threateni threatening. members of the news staff had to evacuate the newsroom in that incident when he was fired. thank you. we are getting information about the lengthy, rambling manifesto he faxed to abc news about two hours after the shooting. let s bring in our justice correspondent pamela brown, she s getting information on this part of the story. what are you learning? reporter: wolf, investigators say the murders were premeditated. now we are learning the man appearing to be the gunman sent a 23 page rambling letter to abc news a couple hours after the shooting saying he was the subject of racial discrimination and bullying for being a gay black man. said he endured this for years. one part of the letter says yes, it will sound like i am 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. he goes on to express admiration for other shooters, including virginia tech and columbine high school shooters. he says it was
they ll look at the previous employment that he had. he makes allegations throughout his career, as clint mentioned, about being racially harassed, sexually harassed. he points out in his 23-page suicide note that he was being ostracized for being a gay black man. and also as clint points out, an individual who cites mass shooters as being victims and he picks up a weapon to address his issues. what s also interesting, you see the things that have happened to him in the way of employment being terminated and other issues. unfortunately, these are the kinds of issues that would not raise to the level of being entered in a database should he go out and in effect apply to buy a firearm as he did. so even though he s been terminated once before, even though he s been a troubled and almost, we ve heard, a violent employee, it s not something that would preclude him from
away. the ceo of the security group is with me in studio now. is in a hate crime? no. to the actions that he displayed from the manifesto to the time he was terminated in 2013. but it says in the manifesto that he wrote 2 pages and facts to abc news and now in the hands of fox. he talks about race a lot. he put the initials of the charleston church shooting victims on the bullets that he used today. he praised the virginia tech mass killer, the columbine high school killers. he says he was being attacked for being a gay black man. he shot three white people today. right. why is that not a hate crime? well, because of the fact that the workplace violence offender is clearly delusional. they make up their own sense of reality and they struggle with their sense of identity. so they don t like who they are. they make up something that will envision them as a victim, as the quintessential victim. it s a finger pointing. now, hate crime is something where he clearly was motivated