Vester Flanagan who also goes by the name Bryce Williams yesterday shocked the world when he shot dead Reporter, Alison Parker 24 and Cameraman James Ward on a live TV show. He recorded the killing and posted it on Facebook.
Flanagan was hired in 2012 as an 'editorial assistant/general news reporter' on a salary of $36,000 per year by WDBJ, a Tv station in Virginia, U.S.A
Documents show he quickly fell foul of his employers, and after being fired the following year he tried to sue the company for $25,000, saying he had been discriminated against and sexually harassed for being gay.
Employees of WDBJ recalled Flanagan as an argumentative diva who was 'always looking to play the race card' He clashed repeatedly with photojournalists, belittling them in public and intimidating them with his violent temper.
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.
However when he returned to his old ground, he did with his Camera, shot dead reporter Parker and Cameraman Ward on a live TV show then posting the video of his acts on Facebook ...he later faxed a 23 page manifesto to a news channel where he claimed he was inspired by the Charleston Church killings.
He killed himself hours later while being chased by the Police.
President Obama expressed his shock saying: 'It breaks my heart every time you read or hear about these kinds of incidents’.
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