Authorities said he put that bitterness into action in a stabbing and shooting rampage Friday night across the seaside California college town of Isla Vista that killed two young women and four men, at least half of them students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Thirteen people were injured.
Rodger then apparently shot and killed himself inside the black BMW he used in the violence, authorities said yesterday.
"I'll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you," Rodger, the son of a Hollywood director who worked on "The Hunger Games," says in the video posted Friday and taken down by YouTube yesterday with a message saying it violated the site's terms of service.
"I don't know why you girls are so repulsed by me," he says in the video. "I am polite. I am the ultimate gentleman. And yet, you girls never give me a chance. I don't know why."
Sheriff Bill Brown, appearing on CNN today said that investigators are tying up a few ends, but "for the most part, I think, we have a pretty clear picture of what happened"
The first three killed Friday were male stabbing victims in Rodger's own apartment whose names have not been released, Brown said yesterday.
Then, at about 9:30 pm, the citywide shooting and vehicle-ramming rampage began.
"I know exactly where their house is and I've sat outside it in my car to stalk them many times," Rodger wrote in his extensive manifesto titled "My Twisted World."
No one answered the door after one to two minutes of aggressive pounding, but he soon shot three women who were standing nearby, killing two of them, 19-year-old Veronika Weiss and 22-year-old Katherine Cooper.
