US Journalists Shot Dead On Air

[AbzST64]

There was footage on twitter on the account Bryce_williams7 (now suspended) Filmed POV from the guy who did the shooting and posted it up!! Absolutely Mental!!!

[North West Tom]

The shooter has uploaded a video of the killing. He put it on Twitter (who have swiftly removed his account), and his Facebook (now also deleted) as Bryce Williams, but 15k people including myself saw it before it was taken down, so I think we'll be seeing a lot more of it.

[soad]

The suspect believed to have shot a reporter and cameraman to death on live television in Virginia is a disgruntled former employee of the station, the governor said Wednesday.

A sheriff's department identified him as Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41.


CBS News ‏@CBSNews 2m2 minutes ago
VA shooter Vester Lee Flanagan is a former employee of @WDBJ7, reported under the name Bryce Williams

[ReaderScars]

Adam Ansel said:

Suspect in Virginia shooting, Vester Flanagan/Bryce Williams has posted a 1st person video of the shooting on Twitter.

Now on youtube, uploaded about 10mins ago. He's standing behind them for what seems like 30sec before he opened fire. Very shocking.

[Adam Ansel]

[okgo]

What on earth is happening in that video, he gets the gun out while they're talking initially and nobody bats an eyelid, puts it away for 15 seconds then opens fire, really odd that nobody would flinch at initially having a gun pointed at them!

[soad]

[hornetrider]

Adam Ansel said:

Suspect in Virginia shooting, Vester Flanagan/Bryce Williams has posted a 1st person video of the shooting on Twitter.

Jesus. It's on liveleak.

[soad]

okgo said:

What on earth is happening in that video, he gets the gun out while they're talking initially and nobody bats an eyelid, puts it away for 15 seconds then opens fire, really odd that nobody would flinch at initially having a gun pointed at them!

Nobody sees it (preoccupied).

[dudleybloke]

ReaderScars said:

Adam Ansel said:

Suspect in Virginia shooting, Vester Flanagan/Bryce Williams has posted a 1st person video of the shooting on Twitter.

Now on youtube, uploaded about 10mins ago. He's standing behind them for what seems like 30sec before he opened fire. Very shocking.

Looked like he was waiting for the cameraman to turn round and film the reporter.

[Nom de ploom]

okgo said:

What on earth is happening in that video, he gets the gun out while they're talking initially and nobody bats an eyelid, puts it away for 15 seconds then opens fire, really odd that nobody would flinch at initially having a gun pointed at them!

aside from that maybe he was wrestling with some sort of conscious to not do it and gave in and pulled the trigger...or we didn't want to hit the other non tv station person, who he actually shot in the back...

FFS....in America...normal guy, gets pissed off buys gun kills people.

UK normal guy gets pissed off, rants about it, punches wall, goes to see A&E, gets hand fixed, everyone lives....

[S10GTA]

My mind is blown having seen that first person footage. This is insane.

[Adam Ansel]

ABC news received a 20+ page fax yesterday from someone claiming to be Bryce Williams.

Reports say Bryce Williams AKA Vester Flanagan has shot himself.

[London424]

[redacted]

[bitchstewie]

I do wonder if merely having access to guns is the issue as I simply struggle working out what makes people do this kind of thing.

Make handguns legal in the UK and do you think we'd see this kind of thing?

[scenario8]

Adam Ansel said:

I know it's a mundane question to ask in an otherwise quite serious thread, but from first principles can someone explain what this post is and what it contains might mean? It's gibberish formatted in an odd way to my non-Twitter, non-Facebook educated eyes!

[Mr Trophy]

Wait wait wait.

Am I reading this right, he had a gun in one hand and his phone in the other filming?

[Sheets Tabuer]

He had a go pro

[Nom de ploom]

rumours he has killed himself on a net feed a few minutes ago...

eta that first person video is truly shocking and I take back what I wrote earlier, I don't think he was having a crisis of conscience I think he was waiting for the right moment...poor poor people.

Edited by Nom de ploom on Wednesday 26th August 16:54

[S10GTA]

Mr Trophy said:

Wait wait wait.

Am I reading this right, he had a gun in one hand and his phone in the other filming?

Yes.

The twitter stuff earlier basically says Adam went to HR about me and that she is racist yet they still hired her. Seems like his justification.