Eliott Rodger in his chilling YouTube video in which he describes his killing spree plan[YOUTUBE]Film director’s son Elliot Rodger, 22, stabbed three male students to death in his flat before embarking on a shooting spree, which cost the lives of two female students and a man in a local delicatessen.
It ended only when Rodger was cornered by police and killed himself with a single shot to the head.
Police found a print-out of the manifesto in the student’s apartment in the Santa Barbara suburb of Isla Vista, 95 miles north of Los Angeles.
Across 141 pages bearing the headline My Twisted World, it sets out the obsession with women of virgin Rodger and his crazed belief that they must die for rejecting him throughout his life and his intention of killing “50 or more” people.
Detectives believe Rodger may have murdered his first three victims, one of them his roommate, in his apartment in a series of frenzied knife attacks as long as 24 hours before he began his drive-by shootings.
He had warned in the manifesto: “On the day before the Day of Retribution, I will start the First Phase of my vengeance, silently killing as many people as I can.”
In a later video, he then threatened: “I will take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see there.”
Thousands of people at a vigil at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [AP]You forced me to suffer all my life and now I’ll make you all suffer
Police say “without doubt” Rodger would have continued his gun rampage had he not been trapped.
The loner still had 410 bullets in 41 loaded 10-round magazines in his black BMW. Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said he was carrying two Sig Sauer P226 pistols and one Glock 34 pistol.
Rodger also left videos on YouTube. In the last of them, filmed the day before the gun killings, he is seen sitting in his car and launching a tirade against women.
“You forced me to suffer all my life and now I’ll make you all suffer,” he says.
“I’ve waited a long time for this. I will give you exactly what you deserve. All of you. All you girls who rejected me.
“I’m 22 years old, and I’m still a virgin. I’ve never even kissed a girl. I’ve had to rot in loneliness. It’s not fair. If I can’t have you girls, I will destroy you.”
TRAGIC: Ambulances arrive on scene after the killing rampage [AP]The killer was the son of Peter Rodger, 49, assistant director of the hit movie The Hunger Games, who said last night he was “shattered” by his son’s rampage, which had left him in “inconceivable pain”.
Rodger appeared to have an enviable lifestyle – successful and loving parents, a luxurious family home and the chance to mix with Hollywood A-list celebrities.
However, by the time his father had taken the family from Britain to California when he was just five, Rodger had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism.
From her home in Kent, his 89-year-old grandmother Lois Rodger said: “He was a very disturbed boy.”
Rodger had permits for all his three weapons despite his Asperger’s, re-igniting the debate over lax gun controls in the US.
FATAL: Bodies are covered next to a bicycle of those killed in the shootings [AP]
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