#NEWSCASTER COMMITS SUICIDE ON AIR VIDEO TV#

and eventually after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him and he did not take that well.

вЂњHe was sort of looking out for people to say things that the could take offense to. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Marks, WDBJ General Manager WDBJ - AP CLIENTS ONLY, MANDATORY ON-SCREEN COURTESY вЂWDBJвЂ™ДЎ.

#NEWSCASTER COMMITS SUICIDE ON AIR VIDEO TV#

Marks, the general manager of WDBJ, said the man suspected of shooting two employees of the Roanoke, Va., TV station was quick to take offense at co-workersвЂ™ comments. Transcript WDBJ Executive Discusses Gunman Jeffrey A. ABC reported that a man claiming to be Bryce Williams had contacted the network several times in recent weeks, saying he had a story for them. Flanagan, pointed to the June 17 shooting in Charleston, S.C., in which a white supremacist is accused of killing nine black people in a Bible study group. вЂњLike many viewers, I was watching this morningвЂ™s broadcast and couldnвЂ™t understand, really, what was happening myself at that time.вЂќДЄlmost two hours after the shootings, a 23-page missive faxed to ABC News headquarters in New York, apparently from Mr. вЂњIt has really stopped me in my tracks,вЂќ he said. Ward had interviewed him about three weeks ago, and he was watching live on Wednesday when they were killed. At a midday news conference, Bill Overton Jr., the Franklin County sheriff, said Ms. Ward were known as hardworking, cheerful people who had grown up here and were romantically involved with other members of their stationвЂ™s staff. If the killings shocked the nation, they had particular resonance in this rural area where local reporters are recognized personalities. The shooting and the horrifying images it produced marked a new chapter in the intersection of video, violence and social media. 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. 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. 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. He was a fired television reporter with a history of conflicts at work and rage apparently stoked by racial grievances.

Newscaster commits suicide on air video