WDBJ Shooting Killer Vester Flanagan, aka Bryce Williams, a Former Male Escort! [DETAILS]

By Star Connor (s.connor@mstarsnews.com) | Aug 31, 2015 12:39 PM EDT

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The are new details on the WDBJ killer Vester Flanagan, also known as Bryce Williams. MStars News has learned that the troubled reporter was a male escort before he took the lives of WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and WDBJ cameraman, Adam Ward.

According to New York Daily News, new documents revealed that Flanagan was paid $2,000-a-night as a gay male escort.

In typed and handwritten letters, along with photographs, driver's licenses and student IDs, Flanagan's entire life was exposed. One of his close friends, Robert Avent, revealed that he spoke to Flanagan before he took his own life when cops found him on Interstate 66 last Wednesday. The documents provided grim details of Flanagan's plans of revenge following an unsuccessful career in journalism, and his racial hate for Dylann Roof (the man who killed nine chruchgoers in Charleston in June), which he claimed encouraged him to move forth with shooting the WDBJ workers.  

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"I do NOT wanna get old ... HELL NO!!!" the 41-year-old wrote. "Please keep working out player ... when the heads stop turning, it's AWFUL!!!" Flanagan told his pal after he started gaining weight that his looks were no longer attractive. "I totally CANNOT score right now ...," Flanagan admitted, talking about his lack of sex life. "And this is from a man who used to be paid hundreds an HOUR to sleep with men...one was a hot YOUNG guy in SF...he once asked, 'Can I f- you?' He offered to give me $1,000...I playfully said, 'No.' Well, he gave me 2k." The chilling letter to Avent, his former roommate in Vallejo, Calif., didn't end there. He texted his friend right after he had shot Parker, Ward and 61-year-old chamber of commerce executive, Vicki Gardner. "Please do not respond to this text," Avent claimed that text message read. Avent said that Flanagan had revealed that the did "something very bad," but didn't go into details about the shooting. "I'm sorry. I had no other choice," Flanagan's text continued.

"He didn't tell me he was planning to kill anybody. I had no idea," Avent, 45, admitted, as he remained in shock about his friends actions. When he finally got on the phone to call Flanagan, he asked: "Hey, what's going on with the text?" "He said, 'Oh, I did something this morning.' And he was talking normal, like nothing. Like he didn't do anything at all. Like a normal voice," Avent claimed the conversation went. "And he said, 'I shot and killed two people.' Just like that, in a normal voice," Avent recalled. "No you didn't," a shocked Avent said as he checked the national news to get the confirmation, as Flanagan told him to do. Before Flanagan made up his mind to end his life, he told his friend, "I'm just riding. But I'm not going to jail." "He asked me, 'How come you seem so calm after I told you what I did? You don't seem like it bothers you,'" Avent described. "Now it looks like a bunch of police cars behind me now," Flanagan said to Avent before shooting himself.

"Man, I'm not going to prison. I'm going to shoot myself in the head," Flanagan declared, and was prepared to take his own life. "He asked me if there was anything I wanted to say before he goes," Avent said, while trying to find the right words to say. "He said, 'Come on, spit it out! I don't have much time,'" Avent said, while telling his pal that he loved him. "He said, 'I love you and thank you for being there for me.'" Shortly after, Flanagan hung up the phone and shot himself.  

MStars News previously reported that Flanagan was pronounced dead around 1:30 last Wednesday after being taken to a local hospital, during a press conference. In Flanagan's manifesto he talked about his last wishes and said that he wanted to be cremated. "I stated my last wishes ... to be cremated. NO FUNERAL!! That didn't raise a red flag?" Flanagan demanded.

Avent claims that his troubled friend didn't have a great relationship with his family. "He felt his family didn't like him," Avent explained. "He said they didn't like his lifestyle and didn't want to come over. He got very upset about it."

The friend says that Flanagan was a lonely man. "He didn't have anybody to talk to. He was home by himself. When you're home by yourself and you think a lot - he started thinking bad things."

Flanagan and Avent met in Greenville, N.C., at a gym back in 2002. They were roommates from 2006 to 2012, in California.


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