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Former Florida Co workers of Virginia Shooter Vester Flanagan got together last night to share stories and support. As Mike Vasilinda tells us, for one of those co workers, it is a feeling of but for the grace of god she was not also a victim.

Tallahassee TV-40 Alumni who worked with Vester Flanagan circulated a photo collage on social media. Of the 30 or so group photos, Flanigan appears in just four…and is smiling in only one.

Nancy Dignon was a meteorologist at the Tallahassee TV station and is still chilled by a run in with Flanagan following a weekend news cast.

“I had just kinda mentioned to my producer, It was a mistake. It shouldn’t have been opening arguments. It should have been opening statements. And he overheard me and came over and started yelling at me, and he was a pretty intimidating guy, and as he’s yelling at me that I’m not his news director or anything, I couldn’t think of anything to say but you can;’t talk to me like that. And he..and as you said, he wanted to take it outside, and I was…stunned” says Dignon, who now teaches at a Community College.

Flanagan spent just a year on TV here. He contract was not renewed, in part because of his run in with Nancy Dignon.

Dignon says that for those who are used to being in front of a camera, telling other people’s story, the hideous crime hits too close to home.

Q:“You’re wearing dark glasses. It’s been a tough couple of days?” We asked.

“It’s probably the most difficult day and a half of my life. You know…for a lot of other folks I worked with its a tough time, and it’s tough to process all this, I think.”

Many who worked with the former anchor refuse to mention his name as they soothe each other’s fears on social media.

Flanagan filed a lawsuit against the Tallahassee station after his contract was not renewed alleging racial discrimination. None of the former employees say they ever saw race based discrimination, but say Flanagan was shunned because he was difficult.”