Son of Hunger Games Assistant Director kills 7 in rampage

[Syt]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27562917

US police confirm drive-by killer is Elliot Rodger

US police have confirmed that a man who killed six people in a rampage in California was 22-year-old Elliot Rodger.

The student was the son of Hollywood filmmaker Peter Rodger, who was assistant director on The Hunger Games.

At a press conference, police said Elliot Rodger had stabbed three male room-mates to death at his apartment.

He later went on a rampage through Isla Vista in a black BMW, shooting at people at random.

After exchanging gunfire with police, Rodger was found dead inside his crashed vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head, police said.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said Rodger apparently killed himself during a shoot-out with police officers.

At a press conference, he called it a "chaotic, rapidly unfolding convoluted incident" that involved multiple crime scenes.

Investigators are analysing a YouTube video in which a young man who identifies himself as Elliot Rodger sits in a car and says he is going to take his revenge against humanity.

Sheriff Brown said that after leaving his apartment, Rodger had gone to a sorority house, which houses female students, and hammered loudly on the door.

They didn't open the door but Rodger had then shot three women in the street, killing two of them, Sheriff Brown said.

Rodger then drove his car through the beachside community - which is near the University of California-Santa Barbara campus - targeting people at random, and the sixth victim was shot dead in a delicatessen.

Seven other people were wounded.

Sheriff Brown said it was "very apparent" that the gunman was "severely mentally disturbed", adding: "It's obviously the work of a madman."

He said authorities had recovered three semi-automatic handguns after Friday's shooting.

All the weapons were bought legally and were registered to Rodger, he said.

Earlier, Peter Rodger's lawyer, Alan Shifman, said that the "family believes the child was the perpetrator".

He said Mr Rodger's son had Asperger's syndrome, had trouble making friends and had been receiving professional help.

Mr Shifman added that the family had contacted police about "recent posts on YouTube" by Elliot "regarding suicide and the killing of people".

The family is "devastated" and co-operating with police, he said.

"We offer our deepest, compassionate sympathy to the families involved in this terrible tragedy," Mr Shifman told reporters outside the family home in Los Angeles,

Ricardo Martinez, whose 20-year-old son Christopher was one of the victims, spoke of his grief.

"When will this insanity stop? Too many have died. We should say to ourselves 'Not one more'," he said.

The University of California-Santa Barbara said it was "shocked and saddened'' by the shootings and confirmed that several of its students had been taken to hospital.

[jimmy olsen]

His "manifesto"

http://www.scribd.com/doc/225936731/Untitled

[Monoriu]

The guy is quite handsome. 

[The Brain]

The guy is quite handsome.

Unlikely.

dead inside his crashed vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head

[MadImmortalMan]

Lack of sex. Big surprise.

[Siege]

Lack of sex. Big surprise.

Like muslims.

[Josephus]

Virgins and muslims. The two most dangerous groups.

[mongers]

Unbalanced man in country with insane gun laws kills; how is it even news anymore?

[CountDeMoney]

Speeding on, Rodger accelerated and hit another cyclist, who was thrown onto the hood with a force that crumpled the windshield.

Not that there are any positives that come out of this sort of thing, but...

[HVC]

Unbalanced man in country with insane gun laws kills; how is it even news anymore?

If it wasn't a gun it'd be a bomb or something. You can blame somethings on lax gun laws, but a crazy person who wants to kills will kill

[The Brain]

Unbalanced man in country with insane gun laws kills; how is it even news anymore?

If it wasn't a gun it'd be a bomb or something. You can blame somethings on lax gun laws, but a crazy person who wants to kills will kill

A country that gives gun licenses to virgins isn't exactly bright.

[Ideologue]

Kid was a weird conflation of spree killer and sex murderer.  I've read a few excerpts from his manifesto (or whatever) and he comes off worse than John Doe.  (He was oddly fixated on "blondes."  If you counted the number of times he says "blonde" ____ it would surely come in at over a thousand for the 141 page tome.)

Basically he had a head full of bad wiring.  He developed a persecution complex due to the fact that women didn't pick up on his telepathic waves and fuck him all the time.  He was apparently a regular on an involuntarily celibate forum, a den of projected self-loathing, as you might expect.  True: men who don't get laid unfortunately have a propensity for going nutty, and becoming seriously damaged, unpleasant individuals; but while they tend to evince delusional thinking, usually as a defense mechanism, this kid's prose indicated, to my layman's reading, legitimate preexistent insanity.

I read leftist sites from time to time (surprise) and the reaction is... kind of gross, honestly.  Highly ideological (guns!) and extremely misandrist (spreekillers are always men!) without recognizing it as such.  This particular case strikes me as only incidentally gun-related--indeed, he actually stabbed three victims to death--and misogyny is only an indirect consequence.  Though the conversation is bound to involve social ills (easy access to firearms, the dangers inherent to elevating normative masculinity as the only possible metric of success for men, and maybe even disproportionate distribution of sexual activity) I don't think any social ill is at the core.

[The Brain]

At least this was an economic crime.

[Razgovory]

Sounds like he never got past 15.  Fucker's still Holden Caulfield at 22.  The kids got a BMW, he really has to try to not get laid.

[Legbiter]

I read leftist sites from time to time (surprise) and the reaction is... kind of gross, honestly.  Highly ideological (guns!) and extremely misandrist (spreekillers are always men!) without recognizing it as such.  This particular case strikes me as only incidentally gun-related--indeed, he actually stabbed three victims to death--and misogyny is only an indirect consequence.  Though the conversation is bound to involve social ills (easy access to firearms, the dangers inherent to elevating normative masculinity as the only possible metric of success for men, and maybe even disproportionate distribution of sexual activity) I don't think any social ill is at the core.

He's eerily like a Houellebecq character. Slightly more narcissistic and sociopathic, for sure, but pretty much spot on.

By the time he posted this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBvaVWdJRQM he's pretty much a goner. Look at his creepy body language, Master Villain ramblings and general social ineptness, he'd give any chick goosebumps in a bad way.