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Shooter of fatal on-air shooting claims he was discriminated against

Tragedy has struck a news station in Virginia in what might have been racially motivated shooting by an upset former employee.

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Bryce Williams, 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker and 27-year-old cameraman Adam Ward

Tragedy has struck a news station in Virginia in what might have been racially motivated by an upset former employee.

News Station Shooting

General manager of WDBJ-TV Jeffrey A. Marks confirmed 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker and 27-year-old cameraman Adam Ward were killed shortly after 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday during a live report.

Parker was interviewing a woman at the Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Va when gunfire erupted. The woman has been identified as Vicki Gardner, head of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce. Gardner reportedly suffered a gunshot wound to the back and is in surgery.

Shooter

According to Franklin County Sheriff Department spokesperson Phillip Young, the suspected shooter has been identified as Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, of Roanoke. Flanagan worked for WDBJ as Bryce Williams, his on-air name.

Flanagan shot self near mile marker 17 on I-66 Faquier County, around 11:25 a.m. Wednesday, says law enforcement. He died later at a hospital.

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Williams claims in a series of tweets posted after the shooting that the cameraman got him fired after reporting him to Human Resources. He also accuses Parker of making racist comments. The gunman posted an eerie video on his Facebook page showing him stalking the victims up to the moment when he pulls the trigger. Due to sensitivity of this case, we will not post that picture or the video of the shooting.

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In one tweet, Flanagan says “I filmed the shooting see Facebook.” That Facebook account as well as his Twitter have been taken down.

Flanagan spent several years in news going from station to station. According to his Linkedin profile, the San Francisco State University graduate began his career as a weekend news writer at KPIX in 1993. Throughout the years he worked as a reporter in Texas, Georgia, Florida and North Carolina before ending up in Virginia.

Vester, who was recently fired from WDBJ, also sued his former employer, WTWC NBC 40 in Tallahassee, Florida after a less than peaceful parting. Falnangan, citing racial discrimination, claimed his supervisor referred to him as a monkey and said “blacks were lazy.”


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Ballot boxes in multiple states set on fire

Local authorities said hundreds of ballots were affected.

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An investigation is underway after at least two ballot boxes were set on fire Monday morning in Oregon and Washington state.

Local authorities said hundreds of ballots were affected.

Ballot boxes on set on fire

Police responded to a call about a fire in Portland about 3:30 a.m. Monday, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement. An “incendiary device” was placed inside the box and security personnel extinguished the fire, officials said.

A second ballot box minutes away from the first was set on fire early Monday morning at a bus station in nearby Vancouver, Washington, according to the Vancouver Police Department. When officers arrived, they found a “suspicious device” next to the box, which was smoking and on fire, police said.

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The box in Vancouver is in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, where one of the most competitive races in the country is taking place.

Other locations

Other fires affecting ballots have been recently reported across the country.

Last week, a mailbox outside a Phoenix post office was set on fire, damaging an unknown number of ballots. A 35-year-old man was charged with arson in that incident. The Phoenix Police Department said he told them it was not politically motivated.

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GoFundMe started after pastor’s near-death experience

Glenn Germany was giving a sermon at a Pennsylvania church in May when a man tried to shoot him.

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Glenn Germany was giving a sermon at a Pennsylvania church in May when a man tried to shoot him.

The gun jammed and a congregation member and the pastor were able to disarm the suspected shooter. Because of that terrifying incident, Pastor Glenn Germany has started a GoFundMe to make improvements to church security.

Pastor Glenn Germany near-death experience

“After this experience, just about everything changed about mine and my family’s life overnight. I went from already being a busy man with 3 jobs to suddenly having even more on my plate – interviews, investigations, conferences, community repair, increased security measures – but nothing was removed from my plate,” the GoFundMe reads.

Seeking help

Germany is the pastor of Jesus Dwelling Place, a small church in East Pittsburgh located in a low income community. The congregation consists of about 70 people, around 15 children, 10 teenagers and 45 adults.

At the church, Germany wears many hats, from cutting grass, to plumbing, to preaching, to bookkeeping to engineering, even their live-streaming is done from his phone.

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In addition to religious services, the church provides its primarily low and fixed-income congregants with housing advice, domestic violence and mental health awareness programs, and seminars on everything from improving health to credit scores.

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To keep the church afloat, Germany and his family give more than $1,000 out of pocket every month. And now he is seeking support to keep the church safe.

“Since May 5th 2024, when that young man came into our church, from that day I had to put on a couple more hats. Prior to that day we did make my brother Pastor Gary Germany the Senior Pastor in order to take some things off my plate. But because of that incident my life has now taken on many new challenges in which I now seek support.”

To donate to the church, visit the GoFundMe.


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New Jersey detective shot and killed after suspects kicked in front door of her home

Monica Mosley, a revered detective in South New Jersey, was shot and killed during a home invasion at her residence, authorities said.

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Det. Sgt. Monica Mosley is seen in a photo released by the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office.

Monica Mosley, a revered detective in South New Jersey, was shot and killed during a home invasion at her residence, authorities said.

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Detective Sgt. Monica Mosley, with the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office, was fatally shot at her home in Bridgeton on Tuesday night, according to police.

The incident

Bridgeton Police responded to the home around 10:30 p.m. for a report of “several subjects kicking in a front door at a residence,” the Bridgeton Police Department said in a press release.

Mosley, 51, died at the scene, police said.

An individual who had been treated for a gunshot wound at a nearby hospital was detained for questioning in connection with the incident, police said. No additional information on the individual was released.

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Law enforcement career

Mosley began her career in 2006 at the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office as a paralegal specialist. She then became a county detective in 2009, “where she served our community with honor, dignity and respect before her untimely passing,” Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae said in a statement.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy expressed he was “outraged and heartbroken by the murder” of Mosley.

“As a detective with the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office, Sgt. Mosley served her community with distinction, working every day to ensure the safety and well-being of the people of Cumberland County,” he said in a statement. “This act of violence impacts our entire law enforcement community and all of New Jersey.”

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No arrests have been made or charges filed in the case, police said.

Multiple agencies are investigating the deadly shooting, including the State Police Major Crime Bureau, the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office and the Bridgeton Police Department Criminal Investigation Bureau.


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