Suspected shooter shoots self after writers slaughtered on air, authority says...

The associate in Wednesday's killing with two WDBJ columnists kicked the bucket at around 1:30 p.m. at a doctor's facility of a self-exacted gunfire wound, Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton told columnists.

Police say a previous WDBJ-TV journalist looked for regarding the on-air slayings of two of the TV station's representatives shot himself Wednesday on Interstate 66 in Virginia after police stood up to him.

Just before 11:30 a.m., Virginia State Police saw the suspect's auto traveled east on I-66. With crisis lights actuated, a Virginia State Police trooper started a movement stop, said police representative Corinne Geller.

The driver declined to stop and dashed away before running off the street and smashing, Geller told CNN. Troopers discovered the driver inside. He had endured a discharge wound.

He was transported to an adjacent healing facility for treatment of life-undermining wounds, Geller said. The driver is accepted to be the suspect in the on-air shootings of two WDBJ writers and an interviewee, she said without naming the driver.

Vester Flanagan, who was being looked for regarding the shootings, was a correspondent at WDBJ for around a year utilizing the on-air name, Bryce Williams, as per a previous WDBJ worker.

Flanagan was terminated from the station, however the reason was not made open, the ex-worker said.

"Two years prior, we needed to isolated him from the organization. We did comprehend that he was all the while living in the region," WDBJ General Manager Jeff Marks said.

ABC News reported that it got a fax containing a 23-page statement from somebody named Bryce Williams, acccording to a tweet. The record was given over to examiners, ABC said.

The system posted a short story reporting a percentage of the pronouncement's substance. They indicate Flanagan claiming that he had been the casualty of tormenting and separation on the grounds that he is gay and dark.

He likewise says that he was forced to react to Dylann Roof's slaughter at a Charleston, South Carolina, church in June and was motivated by Seung Hui Cho, who arranged the Virginia Tech slaughter in 2007.

Two features posted on a Twitter account under the name, Bryce Williams, show somebody strolling up to the WDBJ news group and directing a weapon at them.