reporter: flanagan outlined his frustrations in a 23-page money confess toe he faxed to abc news. cnn obtained a copy. in the final weeks of my life i put on a smiley face to disguise what was to come. around town i told random strangers or people i interacted with at businesses how i hated people but i would often say it with a smile on my face. in that manifest tore flanagan writes abouted a version for virginia tech shooter cho, the shooting at an african-american church in charleston, south carolina, describing it as the incident that sent him over the top. he says he put down the deposit on his guns two days after that shooting took place. cnn has learned flanagan purchased those guns, two glock 9 millimeter pistols, legally at a gun store in the roanoke area of virginia. after getting fired from wdbj, vester flanagan filed two cases against the station. one with the equal opportunity
i think in some ways as sad as it is, wonderful to hear the words from a father who loved a daughter so much, so good to give him the chance to express that love to the world so we all understand what he s going through. you re standing in front of wdbj right now a station going through its own healing process, if they re even there yet, in front of the memorials that are out there. give us a sense of what s happening down there today. reporter: well, the local community, john and kate, have been calling this their news family, wdbj. under the mimosa tree behind us, you see there s a memorial. the two black ribbons for those lives that were lost, alison and adam, and then you see the balloons and the flowers that usually accumulate, but there s been something bigger here that you can t see. the community has come out to put its embrace around this station and the people and, frankly, one another. because as you both witnessed first hand too many times, in the face of this type of
he led troopers on a cahase. he was dead at the hospital yesterday afternoon. flanigan was fired from wdbj? 2013. the general manager has described him as an unhappy man and difficult to work with. flanigan sent a long manifesto to abc news headquarters over racial bias and mass killings. he described himself as a powder keg ready to go boom. many of you are helping us honor alison and adam. many gathered for a prayer vigil organized by the community church in salem. people said they never thought anything like this could happen. i could not believe it. i cannot believe it. we are all our world is changing a lot. it saddens me.
yes. we re wearing ribbons today and we ll continue to wear those as long as we can. they represent adam and alison. the maroon represents virginia tech and adam s love for virginia tech and the teal was just alison s favorite color. one of our reporters put these together for us and we appreciate her efforts and it really helps solidify our feelings about them and show everyone how we feel. thank you. a lot of questions have been asked about the employment situation of vester flanagan also known as bryce williams. i wanted to put it together in a statement and we will distribute copies of the statement. and i want to thank the wdbj 7 team for coming out and joining us for this because we re all in this together. i m going to read the statement. be glad to take questions about
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