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Okay, the shooter in Virginia is dead.

He was Vester L. Flanagan II, a 41 year old black man.


Apparently he had been writing in to various news outlets wanting to publish a story, but could not get it done.

He ended up faxing in a suicide explanation (many pages long) today after the shooting indicating his real name was Vester L. Flanagan II, but going by the pseudo name of Bryce Williams .

He said he was mad about the Charleston South Carolina Church shooting, that he was treated badly as a black gay man, and that he had autographed each of the bullets he used today with the names of those killed in the Church.

Flannigan said:

“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!!!!”

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Apparently he was seen by officers and chased, but then his auto crashed and he was found mortally wounded in the car with a self-inflicted guinshot wound to the head. He later died.

It turned out he was as whacked out, hateful, angry, and murderous, as the lunatic who attacked the church and decided he was going to take some people with him...and it did not matter who the innocent people were...when he went off.

Jeff Head said:

Okay, the shooter in Virginia is dead.

He was Vester L. Flanagan II, a 41 year old black man.

Apparently he had been writing in to various news outlets wanting to publish a story, but could not get it done.

He ended up faxing in a suicide explanation (many pages long) today after the shooting indicating his real name was Vester L. Flanagan II, but going by the pseudo name of Bryce Williams .

He said he was mad about the Charleston South Carolina Church shooting, that he was treated badly as a black gay man, and that he had autographed each of the bullets he used today with the names of those killed in the Church.

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Apparently he was seen by officers and chased, but then his auto crashed and he was found mortally wounded in the car with a self-inflicted guinshot wound to the head. He later died.

It turned out he was as whacked out, hateful, angry, and murderous, as the lunatic who attacked the church and decided he was going to take some people with him...and it did not matter who the innocent people were...when he went off.

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How sad and infuriating! If a lunatic wants to take his own life, then by all mean please do so or at least seek out some psychiatric assistance. However, please do not take innocent lives with you. My heart goes out to the two young news people that lost their lives at their prim. The suffering that the parents and loved one must endure is heart breaking.

So very sad

I just find it strange (although now expected?) that this is being covered and even commented on by the White House as more of a gun-control related issue, when in reality it was a targeted racial murder. Where if it had been a white shooter, the race and hate crime aspect would be front and center from minute one...

This type of sad incident reinforces how off the rails MSM has become.

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Zool said:

I just find it strange (although now expected?) that this is being covered and even commented on by the White House as more of a gun-control related issue...

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Well, you are correct, but that is politics...and SD is not a political forum.

So let's not go there.

I'm not going to post the link here, but the virginia shooter actually took a video of himself carrying out the actual shooting, from almost a "first person" point of view... not dissimilar to an FPS video game, terrifyingly enough.

God one just does not feel safe anywhere in the world today.

Bltizo said:

I'm not going to post the link here, but the virginia shooter actually took a video of himself carrying out the actual shooting, from almost a "first person" point of view... not dissimilar to an FPS video game, terrifyingly enough.

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I actually watched that video you mention on liveleak. That's probably one of the most intense and terrifying video I've ever watched even though it's not bloody at all compared to other videos over there.

But knowing what would happen next from the shooter's view perspective just creepy. Usually I skip anything too graphic or bloody videos. But this time curiosity got the better of me and I'm not sure that's a good idea. it's a very disturbing video to say the least....

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Back to bottling my Grenache

Please excuse my ignorance, but I thought Venezuela is in terrible shape right now, why are Colombians still going there?

It was that guy in the video. He is Turkish.