Virginia on-air shooter Bryce Williams is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but police have his 23-page manifesto now which the African American TV newsman sent before gunning down his colleagues today.
Williams, whose real name is Vester Flanagan, claimed he was subjected to both racial and gay slurs from his slain white victims, reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, while working at the same television station, WDBJ7.
An #EEOC complaint concerning those alleged work abuses which he angrily referenced on Facebook and Twitter has also been confirmed.
All of Bryce Williams’ social media accounts were taken down today, however, following his account uploads of a video capturing the televised shooting of Parker, Ward, and a third woman.
The latter has survived her injuries and surgery, and is expected to recover. The suspect shot her in the back as she fled from him, but she isn’t believed to have been an original target in the revenge killings.
After the public shooting, Williams himself fled the scene by car and was given chase. Police ultimately cornered him alongside a major highway, where he subsequently crashed his vehicle and shot himself.
Officers found the gunman unresponsive but still alive after the road incident, then transported him to a nearby hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
The manuscript he faxed to the media in advance of killing Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, as the two were filming a live news piece this morning for #WDBJ, has been forwarded to authorities and made part of their ongoing investigation.
