Virginia gunmen sued another station before he was asked to leave WDBJ7

The 41-year-old who claimed responsibility for the on-air slayings of a Virginia TV reporter and her cameraman had a track record of claiming racism in the workplace and wrote a 23-page manifesto that called the Charleston, South Carolina church shooting the final straw before he bought a gun.


In the letter sent to ABC News two hours after the shooting, Vester Lee Flanagan II--who was raised a Jehovah's Witness in California--details his sinister reasoning for Wednesday's slaying.

Dylann Roof, the Virginia Tech shooter, Columbine and Jehovah himself all factored in, he wrote.

'As for Dylann Roof? You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!' he wrote in his final screed.