The man police believe shot and killed two journalists and 
wounded a third woman during a live segment Wednesday morning 
has died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, authorities 
confirmed in a press conference.

Just before 11:30 a.m., Virginia State Police spotted the 
vehicle of suspect Vester Lee Flanagan, 41, heading east on 
Interstate 66, according to a statement. A trooper put on his 
lights but Flanagan sped away, the release said.

"Minutes later, the suspect vehicle ran off the road and 
crashed," the statement said. "The troopers approached the 
vehicle and found the male driver suffering from a gunshot 
wound."

Flanagan used to work for Roanoke-based TV station WDBJ, where 
the slain journalists also worked, and went by the name Bryce 
Williams on air, multiple outlets report.

A Twitter account associated with Williams' name, which showed a 
video of the shooting, was suspended Wednesday shortly after the 
video was posted.

The same Twitter account from which video of the killings was 
posted also tweeted out several messages, apparently referencing 
the two victims.

Jeff Marks, the general manager of WDBJ, told CNN in an on-air 
interview that Flanagan "did make accusations against some 
people some time ago."

"You can never expect someone to come back and act on those 
issues that were so old," Marks said. "What do you do? Do you 
imagine that everybody who leaves the company under difficult 
circumstances is going to take aim?"

Someone claiming to be Williams sent a 23-page fax to ABC News 
some time between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the 
network reported. In the fax, the sender says the shooting at a 
Charleston, South Carolina, church earlier this summer pushed 
him over the edge.

"Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The 
Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15�� the fax 
said. �What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my 
hollow point bullets have the victims� initials on them."

Several outlets are reporting that Flanagan obtained the 9mm 
Glock pistol legally, and that he passed background checks to 
get it.

In the fax to ABC, he also says he's a victim of racial 
discrimination and sexual harassment, and that he has been 
targeted for being a gay black man.

"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!!!!�

San Diego 6 News Director Don Shafer told the California station 
that he worked with Flanagan in 1996 at an NBC affiliate in 
North Florida.

"He was a good on-air performer, a pretty good reporter. And 
then things started getting a little strange with him," Shafer 
said. "He threatened to punch people out. He was pretty 
difficult to work with."

Former employees told multiple outlets that Flanagan had violent 
outbursts. Station news director Kevin Zuber said Wednesday that 
"many people in the newsroom" had ongoing issues with the 
suspect.

Shafer said Flanagan was later fired and sued the station for 
racial discrimination. The case was eventually thrown out.

In a statement released Wednesday night, the family of the 
suspected gunman expressed their sorrow over the killings. 
"Words cannot express the hurt we feel for the victims," the 
family said, requesting privacy from the media.

Reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, died 
shortly after the shooting, WDBJ announced. Multiple shots rang 
out at around 6:45 a.m. during a broadcast from Smith Mountain 
Lake in the community of Moneta.

 Vicki Gardner, the executive director of the Smith Mountain 
Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, who Parker was interviewing 
at the time of the incident, was shot in the back and is 
undergoing surgery, CNN reports. Franklin County Sheriff Bill 
Overton said at a press conference that her injuries are not 
life-threatening.

Correction: Language has been updated to clarify what the sender 
of the fax was referring to in the text, "And my hollow point 
bullets have the victims� initials on them." In this case, 
"them" indicates the bullets.

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caused by one of his mentally ill homosexual, black racist 
supporters, to wave the flags for more gun control.
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