The plot may have
been years in the making, but the killer gave just minutes' notice before he
rained terror across a Southern California
community.
Now, shattered glass
and flowers mark the path of horror created by a young man bent on getting his
revenge for perceived slights and chronic problems with women.
Six victims and the
assailant are dead, and 13 people were wounded, authorities said. Three of the
wounded are still being treated at at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, spokeswoman
Maria Zate told CNN on Monday. Two are in good condition and one is in fair
condition.
In the three days
since the rampage, a slew of new information has emerged about the victims, the
suspect and what led up to the stabbings and shootings.
Here's what we know:
The rampage started with his roommates
Authorities now know
Elliot Rodger's killing spree across Isla Vista
began before he even left home.
The
22-year-old former Santa Barbara
City College
Chen and Hong were
the attacker's roommates.
A friend of Rodger's
family said Rodger recently had a feud with his roommates, complaining to his
landlord that his roommates were too noisy and played lots of video games.
The assailant
himself outlined his plan to kill two roommates in a 137-page manifesto he left
behind.
"I'd even enjoy
stabbing them both to death while they slept," Rodger wrote.
The assailant
had been seeing therapists
Rodger's
history of mental health issues was no secret to his family, and the young man
was seeing at least two therapists prior to his death.
He had been
seeing therapists on and off since he was 8, family friend Simon Astaire said.
When he went to high school in Van
Nuys , California
Rodger's
family contacted police after discovering social media posts about suicide and
killing people, family spokesman and attorney Alan Shifman told reporters
Saturday.
Six policemen
showed up at Rodger's home in Isla Vista on
April 30, but they found nothing alarming. So they told Rodger to call his
mother and they reassured her that he was OK, according to Astaire.
Santa Barbara
County Sheriff Bill Brown told reporters Saturday that at the time, deputies
"determined he did not meet the criteria for an involuntary hold."
Brown said
Rodger told deputies it was a misunderstanding and that he was not going to
hurt anyone or himself. Rodger said he was having troubles with his social
life.
But long
before that, Rodger was plotting his deadly "Day of Retribution."
"I had
the striking and devastating fear that someone had somehow discovered what I
was planning to do, and reported me for it," Rodger wrote about the police
visit, toward the end of his manifesto. "If that was the case, the police
would have searched my room, found all of my guns and weapons, along with my
writings about what I plan to do with them.
"I would have been thrown in jail, denied of the chance to
exact revenge on my enemies. I can't imagine a hell darker than that."
From: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/26/justice/california-killing-spree/ (CNN)
When: 2014/5/24
What: Rodger killed six people
Who: Elliot Rodger
Where: University of California, Santa Barbara
Why: because of his Antisocial Personality Disorder
How: by gun and knife
feud: 仇恨
manifesto: 宣言
Retribution: 報應
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