“Retribution”: Elliot Rodger posted a video to social media in which he outlines his plan for 'retribution' for being rejected by women
Dystopian fantasy: It's believed Rodger is the son of Peter Rodger, assistant director for The Hunger Games, about an annual televised death match. He is seen here at the film's 2012 premiere (left, with Sylvester Stallone second from right)
Privileged: Rodger seen here in his BMW, the number plates of which match the vehicle from which he shot and killed six people
College community horror: A body is covered on the ground after a mass shooting near the campus of the University of Santa Barbara in Isla Vista, California, Friday, May 23
Shooter goes on rampage near Santa Barbara university campus
Chase: Rodger crashed his BMW after he was pursued by police
Friday night: Fire trucks are parked outside the IV Deli Mart on Pardell Road in Isla Vista after a drive-by shooter went on a rampage near a Santa Barbara university campus that left seven people dead, including the attacker, and seven others wounded
'I'm 22 years old and I'm still a virgin. I've never even kissed a girl,' he says in the video.
“College is the time when everyone experiences those things such as sex and fun and pleasure. But in those years I've had to rot in loneliness. It's not fair. You girls have never been attracted to me. I don't know why you girls aren't attracted to me. But I will punish you all for it,”
he says in the video, which runs to almost seven minutes.
He repeatedly promises to “punish” women and lays out his plan for “retribution.”
“I'm going to enter the hottest sorority house of UCSB and I will slaughter
every single spoilt, stuck-up, blonde s**t that I see inside there. All those girls that I've desired so much, they would've all rejected me and looked down on me as an inferior man if I ever made a sexual advance towards them,” he says.
“I'll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you. You will finally see that I am, in truth, the superior one. The true alpha male,” he laughs like a maniacal movie villain. “Yes... After I have annihilated every single girl in the sorority house I will take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see there. All those popular kids who live such lives of hedonistic pleasure...”
Rodger's Twitter account has only two tweets, posted on April 19 and 20.
“Why are girls sexually attracted to obnoxious, brutish men instead of sophisticated gentlemen such as myself? #girls #perverted #sex #unfair,” reads the first.
Witness: Sienna Schwartz said the shooter spoke to her and then shot at her as she walked away
Friday night: Many students were out on the streets on Friday night in the densely populated area when Rodger began his rampage
“Seven dead, including attacker, in University of California...,”
“Why do girls hate me so much?” he posted on April 20, along with a now-deleted YouTube video.
Deputies found the suspect inside the BMW dead from a gunshot wound to the head. But the sheriff said he did not know if the suspect was shot and killed by deputies or if the wound was self-inflicted. A semiautomatic handgun was recovered.
As the shooting unfolded, residents took to social media to share the news and warn others.
'I could have easily been dead right now. RIP to the girls who got shot and killed and other people who got run over by this idiot,' tweeted one.
'ANYONE IN IV NEEDS TO STAY INSIDE. There is a shooting rampage by a white male in a black BMW shooting as he is driving by,' wrote another.
A witness says Rodger fired into a crowd standing outside of a Deli Mart.
'I heard somewhere between 12 to 20 shots into a group of people who were eating in front of it,' witness Robert Johnson told NBC Los Angeles.
Sienna Schwartz said the shooter approached her and said, 'Hey what up?' and then began shooting at her as she walked away.
The distressed girl said she initially thought the gun the shooter flashed at her was an airsoft gun but realized it was real when three or four bullets buzzed past her ears.
Loneliness: Rodger says that his college years have been marked by solitude, while his peers have enjoyed “sex and fun and pleasure”
Premeditated attack: Police and emergency personnel tend to a victim at the scene of a drive-by shooting in Isla Vista, a neighborhood of Santa Barbara, California May 23
“Work of a madman”: Police investigate a scene after a mass shooting near the campus of the University of Santa Barbara in Isla Vista
Mass murder: Seven people shot dead at a student enclave at the campus of the University of California in Santa Barbara
Rodger was [sic] a website forum called PUAHate.com, which describes itself as the “Anti-Pickup-Artist Movement” and aims to reveal “the scams, deception, and misleading marketing techniques used by dating gurus and the seduction community to deceive men and profit from them.”
Its members are all men who have spent a lot of time and money on books and seminars and other materials that claim to help men “pick-up” women - but failed.
The bitter, often misogynistic threads are full of tales of woe from men who don't know how to get women to date them and blame the women themselves for the problem.
He posted in 2013, “If you could release a virus that would kill every single man on Earth, except for yourself because you would have the antidote, would you do it? You will be the only man left, with all the females. You would be able to have your pick of any beautiful woman you want, as well as having dealt vengeance on the men who took them from you. Imagine how satisfying that would be.”
Rodger's actions have been lauded on the site by other members who have called him a “hero.”
Brown said the shootings occurred at several sites in the town, resulting in nine crime scenes.
Santa Barbara County sheriff's spokeswoman Kelly Hoover told KEYT-TV the gunfire broke out [gunfire doesn’t “break out”; it should have read, “Rodger started shooting…”] around 9:30 p.m. Friday in the Isla Vista neighborhood.
A student told the station he saw shots fired from a BMW, fatally striking one woman and critically injuring another woman.
“I heard shots, scream, pain,” Michael Vitak said. “All emotions. I hope she is going to be fine.”
The station said a black BMW slammed into as many as two cars.
The shooting prompted officials to issue alerts urging people to stay indoors.
Isla Vista is known for parties, including an annual spring bash that turned into a violent blowout last month as young people clashed with police and tossed rocks and bottles. A university police officer and four deputies were injured and 130 people were arrested.
Damn, Lucifer. You are 4 real
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