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Vester Lee Flanagan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Heavy.com ^ | 8-26, 2015 | Tom Cleary

Posted on 08/26/2015 11:23:15 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

A disgruntled former employee of a Virginia TV station stalked and ambushed a news crew during a live interview Wednesday morning before opening fire, killing a reporter and photographer and wounding the woman being interviewed.

Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, who went by the name Bryce Williams while working at the station, WDBJ, has been identified as the suspect. His name was initially reported as Lester Lee Flanagan.

Flanagan shot himself after being confronted by police, WHSV reports. He was taken to the hospital and died at about 1:25 p.m.

The gunman opened fire during a live interview with a member of the local Chamber of Commerce. Cameraman Adam Ward, 27, and reporter Alison Parker, 23, of WDBJ 7 TV, were killed. The woman being interviewed, Vicki Gardner, was also shot and wounded, the Roanoke Times reports. She is in surgery after being shot in the back. Gardner is the executive director at the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce.

He was later confronted by police in Fauquier County, about three hours away from where the shooting occurred.

Here’s what you need to know:

(Excerpt) Read more at heavy.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 1queer; 2gay; 3homosexual; 4rumpranger; 5turdburglar; alllivesmatter; brycewilliams; obamason; reporter; shooting; vesterflanagan; vesterleeflanagan
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To: haywoodwebb
"...He talks about how he was attacked for being a gay, black man..."

Queers often overreact violently when angered. Most serial killers are queer. There is a reason they call them "Drama Queens", they literally need to be projecting drama on everyone.

They are mentally ill, and it was right to lock them up in institutions which is what was done with them up until the sixties. I personally think the phenomena of the queers "coming out" which started in the late sixties was no doubt due to the numbers of them which had been released from the mental institutions in that era.

41 posted on 08/26/2015 11:43:42 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: TornadoAlley3

He should be mad at his parents for naming him Vester.


42 posted on 08/26/2015 11:44:06 AM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico.)
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To: TexasGator

Rent boy?


43 posted on 08/26/2015 11:46:09 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: NohSpinZone

Well, of course! You can’t have a proper Orwellian PC tyranny without the perpetually outraged class getting to have some blood on their hands!


44 posted on 08/26/2015 11:48:16 AM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Leep
Vester Lee Flanagan

Not a racist. Not a hate crime.

Workplace violence!

45 posted on 08/26/2015 11:49:23 AM PDT by IncPen (Not one single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Black, gay, perpetually offended with a chip on his shoulder, so how long before we’re told he was a Tea Party Patriot? /s


46 posted on 08/26/2015 11:49:46 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: lapsus calami

bttt


47 posted on 08/26/2015 11:52:11 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Uversabound

and was once a woman.....

&&&

?


48 posted on 08/26/2015 11:55:35 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Qiviut

He killed two people about to be married - this is an attack on heterosexual monogamy.


49 posted on 08/26/2015 11:56:54 AM PDT by struggle
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To: NohSpinZone
This is the mainstream media's Frankenstein.

They created this racism-everywhere monster for their own purposes and self glorification, and now they are paying the price as it turns on them.

They deserve everything coming their way. They made it - now they own it.

50 posted on 08/26/2015 11:57:55 AM PDT by liberty_lvr (The world is aflame and our pResident is responsible for it.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Not racist.

Not a Federal hate crime.

Not homosexual.

Not a journ0list.

How many nots can we tie this into?


51 posted on 08/26/2015 11:58:00 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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To: Timber Rattler

the 6th thing we need to know about him is the most telling : he was nuts.


52 posted on 08/26/2015 11:58:14 AM PDT by llevrok (To liberals, Treason Is the New Patriotism)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Most serial killers are queer.

***
Are you sure about that?


53 posted on 08/26/2015 11:58:29 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

“Black, gay, perpetually offended with a chip on his shoulder, so how long before we’re told he was...”

...returning to the White House after a long day on the golf course.


54 posted on 08/26/2015 11:58:57 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: ltc8k6

“The lady who was being interviewed has apparently passed away as well. So he killed all three.”

>>> Local news here in the New River Valley is saying she’s stable after surgery, but you know how it is. Rumors abound right now.


55 posted on 08/26/2015 11:59:07 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: Timber Rattler
Black sodomite who was a perpetual victim and was in love with himself and convinced himself everybody wanted to be and look like him. Good riddance scumbag.
56 posted on 08/26/2015 11:59:51 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Studies show that some people say experts agree!)
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To: NohSpinZone

” “He was sort of looking out to people to say things he could take offense to.”

“Thank you, PC Police, you BLEEPING BLEEPs, for fostering a culture of being offended by everything. This is now leading to people getting killed.”

Spot on - I caught that comment of his station manager as well.

There’s a whole cottage industry of jerks pushing so-called “micro-aggressions” against minorities. Those clowns pushing that agenda should be held to account for this sort of travesty; instead, you can expect to see them getting paid gigs laying guilt trips on incoming college students.


57 posted on 08/26/2015 12:00:12 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: Timber Rattler

6. He was gay.


58 posted on 08/26/2015 12:01:16 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: nonliberal
"He should be mad at his parents for naming him Vester."

or Uncle Vester

59 posted on 08/26/2015 12:01:53 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: CivilWarBrewing
..and if he didn’t have a gun he would’ve hacked her to death with a machete.

Yup. I used to business travel a great deal in Asia. They have very tight gun control and a relatively low availability to even get a gun if you are "qualified".

Rage murders like this are carried out with knives, saws, machetes, claw hammers...

Point is - if one is so inclined, a weapon will be found and used.

60 posted on 08/26/2015 12:02:10 PM PDT by llevrok (To liberals, Treason Is the New Patriotism)
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