manifesto and a suicide note into abc news. in it he blames today s violence on the charleston church shootings, praising the columbine and virginia tech shooters, claiming he was a victim of sexual harassment and bullying at work, picked on for being a gay black man. yes it will sound like i m angry. i am. and i have every right to be. but when i leave this earth, the only emotion i want to feel is peace. the church shooting was the tipping point. i ve been a human powder keg for a while just waiting to go boom. as you might imagine, the violence has left this town in shock. rick leventhal, thank you. joining us, alison parker s boyfriend and coworker chris
years. he went from employer to employer but everyone described him as volatile, moody, difficult. couldn t take criticism. very lowest level he was a man who could not take criticism and had no coping mechanisms. when you have to be e court offed out of your workplace by police because your co-workers are afraid of you that s a big red flag. he said he had been discriminated against and attacked by white women and black men. as a gay man. as a gay black man. so it stands to reason that he s looking at any microanalyzing any comment made to him and turning by white women he s probably considering alison parker as one of them. he s hyper vigilante for anything anybody says. he feels the world is out to get him. it becomes larger-than-life. it stacks. it layers until one day he gets inspired by in this case charleston. acts out on a fantasy he s been having for years.
you want to not focus on their motivations and yet you want to see if there s some window into why this could help being stopped from happening the next time. here we have the emerging picture of the killer on a rampage. he sent his explanation directly to abc news. cnn obtained a copy of this extensive suicide note. we ll go to senior correspondent brian stelzer who sees what is in it for all of us. reporter: abc says they handed over this document to investigators and the authorities are looking into it and pursuing it. we can share some of the details with you. we know his past employment is a teen model, male escort. he didn t spend long in any market. and his personal life describes him as a gay black man. he was discriminated against he says. he suffered injustices over time and he praised other killers
as well. in this 23-page suicide note, flanagan talks about his past including claims he was a teen model, claims he was a male escort in addition to working in tv news. he discusses his personal life being a gay black man. he rants about his perceived injustices, the bullying that was going on in his life. he also praised offered praise for some other killers, mass murderers, if you will. he also referenced past family episodes of mental health issues, more praise for other killers. what does all this say to you in your analysis? in my analysis, obviously i never met him. it feels like it lines up to feel like a paranoid personality disorder. a lot of hyper sensitivity, suspiciousness, combativeness, this buying into this conspiracy that almost feels like it s against him. a tremendous amount of contempt for others. and so what s interesting is how
the charleston church shooting was the tipping point for him and that he was being attacked for being a gay black man. a long list of grievances. 23 pages. officials coming to the podium. legal team stand by as we re about to listen to the first press conference from police, franklin county sheriff s department in hardy, virginia. these are only mike checks right now. good afternoon. i m the sheriff with the franklin county sheriff s office. i m here today with a sorrowful heart from the tragic events that have taken place earlier this morning. i just want to make sure that, through this, we continue to keep our prayers and thoughts with the family of alison parker and aaron ward. as well as the wdbj channel 7 news family. first and foremost, i m at