Vester Lee Flanagan II
NYT
He was a fired television reporter with a history of conflicts at work and rage apparently stoked by racial grievances. And when he sought revenge on Wednesday, gunning down two former colleagues, he used the tools of social media to ensure that his crime was broadcast live, recorded from multiple angles and posted online.
Vester
Lee Flanagan II, 41, identified by the authorities as the gunman,
waited until Alison Parker and Adam Ward, young journalists at WDBJ in
Roanoke, were on air, then killed them while recording on his own video
camera. Mr. Flanagan shot himself in the head hours later, the
authorities said, but as the chase for him was on, he wrote about the
shooting on Twitter, uploaded his video to Facebook and sent a manifesto
to ABC News that spoke admiringly of mass killers and said that as a
black, gay man he had faced discrimination and sexual harassment.
The shooting and the horrifying images it produced marked a new chapter in the intersection of video, violence and social media.
Black Racist Heterophobe kills two white people because of their race.....white lives matter
ReplyDeletethis is very bad attitude of this man, his gun licence should be cancelled.
ReplyDeleteBet he didnt have one. But it didnt matter since he cancelled himself from living anyway.
DeleteOne thing about the anti/pro gun debate; it's not the anti gun side that is full of killers. It's always a pro gun (gun owner) nut job that pulls out his gun and starts killing because he felt dissed for some reason.
ReplyDeleteGood point which conveniently goes unnoticed by our resident gun nuts.
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