Vester Lee Flanagan: shooting suspect shoots himself dead
Virginia TV shooting suspect Vester Lee Flanagan, who appears to have posted a video online showing the shooting of two WDBJ journalists, has died from self-inflicted shooting.
Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, were killed in a gun attack during a live TV broadcast at 6.45am Eastern Time. A third person remains in hospital.
Vester Lee Flanagan, who went by the pseudonym Bryce Williams, appears to have posted the material on both his Twitter and Facebook account. Both accounts have since been suspended and the videos are no longer available.
Tweets from the Bryce Williams account, posted just hours after the shooting, included: “I filmed the shooting see Facebook.”
A later tweet included an apparent video of the shooting.
The news station WDBJ7, citing state police, has reported that the shooter is in very critical condition, amid conflicting reports that he has shot himself.
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