“We think they were fabricated,” the station manager said.ĭan Dennison, now a state government spokesman in Hawaii, was the WDBJ news director who hired Flanagan in 2012 and fired him in 2013, largely for performance issues, he said. Marks said Flanagan alleged that other employees made racially tinged comments to him, but that his EEOC claim was dismissed and none of his allegations could be corroborated. He said he filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Parker, and that Ward had reported him to human resources. Tweets posted Wednesday on the gunman’s Twitter account - since suspended - described workplace conflicts with both victims. WDBJ quickly switched to the anchor back at the station, clearly shocked, who told viewers, “OK, not sure what happened there.” Their live spot Wednesday was nothing out of the ordinary: They were interviewing a local official at an outdoor shopping mall for a tourism story before the shots rang out.Īs Parker screamed and Ward collapsed, Ward’s camera kept rolling, capturing the image of the suspect pointing the gun. Parker and Ward were a regular team, providing stories for the station’s “Mornin”’ show on everything from breaking news to feature stories on subjects like child abuse. He described himself as a “human powder keg,” that was “just waiting to go BOOM!!!!” The fax also included admiration for the gunmen in mass killings at places like Virginia Tech and Columbine High School in Colorado. shooting that was part-manifesto, part-suicide note - calling himself a gay black man who had been mistreated by people of all races, and saying he bought the gun two days after nine black people were killed in a June 17 shooting at a Charleston church.
He sent ABC’s newsroom a 23-page fax two hours after the 6:45 a.m. Flanagan’s planning may have started weeks ago when, ABC News said, a man claiming to be Bryce Williams called repeatedly, saying he wanted to pitch a story and needed fax information.
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