![]() The murders were announced on Twitter by WDBJ meteorologist Brent Watts. ![]() Gardner is in surgery, according to the Times. The woman being interviewed by Parker at the time, Vicki Gardner of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, was shot in the back, the Roanoke Times reports. The victims were Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27. I could easily imagine someone getting so sick of feeling powerless to defend themselves against psychological abuse that they turn to violence.A TV reporter and cameraman for Virginia’s WDBJ7 in Roanoke were shot and killed in the middle of a live report, the station reported Wednesday. I've tried to overcome anxiety with only middling results, and in the past year I've suddenly found myself having spikes of anger that I never had before because I just get feeling so resentful and bitter about how my anxiety has held me back and how my life could have been different and how other people hurt me in ways I can't figure out how to defend against. I guess it's because the popular idea of mental illness is full-blown schizophrenia when the truth is that most people probably have at least a mild mental illness.Īs a person with an anxiety order myself, I can believe that someone could potentially be driven to violence by even supposedly minor mental illnesses. If anything, it should make gun control even more important because we don't know how many would-be killers are out there. It's weird to me that blaming mental illness for gun violence apparently shifts the focus away from gun control. “The church shooting was the tipping point…but my anger has been building steadily.I’ve been a human powder keg for a while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!” But when I leave this Earth, the only emotion I want to feel is peace.” “Yes, it will sound like I am angry.I am. He talks about how he was attacked for being a gay, black man He says he has been attacked by black men and white females He says has suffered racial discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying at work In one part of the document, Williams calls it a “Suicide Note for Friends and Family." In an often rambling letter to the authorities, and family and friends, he writes of a long list of grievances. He got NEARLY double the amount that Eric Harris and Dylann Klebold got…just sayin.'" “Also, I was influenced by Seung–Hui Cho. Later in the manifesto, the writer quotes the Virginia Tech mass killer, Seung Hui Cho, calls him “his boy,” and expresses admiration for the Columbine High School killers. He continues, “As for Dylann Roof? You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!” He said Jehovah spoke to him, telling him to act. It is unclear whose initials he is referring to. And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them." “What sent me over the top was the church shooting. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…” “Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. In the 23-page document faxed to ABC News, the writer says “MY NAME IS BRYCE WILLIAMS” and his legal name is Vester Lee Flanagan II.” He writes what triggered today’s carnage was his reaction to the racism of the Charleston church shooting: ABC News contacted the authorities immediately and provided them with the fax. While on the phone, he said authorities are “after me,” and “all over the place.” He hung up. A little after 10 a.m., he called again, and introduced himself as Bryce, but also said his legal name was Vester Lee Flanagan, and that he shot two people this morning. This morning, a fax was in the machine (time stamped 8:26 a.m.) almost two hours after the shooting. He never told ABC News what the story was. A man claiming to be Bryce Williams called ABC News over the last few weeks, saying he wanted to pitch a story, and wanted to fax information.
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