and think about what he wanted to do to make himself a victim. he basically studied every other high-profile shooting in recent past and puts that in his manifesto. this is a copy-cat crime for retribution according to him. it s sick and disgusting. he says in part of it, john, that i am a human powder keg for a while just waiting to go boom. apparently this was the way in which the trigger was the22ñ charleston church shootings. he also said that he was facing discrimination, in his mind, for being a gay black man. let s make one thing clear when you read this manifesto, this is a sick, very sick, individual. this is somebody who believes he s getting messages from jehovah, who is telling him how to act. this is not a rational human being. i think part of the investigation will be focused on what kind of behavioral health care was he getting, was he under the supervision of anybody, was he making threats, did people know about it.
it you want a race war bring it you white [bleep]. praised the virginia texas shooter and the columbine killers and saying he had had a victim of racial discrimination, sexual harassment, bull idea at work picked on for being a gay black man. yes, it will sign like i m angry, i am. i have every right to be. when he i leave this earth the only emotion i want to feel is peace. the church shooting was the tipping point but my anger has been building steadily. i have been a human powder keg for a while just waiting to go boom. of course, seeing the shooting play out on live tv was shocking especially for people in the control room including adam ward s fiancee who was producing that morning show and the franklin county sheriff who was watching it live on tv. it is really stopped me in my tracks this morning, like many viewers, i was watching this morning s broadcast, and couldn t understand really what was happening myself at that time. it s emotional for you?
another glock pistol as well. right now, tests are going to be done, conducted to determine which gun he used. escorted out of the newsroom threatening but not illegal, so doesn t show up on his record. what more are we learning about the 23-page manifesto ? reporter: a man believed to be the gunman sent this rambling suicide letter to abc news a couple hours after the shooting. he said in that manifesto that he had been bullied for being a gay black man. he said this went on for years. here is one of the something he said. the photogs were out to get me. one went to hr after only working with me one time. the chief photog told his troops to record video of me if they
cuomo talked about that someone sent in with the road rage that this was a person who just viewed the world in a very skewed manner, saw himself as a victim, saw himself as being picked on, had idiosyncratic interpretations of many things. was very much a very paranoid, dysfunctional personality and therefore that acting out, choosing two young people, these became symbols of things or people he felt were absolutely keeping him down. you ask the question as to why he chose them. i think he chose them because they were young, they were bright, they had a future, and in himself he saw no future. he knew his career was over and that he was headed towards death. because you know, don, in the 23 page document that he faxed to abc news he writes that he was suffering from racial discrimination, sexual harassment, he said he was attacked for being a gay black man.
individual. in this released manifesto faxed to them, he says he suffered racial discrimination, sexual harass hadn t, he was attacked by black men and while females how he was attacked for being a gay black man. we also want to show you something else, something very, very different. a propromotional video that alison parker made for her station. watch this. something viewers may not know about me is i come from a family that absolutely loves the arts. my woman works for the arts in martinsville. my dad was on broadway, and i played trumpet and french horn in high school, and continue to go and support community theater events throughout our region. i think it s something that s very, very important, and i will always support it. when i was younger, i was really