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Vester Flanagan was ordered by his former employer to seek help from mental health professionals Vester Flanagan was ordered by his WDBJ7 to seek mental health or be fired after 'threatening' behaviour
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The gunman who killed two journalists on-air was ordered to seek mental health assistance or face termination from his past employer. The gunman who killed two journalists on-air in Virginia before killing himself was reportedly ordered to seek mental health assistance or face termination from his past employer.
The documents, first reported by the Guardian, show several emails between Vester Flanagan, Dan Dennison, WDBJ-7 news director, and several senior colleagues at the station. Documents, obtained by The Guardian, reportedly show several emails between the gunman Vester Flanagan, WDBJ-7's news director Dan Dennison, and several senior colleagues at the station.
He was eventually told to contact employee assistance professionals at the company Health Advocate. “This is a mandatory referral requiring your compliance,” Dennison told Flanagan on 30 July 2012. “Failure to comply will result in termination of employment.” In one memo, Mr Dennis warned Flanagan, known professionally as Bryce Williams, that in one month he had "behaved in a manner that has resulted in one or more of your co-workers feeling threatened or uncomfortable", according to the paper.
On Christmas Eve that year, Dennison emailed colleagues to say he had just warned Flanagan that he had one final chance to save his job. “I’m not entirely sure where his head is at,” said Dennison. Flanagan was fired three months later. After an initial warning to seek "employee assistance professionals" at a company called Health Advocate on 30 July 2012, he reportedly was given a final chance on Christmas Eve that year. Dennison reportedly emailed colleagues saying: "I'm not entirely sure where his head is at." He was fire three months later when police escorted him from the newsroom's building.
“On three separate occasions in the past month in the past month and a half you have behaved in a manner that has resulted in on or more of your co-workers feeling threatened or uncomfortable,” Dennison wrote in the memo, addressed to Bryce Williams. Nearly two years later Mr Flanagan would take the lives of two of his former WDBJ-7  coworkers.
Mr Flanagan was eventually fired from his position and was escorted from the newsroom's building by police. Nearly two years later Mr Flanagan would take the lives of two of his former WDBJ-7  coworkers.
In 2014, he filed racial and sexual discrimination lawsuits against the station. The case was eventually dismissed.In 2014, he filed racial and sexual discrimination lawsuits against the station. The case was eventually dismissed.
“Your Honor, I am not the monster here. I get along with my current co-workers... That sure doesn’t sound like the monster I was painted to be,” he wrote in the filing. However, employees at the station vehemently deny these claims.“Your Honor, I am not the monster here. I get along with my current co-workers... That sure doesn’t sound like the monster I was painted to be,” he wrote in the filing. However, employees at the station vehemently deny these claims.
The Independent has reached out to WDBJ Television for comment.The Independent has reached out to WDBJ Television for comment.
It emerged after the death of Flanagan that a 23-page manifesto had been sent to ABC News, purportedly sent by a Bryce Williams.
In it, he blamed the murder on the Charleston Church massacre, in which nine black people were killed in South Carolina.
Referring to the Charleston gunman Dylann Roof, it read: "You want a race war (redacted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(redacted)!!!"
  
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