By M. Alex Johnson
Elliot Rodger, the man suspected of having gone on a killing rampage Friday night near the University of California, Santa Barbara, may have done so out of intense frustration at his rejection by women, which he detailed in shocking online videos.
Alan Schifman, an attorney for Rodger's father, Peter Rodger, confirmed to NBC News on Saturday that Rodger was the man suspected of having killed six people and wounded seven others Friday night as he stalked the streets of Isla Vista, firing seemingly at random.
Isla Vista shooting suspect Elliot Rodgers in a video posted Thursday to YouTube.
Schifman said it was Rodger's own parents who alerted police to the distressing videos their son posted to YouTube — videos in which Rodger, a student at nearby Santa Barbara City College, complains that his college years have been torture because he could never get a date.
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In the videos, nine of which were posted Thursday, he vows "retribution" and "revenge against humanity" — specifically against the residents of a sorority house, all of whom he threatens to kill.
Rodger says in one of the videos that he's still a virgin at 22 because women prefer "brutish" mean to gentler souls like himself.
"If I can't have you girls, I will destroy you," he says. Afterward, he vows, he will then "take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see there."
"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," he complains.
"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.
"If I can't have you girls, I will destroy you."
Rodger died following the shooting spree, but the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office doesn't know whether he died in a shootout with officers or from a self-inflicted wound.
A semiautomatic handgun was recovered in Rodger's vehicle, investigators said.
"It's obviously the work of a madman," Santa Barbara Sheriff Bill Brown said at a news conference early Saturday. "There's going to be a lot more information that will come out that will give a clearer picture of just how disturbed this individual was."
Sossy Dombourian of NBC News contributed to this report.
First published May 24 2014, 12:09 PM
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