’s spirits as she recovers from a bullet wound in a Virginia hospital, according to a family Facebook page.

The chamber of commerce executive was shot during a live news broadcast in Virginia while she was being interviewed by two WDBJ-TV journalists. Reporter Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward were killed in the August 26 incident. The shooter, Vester Lee Flanagan II, died of a self-inflicted gun wound hours later.

Gardner underwent two surgeries after a bullet came within “centimeters” of taking her life, her husband, Tim Gardner, told ABC News.

More at link: http://fox6now.com/2015/09/07/virginia-wdbj-shooting-survivor-on-the-road-to-a-full-recovery/


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DON'T LOOK FOR MANIFESTO
On-air shooter's manifesto will not be released


By Neil Harvey | The Roanoke Times | September 5, 2015

ROANOKE — Citing concern for the victims, Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton announced Friday that his office does not intend to release the 23-page manifesto faxed to ABC News by Vester Lee Flanagan II on Aug. 26 — the same day his deadly rampage occurred at Smith Mountain Lake.

"Flanagan was determined to make his disturbing and deadly agenda a public show," Overton said in a news release. "Out of respect for Alison [Parker], Adam [Ward], and Vicki [Gardner], this sheriff’s office refuses to further aid him in that quest and allow him to re-victimize these individuals and their families by making public his rambling correspondence and writings."

The writings are evidence in an ongoing investigation, Overton said, which exempts them under the Freedom of Information Act.

Overton’s news release also acknowledged the 17 stamped letters and the "to do" list that were found in Flanagan’s car after he fatally shot himself off Interstate 66 in Fauquier County hours after the attack.

The letters ranged in length from two sentences to a full page and were addressed to people Flanagan knew personally or professionally, Overton said, adding that the notes were all "very general in nature" and provided no new insights into his motives. He said the "to do" list was similarly general but offered no specifics.

It was unclear Friday whether the intended recipients of those letters have been notified by police.

More at link: http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/local/on-air-shooter-s-manifesto-will-not-be-released/article_7ae7821c-537e-11e5-adac-4754dce238a8.html


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What a cop out. :wall

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What a cop out. :wall

Oh I agree 100% it IS a cop out.

    "The writings are evidence in an ongoing investigation, Overton said, which exempts them under the Freedom of Information Act."

What investigation? I can see this having some reason if Flanagan was in custody, but the MF'er is dead!

This sets a negligent precedent IMO.


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