Santa Barabara Shooting Update: Who Is Elliott Rodger? Social Media, YouTube & Facebook Profiles Reveal Details [Video]
He said he was tired of being rejected. He said he was tired of being ignored. Now, suspected Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger is getting the attention he said he always deserved.
Authorities have identified Rodger, 22, as the suspect in Friday night's deadly shooting rampage in the town of Isla Vista, near the campus of University of California at Santa Barbara. According to reports, Rodger stabbed three men to death at his residence before getting in his car and going on to shoot and kill two other women outside of a sorority and one man at a deli. Rodger also shot at or rammed into several other victims with his BMW, injuring 13 people. At the end of the night, seven people -- six victims and the gunman -- were dead.
A chilling and ominous Youtube video titled "Retribution" was posted by Rodger shortly before the tragedy. In the video, Rodger talks about his frustrations with being continuously rejected by women.
"This world is so twisted. It's so cruel," Rodger says, filming from the driver's seat of a car. "And you girls make it cruel. And you girls have starved me of sex, and enjoyment and pleasure for my entire youth. You've taken eight years away from my life. Eight years I will never get back. Do you know how much misery you've caused me?"
Rodger, who labels himself "beautiful, civilized, sophisticated and intelligent," expressed his confusion at not having any success dating. "Whenever I drive through this college town called Isla Vista, which is just right next to UCSB, I see so many hot beautiful blond girls walking with absolute, stupid obnoxious-looking [men]. And I can't help but think how wrong that is. Those beautiful blond girls should be walking with me, not those brutes."
"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 said. "Yes, after I have annihilated every single girl in the sorority house, I'll take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see there."
According to the LA times, Rodger was born in the United Kingdom and was also the son of Peter Rodger, assistant director of "The Hunger Games." Elliot Rodger bragged about his travels to other countries and his attendence at red carpet events on his social media sites.
"The Rodger family offers our deepest compassion and sympathies to the families involved in this terrible tragedy," the Rodger family said in a statement. "We are experiencing the most inconceivable pain, and our hearts go out to everyone involved."