Gunman in live TV shooting ‘felt he was a victim in workplace’

The man who was news director during Vester Flanagan’s rocky tenure at Virginia station WDBJ-TV described him as someone who constantly saw himself being victimised by others.

Dan Dennison described Flanagan, who shot and killed a reporter and a cameraman on live television last Wednesday, as a “professional victim” during his time at the station before being fired in 2013.

“He was victimised by everything and everyone and could never quite grasp the fact that he was the common denominator in all of these really sometimes serious interpersonal conflicts that he had with people,” Dennison said.