Moneta, VA – TV Shooting Suspect Called Unhappy, Angry Man

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    Investigators look at the body of WDBJ-TV cameraman Adam Ward after he and reporter Alison Parker were fatally shot during an on-air interview, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, in Moneta, Va. Authorities identified the suspect as fellow journalist Vester Lee Flanagan, who appeared on WDBJ-TV as Bryce Williams. Flanagan was fired from the station earlier this year. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Moneta, VA – The general manager of a TV station where two employees were fatally shot during a live broadcast describes the suspect as an unhappy, angry man who eventually was fired.

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    Jeffrey Marks of WDBJ-TV in Virginia talked briefly on air about Vester Flanagan— who went by Bryce Williams on the air — on Wednesday afternoon. Marks says Flanagan was hired as a reporter a few years ago after a while out of the TV news business.

    Marks says the man had a reputation of being difficult to work with and being on the lookout for people to say things he could take offense to.

    Marks says: “Eventually, after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. He did not take that well.”

    Marks says that when Flanagan was fired, police had to escort him from the building.

    Marks said that Flanagan alleged that other employees made racially-tinged comments to him and that he filed a complaint with the EEOC. But Marks says the allegations couldn’t be corroborated. He says the claim was dismissed.

    Marks says Flanagan remained in town after being fired, and every now and then, station employee ran into him.

    WDBJ listed Bryce Williams as a reporter at the station on its website on Jan. 17, 2013. By Feb. 8 that same year, his name no longer appeared on the site.


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    Secular
    8 years ago

    Black on white crime….

    anonyid
    anonyid
    8 years ago

    Well, it’s common sense that shooters and killers are unhappy depressed people. Not necessarily Arabs join ISIS but all have one thing in common. They all are unhappy bitter people who in their anger and bitterness feel they’ve got nothing to live for and might as well bring others to their graves before they kill themselves or get killed.