Virginia Shooter Prepared in Advance
BOLDUAN: As friends and family and so many more are mourning the death of journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, we are getting more information this morning about the shooter's motive. Officials say he planned the attack meticulously.</s>BERMAN: Even prepped his Twitter account days before the killing with videos, and then used it to post a video of the shooting. Let's bring in CNN's senior media correspondent, host of "Reliable Sources," Brian Stelter -- Brian?</s>BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: We know he also sent a fax to ABC News, 23 pages of somewhat deranged content. We can show some of it to you and talk about what he shared. He revealed, for example, he had been a teen model many years ago, also a male escort, he says. Then becoming a television news reporter at multiple stations, never lasting very long in any of them. He described the hardships he said of being a black man and a gay man. He described being bullied, harassed, suffering injustices is one way he put it. He expressed praise for other killers, for the columbine killers, for the Virginia Tech massacre gunman. We can read some of this 23-page suicide note. He explicitly refers to dying. He says what sent me over the top was the church shooting, talking about Charleston in June. He says, "My hollow point bullets have the victims' initials on them." He said, "It should be noted the shooting took place on June 17th," and he put a deposit on his gun two days later. There's clearly a racial component, at least in his own mind. As a black man, wanting to get revenge on Dylann Roof, the Charleston church shooter, but then why attacked two of his former colleagues?</s>BOLDUAN: And it can't go without saying that he also lays out in there that he talks about in his own words that he's disturbed.</s>STELTER: That's right. Surprisingly self aware at times.</s>BOLDUAN: Right.</s>STELTER: In fact, he went on to say -- I think this is the scariest line of all -- saying, "My anger has been building steadily. I have been a human powder keg for a while, just waiting to go boom." Look at all the exclamation points afterwards. He talked about that tension that had been building up. We saw that confrontation in the video over the summer with his car. He says that's an example of the anger that had been building and eventually got to yesterday.</s>BERMAN: One of the key questions is, is there a clinical diagnosed history of mental illness here, something that people actually saw and recorded? Unknown as of now.</s>BOLDUAN: Right. And no evidence of it yet at least.</s>BERMAN: Brian Stelter, thank you so much.</s>STELTER: Thank you.</s>BOLDUAN: Thanks, Brian.</s>BERMAN: Coming up for us, other news, a brand new poll shows Donald Trump with his biggest lead yet, but the headline might be who isn't in second place, by a lot.</s>BOLDUAN: And the teenager accused of raping a younger student at a prestigious New Hampshire prep school, he takes the stand. What Owen Labrie said and whether the jury was swayed. Closing arguments happening right now. That's ahead.