He also emailed a lengthy autobiographical manuscript to acquaintances, his therapist, and family members the document appeared on the Internet and became widely known as his manifesto. He explained that he wanted to punish women for rejecting him, and sexually active men because he envied them. After his car crashed into a parked vehicle, he was found dead inside with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.īefore driving to the sorority house, Rodger uploaded a video to YouTube titled "Elliot Rodger's Retribution", in which he outlined his planned attack and his motives. He exchanged gunfire with police twice, and was injured in the hip. He then began to drive through Isla Vista, shooting and wounding several pedestrians from his car and striking several others with his car. He next drove past a nearby deli and shot to death a male student inside. About three hours later he drove to a sorority house, and after failing to get inside shot three women outside, two of whom died. Rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment, apparently one by one on their arrival. Killed six people and injured fourteen others – by gunshot, stabbing and vehicle ramming – near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and then killed himself. On the evening of May 23, 22-year old Elliot Rodger
The 2014 Isla Vista killings were a series of deadly misogynistic terror attacks in Isla Vista, California. Revenge for perceived sexual and social rejection, misogyny (exacerbated by mental illness)
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