Chilling crime scene photos show the aftermath of a college student’s violent rampage that left six innocent people dead.
Elliot Rodger, 22, was determined to kill as many women as possible in a stabbing and shooting spree in Isla Vista, California, sparked by years of romantic rejection.
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Cheng Yuan Hong, Weihan Wang, George Chen, Katherine Cooper, Veronika Weiss and Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez were killed and 14 others injured in the horrific 2014 attack, before Rodger turned the gun on himself.
Days earlier, Rodger posted a 137-page manifesto online, where the virgin revealed his hatred for women for refusing to accept him.
The incel described women as a “plague” and shared his plan for a “day of retribution” where he planned to torture and kill his roommates, his family and the girls who ignored him as punishment for his rejection.
“It would be a day when I would exact my ultimate retribution and revenge on all the hedonistic scum who have enjoyed a life of pleasure they do not deserve,” Rodger said of his plan for the attacks.
“If I cannot have it, I will destroy it. I will destroy all women because I can never have them.”
BEDROOM NIGHTMARE
On May 23, 2014, Rodger launched the attack at his apartment in the coastal city near the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was a student.
First, he stabbed to death his two 20-year-old roommates, Hong and Wang, and took their bodies to a bedroom, covering them with towels and blankets.
He then ambushed his roommate’s friend, Chen, 19, who had just arrived at the apartment.
Rodger stabbed him 94 times before leaving his body in the apartment’s bathroom in a pool of blood.
From then on, the killer took a shower and took a break from killing. He went to a local Starbucks and texted his mother to say he would call her later.
Rodger then returned to his apartment, where he posted a chilling seven-minute video on YouTube.
In the video, he spoke about his frustration over the fact that he was still a virgin and described himself as a “supreme gentleman”.
He said he would “punish” the women who rejected him – and then emailed his manifesto to 34 people, including his filmmaker father, Hunger Games director Peter Rodger, and his mother, Li Chin.
Rodger then arrived at the Alpha Phi sorority house, where he knocked on the door for a few minutes with no response.
Timeline of the shooting spree
After Elliot Rodger killed three people, including his two roommates, in his apartment at an unknown exact time on May 23, 2014, he went on a shooting rampage that began outside a sorority house.
7:38 p.m. – Rodger went to Starbucks after stabbing Cheng Yuan Hong, Weihan Wang and George Chen to death.
9:27 p.m. – The first 911 call was made after gunshots were heard near the Alpha Phi sorority house. Katherine Cooper and Veronika Weiss were shot to death.
9:30 p.m. – Police obtained a description of Rodger’s vehicle as he continued shooting at various locations. Christopher Michaels-Martinez was shot and killed in a deli. Rodger got out of the car and fired several shots at people on the sidewalk.
9:33 p.m. – Rodger and the police officers started shooting at each other.
9:37 p.m. – Rodger’s car crashed into a parked vehicle. Police found Rodger dead in his car from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
He returned to his car, where he began driving around and shooting at people, including three members of the Delta Delta Delta fraternity who were walking near the house.
He shot and killed Weiss, 19, and Cooper, 22, and left his 20-year-old friend with multiple gunshot wounds.
Rodger then went to a nearby deli, where he fatally shot Michaels-Martinez, 20, in the chest.
Michaels-Martinez stumbled inside the deli but fell to the floor, where he died from his injuries despite CPR attempts by several witnesses.
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Chilling photos from the scene show towels used to mop up Michaels-Martinez’s blood in the deli.
Rodger started firing shots on the sidewalk, injuring eight people. He then struck four victims with his black BMW.
After a police shooting in which he was shot in the hip, Rodger died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Crime scene photos show Rodger’s car with a broken windshield and deployed airbags.
Around the 10-year anniversary of the massacre earlier this year, the father of one of the shooting victims shared that the killings continued to terrorize his family.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, please call or text 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.orgor text Crisis Text Line at 741741.
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