![]() He got NEARLY double the amount that Eric Harris and Dylann Klebold got. "Also, I was influenced by Seung-Hui Cho. He also praised other perpetrators of gun massacres, saying Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho killed almost twice as many people in 2007 as those who died during the 1999 Columbine massacre. "As for Dylann Roof? You ! You want a race war ? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE. ![]() And my hollow point bullets have the victims' initials on them." "What sent me over the top was the church shooting. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15." Flanagan wrote, explaining that as a gay, black man, he had suffered discrimination from others. "Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. Roof posted a rambling manifesto online in which he described black people as subhuman and accused them of raping white women. Vester Lee Flanagan II, who fatally shot local television station employees Alison Parker and Adam Ward and wounded another woman Wednesday morning on live TV, faxed a 23-page manifesto he described as a "suicide note for friends and family" to ABC News explaining his motivation for the killings.Īfter sending the document to authorities, ABC News released excerpts of the manifesto, in which Flanagan stated he was motivated in part by the June massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in which white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine black members of the historically black church's congregation.
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