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Shootings at virginia tech and the columbine high school killers. his final tweet, i filmed the shooting. see facebook. drew griffin, cnn washington. >> with me now cornell west. hes a professor, author and activist with black lives matter. did race play a factor in this killers rampage? >> we dont know. the fundamental question is how do you get at this spiritual decay and this moral decadence in this society as a whole? all of us have to deal with rage. how do you filter that rage through love...

Lauer. >> its choice were make. ate choice that we feel comfortable with. but, you know, media out lets, no media out let pulled the trigger today in roanoke. so they didnt cause directly what happened. so this guy -- >> yeah, but, let me walk you through. we didnt have this thing before columbine. we had mass murderers we didnt have these spectacle murderers. we have a growing number and type of them. theres two different ways to cover them. one is if its kind of small we get, you know, sort of...

>> and then he films it. and puts it on the internet for all to see. >> only a reporter would actually think about doing this. im sure others thought about it. reporter could pull it off. he knows the impact of live television. knees how to find these representatives of his last employer and actually massacre them during a live broad cast. whats more disturbing it was the twitter and facebook he filmed it and put it on facebook. he only got these accounts a week ago. he understands the impact of...

Childhood through high school and beyond. and in the rambling 23 page fax to abc news he says his plan to kill was set in motion after the killings in charleston, south carolina earlier this summer. why did i do it? i put down a deposit for a gun on 6-19-15, the church shooting in charleston happened on 6-17-15. later, he write, admiration for the south korean national mass killer responsible for the killings at virginia tech and the columbine high school killers. his final tweet, i filmed the s...

Kill was set in motion after the killings in charleston, south carolina earlier this summer. why did i do it? i put down a deposit for a gun on 6-19-15, the church shooting in charleston happened on 6-17-15. later, he write, admiration for the south korean national mass killer responsible for the killings at virginia tech and the columbine high school killers. his final tweet, i filmed the shooting, see facebook. >> so deeply troubling. drew griffin joins us now. the shooter specifically targete...

Afterwards? anything that sort of like lets the killers know were not making you this starring role, were not making you -- playing right into your hands. this guy did it on live television, and then filmed it himself just in case the live tv didnt get it and to put it on television. what more do we need to have tell us that these people are trying to get on television? that theyre reaching for this infamy and were playing into their hands? >> i hear you. i havent mentioned his name once in my t...

Most mass killers are not mentally ill to the point they would be institutionalized. you cant lock them up. we value our freedoms in this country. will it be the second amendment or the freedom to be angry. and not like people. >> lets talk about that, then. he was angry about race. he was obsessed with race, it seems. >> he talks about the charleston shooting, virginia tech, as well.

You want to not focus on their motivations and yet you want to see if theres some window into why this could help being stopped from happening the next time. here we have the emerging picture of the killer on a rampage. he sent his explanation directly to abc news. cnn obtained a copy of this extensive suicide note. well go to senior correspondent brian stelzer who sees what is in it for all of us. >> reporter: abc says they handed over this document to investigators and the authorities are look...

As well. in this 23-page suicide note, flanagan talks about his past including claims he was a teen model, claims he was a male escort in addition to working in tv news. he discusses his personal life being a gay black man. he rants about his perceived injustices, the bullying that was going on in his life. he also praised -- offered praise for some other killers, mass murderers, if you will. he also referenced past family episodes of mental health issues, more praise for other killers. what doe...

There would be no way you could get through to him. >> in the manifesto flanagan never mentions his victims by names, but does names other killers he admired, including the gunman on virginia tech campus. he writes -- my choice of glock 19s was influenced by him. >> we were very concerned that the cho shooting took mass murder to a new level. what we said when we saw that case unfolds, the next time something like this happens, the shooter will wear a camera on his head. thats what this guy did....