Reporter and Camerman killed on air.

[dinolounger]

And ummm...no censor. I'm just a little protective of innocents that may find themselves with the "wrong" name.

Oh, please....there wasn't any sort of "John Smith" rush-to-judgement-mistaken-identity situation here. Google all you want , you aren't going to come up with duplicate Vester Lee Flanagans and it was legal authorities in VA, not some rumor blog or Facebook comment that I based my original and valid I.D. posting on.

 

[Mizzoufan]

ABC says they have a 20 page confession letter from the shooter. That he sent them

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

It's all in the delivery I believe.

 

[Kitty 34]

I just hope this doesn't turn all racial.....he was an idiot man killing innocent people.

 

[TAX GUY]

I just hope this doesn't turn all racial.....he was an idiot man killing innocent people.

I don't think it will (if so, pretty sure it would have been tossed around already). Plus, in order for the media to put a racial spin on it, the shooter and victims would have needed to have been reversed.

 

[leebee]

I just heard on the radio that the shooter was a former employee of the TV station who was let go after several incidents that required disciplinary actions. Apparently he was rather disgruntled when they fired him. Report said that they had to have security come to get him out of the building on the day they let him go. The TV station manager (I think that's who was being interviewed) said they think this shooting was in retribution for the shooter having been fired.

 

[gwynne]

I just heard on the radio that the shooter was a former employee of the TV station who was let go after several incidents that required disciplinary actions. Apparently he was rather disgruntled when they fired him. Report said that they had to have security come to get him out of the building on the day they let him go. The TV station manager (I think that's who was being interviewed) said they think this shooting was in retribution for the shooter having been fired.

That's what I read, too. The thing that stuck out to me the most was that the firing was 2 years ago. He must have spent countless hours since then carefully nursing his grudge. His acts today were pure evil.

 

[Feralpeg]

That's what I read, too. The thing that stuck out to me the most was that the firing was 2 years ago. He must have spent countless hours since then carefully nursing his grudge. His acts today were pure evil.

I wonder if it was just a,spur of the moment thing. A man nursing a grudge sees a film crew and it sets him off. Wouldn't be surprising that he carried a gun.

 

[ChrisFL]

I wonder if it was just a,spur of the moment thing. A man nursing a grudge sees a film crew and it sets him off. Wouldn't be surprising that he carried a gun.

a 20 page manifesto kinda seems to disprove that

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Oh boy. Lots of information to mull through here, including his saying the bullets had the initials of the Charleston shooting victims on them, and praising other U.S. mass shooters, including those from Columbine, Virginia Tech and the school shooting. Says he's been stewing and angry for a very long time. Somewhat bizzarely posted a bunch of pictures of himself from days gone by over the past days on social media. Says he bought the gun two days after the Charsleston shootings; that that was the final straw, etc.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ker-Adam-Ward-shot-live-TV-Moneta-gunman.html

 

[asta]

The shooter faxed a long diatribe to ABC where he claimed the shootings were in response to the Charleston shootings and mistreatment he received as a gay, black man. I guess that explains the photo on his Facebook page of him in a silver thong under a silver fishnet jumpsuit. I need brain bleach for that one.

 

[Mizzoufan]

The shooter faxed a long diatribe to ABC where he claimed the shootings were in response to the Charleston shootings and mistreatment he received as a gay, black man. I guess that explains the photo on his Facebook page of him in a silver thong under a silver fishnet jumpsuit. I need brain bleach for that one.

Is his Facebook page still up?

 

[asta]

I just hope this doesn't turn all racial.....he was an idiot man killing innocent people.

Based on his manifesto I don't see how you can dismiss the racial motive. He says that he was motivated to shoot based on racial issues. In my book that makes him a racist. I think he was crazy just like I am sure the Charleston shooter is also crazy.

 

[asta]

Is his Facebook page still up?

No, they took it down this morning.

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

Tragedy after tragedy and we still won't talk about guns and mental illness. Everyone wants to talk about the crime but no one cares enough to change laws to try to fix this mess. Just idle gossip until the next one.

 

[Minnesota!]

I am so shook by this today. I had a dream on Tuesday night about this happening here in MN. I am just...shocked.

 

[Domo]

Awful. Just awful

 

[mnrose]

Another day, another bunch of people dead at the hand of a gunman. And, there will be more tomorrow, and next week, and next month and next year. Sigh. I can't even get that indignant about it anymore. It's just so, well, expected. And, anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't been paying attention.

 

[SkaGoat]

Apparently Mr. Robot's season finale was postponed.

USA Network has postponed tonight’s scheduled season finale of hacker drama series “Mr. Robot” for a week because the episode includes a scene with similarities to the real-life murders that occurred on live TV this morning in Virginia.

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/mr-robot-live-tv-killings-virginia-1201579137/

 

[Geoff_M]

Tragedy after tragedy and we still won't talk about guns and mental illness. Everyone wants to talk about the crime but no one cares enough to change laws to try to fix this mess. Just idle gossip until the next one.

From what I have read, I don't think he suffered from "mental illness" in any way. He clearly understood what he was doing, methodically planned out the murders, wrote a seething 20-page "manifesto" explaining his feelings and actions, video taped the ambush and then posted it on-line after the fact, and when it was obvious he was about to be apprehended he killed himself. Other than his actions being something we cannot fathom doing personally, he hardly seemed detached from reality in any way.