against people some time ago. you could never imagine that somebody s going to come back and act on those issues that were so old. reporter: about a week ago, the shooter started posting pictures, an apparent life history, highlights from his childhood through high school and beyond and in the rambling 23-page fax to abc news he says his plan to kill was set in motion after the killings in charleston, south carolina this summer. 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. he writes admiration for the columbine high school shootings. his final tweet, i filmed the shooting, see facebook.
childhood through high school and beyond. and in the rambling 23 page fax to abc news he says his plan to kill was set in motion after the killings in charleston, south carolina earlier this summer. 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. later, he write, admiration for the south korean national mass killer responsible for the killings at virginia tech and the columbine high school killers. his final tweet, i filmed the shooting, see facebook. so deeply troubling. drew griffin joins us now. the shooter specifically targeted those two young journalists. any sense at this point why? reporter: the general manager of that station really is puzzled by that why he didn t come after management? why these two? but we do know from internal document from that station, from a lawsuit, john, that adam ward,
kill was set in motion after the killings in charleston, south carolina earlier this summer. 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. later, he write, admiration for the south korean national mass killer responsible for the killings at virginia tech and the columbine high school killers. his final tweet, i filmed the shooting, see facebook. so deeply troubling. drew griffin joins us now. the shooter specifically targeted those two young journalists. any sense at this point why? reporter: the general manager of that station really is puzzled by that why he didn t come after management? why these two? but we do know from internal document from that station, from a lawsuit, john, that adam ward, the photographer who was killed today was in the newsroom february 1st, 2013, when the shooter threw a tantrum upon his
chillings in south carolina earlier this summer. 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. later he writes admiration for the mass killer at virginia tech and the columbine high school killers. his final tweet, i filmed the shooting, see facebook. drew griffin, cnn, washington. cnn law enforcement analyst cedric alexander joins me in the studio. these are tragic circumstances that we speak of this situation where we see a gunman kill two journalists live on television, film it, and post it on social media. have you ever heard of such a thing and talk about the type of individual who would do such a thing. certainly i have not ever seen this before. this is very new and different
in that manifesto it s just a patch work of disjointed rationales pointing to the charleston church shooting. why did i do it? i put down a deposit on 6-19-15. the church shooting in charleston happened on 6-17-15. two glok nine millimeters were purchased about him. as for daniel roof deleted you bring it you white deleted. the madness ends. just before 11:30 a.m. virginia state police spot the silver mustang on interstate 66. this time the murderer avoid a real gunfight speeding away before running off the road and crashing. troopers fine him inside with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. he later dies at the hospital at 1:26 p.m. i want to bring in jeffrey marks the general manager of wdbj.