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The fore, we dismissed him. and he did not take that well. we had to call the police to escort him from the building. >> lets go to dr. park dietz here. thank you, jim cavanaugh. what do you make of it, just looking at this set-up here? very attractive reporter gunned down on live tv, while shes doing a report with her cameraman, who is also killed by a guy who has been described as an disgruntled employee. >> my take on this, this is a workplace violence incident that resembles many others over...

Against these people. >> the authorities will look at that video. what do you think theyll get out of it? >> the biggest thing is theyll take a search warrant for his house, look at the information on his computer, in his house, what notes, what correspondence he has with other people. the video is minimal in this case. but that will be the biggest thing to discover some of the information behind this. >> its so cold-blooded, it is shocking. >> its horrible. >> john, thank you so much for being ...

Said today that vester flanagan, the shooting here, was fired two years ago from the station. lets listen to him. >> vester was an unhappy man. he -- we employed him as a reporter and he had some talent in that respect and some experience, although hes been out of the business for a while when he was hired here. he quickly became -- gathered a reputation as someone who was difficult to work with. he was sort of looking out for people to say things that he could take offense to. he -- and eventua...

Survived at first. cops have now told us he later died at the hospital, and they say before he died, he faxed this sort of manifesto to abcs network news here in new york. as for the killers claim that his former colleagues were racist, the station boss says the gunman was full of it. he says the shooter would make up lies about coworkers and enjoyed picking fights. that eventually got him fired. >> vester was an unhappy man. he quickly became -- gathered a reputation of someone who was difficul...

The business for a while when he was hired here. he quickly became -- gathered a reputation of someone who was difficult to work with. he was sort of looking out for people to say things that he could take offense to. he -- and eventually after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. and he did not that take that well. we had to call the police to escort him from the building. >> marks also described working with alison parker and adam ward. >> were hurt enough that we ...

Shooter. vester flanagan had an apparent troubling work history, one that may point to a motive in this shooting. today the general manager of wdbj addressed the history candidly on the air. >> vester was an unhappy man. he quickly, um, became -- gathered a reputation as someone who was difficult to work with. he was sort of looking out for people to say things that he could take offense to. and eventually, after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. and he did not ta...

Anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. and he did not take that well. we had to call the police to escort him from the building. >> reporter: flanagan made it several hours north where his rental chevy sonic was picked up by an electronic license plate reader. >> once a license plate is entered into the system, that read will be able to identify that license plate when it passes. >> reporter: state police pursued flanagan, but he shot himself before they could arrest him and died after bein...

Terms of his planning. >> hes an insider in the news business having worked at three stations. he understands how the news business works. he understands how the field crew works and goes out and does, you know, repetitive live piece, live shots, live hits over a couple of hours in the morning. it would be pretty easy for him to target them. and also his, what comes to the fore here as clint and i have discussed earlier, is, you know, how he shows up there. hes got a gopro camera. hes got the pi...

And eventually after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. he did not take that well. we had to call the police to escort him from the building. since then -- well, he then filed an action with the equal opportunity -- >> okay. that was the station manager from wdbj, jeff marks, talking about vester lee flanagan who on tv went by the name of bryce williams. he was the disgruntled employee that authorities believe carried out this horrific murder of two local reporters...

To the fore, we dismissed him and he did not take that well. we had to call the police to escort him from the building. >> and after the murders, williams took to twitter to claim reporter alison parker once made racist comments and that cammeron adam ward once complained about him to human resources. the "on the record" legal panel is here. former prosecutor katie phang and former homicide detective and criminal defense attorney telwilliams. katy, first to you, this man had raised trouble befor...