5-23-14 Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, CA Elliot Rodger, 22 Car Rampage 7 dead, 7 wounded
killed
Cheng Yuan Hong, 20
George Chen, 19
Weihan Wang, 20
Katherine Breann Cooper, 22
Veronika Weiss, 19
Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, 20
13 wounded
8 by gunfire
4 via car
1 other
http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/05/24/san ... sb-campus/Gunfire erupted shortly before 9:30 p.m. in Isla Vista, Calif., an area near the UC Santa Barbara Campus and about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. A shooter fired dozens of shots while driving and walking through the area, leaving behind “a very chaotic series” of nine crime scenes spread across Isla Vista, (Sheriff)Brown said. ... about 10 minutes passed between the time the first call came to 911 and the moment the shooter was found dead.
The suspect Elliot Rodger began his rampage by stabbing two roommates and a visitor to death in his apartment.
This latest shooting has all the hallmarks of being another manipulated shooting event:
TWO GUNMEN
http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/05/24/san ... sb-campus/Multiple witnesses say that they saw two people inside of the suspect’s BMW. However, (Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown) would neither confirm nor deny whether there was a passenger in the car with the shooter.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post ... a-barbara/Though local media outlets said witnesses reported seeing a passenger in the car, authorities are not looking for any other suspects and believe that this shooter acted alone
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/ar ... 9294309402Two suspects in a black BMW reportedly opened fire indiscriminately throughout Isla Vista on Friday night in a rampage that left at least three dead before their car crashed on Del Playa Drive...
http://www.keyt.com/news/shooting-in-is ... a/26152454Michael Vitak, a student from the Czech Republic, told (NewsChanne 3 reporter Victoria )Sanchez what he witnessed.
"Guys in a BMW. Maybe they were trying to prove they're tough"
--One woman identified as Sierra told Sanchez she was approached by two men in a black BMW. The driver flashed a small black handgun and asked '"Hey, what's up?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdW9gYoYzB0One woman identified as Sierra told Sanchez she was approached by two men in a black BMW. The driver flashed a small black handgun and asked '"Hey, what's up?"'
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... tml#page=1Kevin de Bree... he saw a black BMW pull up to the 7-Eleven. It looked like someone was leaning out of the car, and there was such chaos that De Bree at first thought there must’ve been two people in the BMW.
NBC Los Angeles
Alexander Mattera, 23, added: "We heard so many gunshots, it was unbelievable. I thought they were firecrackers. There had to have been at least like two guns. There were a lot of shots."
http://www.independent.com/news/2014/ma ... sla-vista/One of the suspects was also reportedly killed, and another is in custody.
--The third crime scene visited by Hayden was the 7-11 in the new Isla Vista Icon development. Two men in handcuffs were being questioned there in full view of a small crowd. That crowd cheered when one of them was put inside the law enforcement vehicle around 11:25 p.m. Officials said the men had refused orders to stay out of the crime scene areas.
Anecdotal yet unconfirmed reports from the Isla Vista streets suggest that the vehicle involved was a black BMW with a passenger shooting a handgun.
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FEDS
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/24/justice/c ... ?hpt=hp_t1U.S. law enforcement officials said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and FBI were assisting local police in the investigation....
http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=134751The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office is being assisted by... criminalists from the Department of Justice crime lab.
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FOREKNOWLEDGE?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post ... a-barbara/--Police already had a beefed up law-enforcement presence in Isla Vista on Friday night, Brown said. The area is known for its partying.... As a result, there were more officers in Isla Vista than there would have been on another night of the week, he said.
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THE SHRINKS
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... ed-3603730Yesterday his dad’s attorney, Alan Schifman, said Rodger had been seeing “multiple therapists”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... house.htmlMr Astaire said he'd been seeing therapists on and off since he was 8 years old and during high school met with one 'pretty much every day.'
http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2014/ ... in-hiding/It seemed that Elliot suffered from extreme paranoia and heard voices, but it was impossible to properly diagnose because he just wouldn’t talk.
Rodger was living in an ordinary apartment building, but other reports had him living in a group home, indicative of some kind of official diagnosis:
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/05/ ... shootings/Rodger was living with roommates at the Independent Living Institute in Santa Barbara, a facility that offers “living skills instruction to help adults with disabilities to live more independently in their communities,” according to the website.
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IN GAME
http://livingwiththenoondaydemon.wordpr ... ot-rodger/Around this time(when the suspect was 16 or 17), Elliot becomes obsessed with the game World of Warcraft.
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AUTOMATIC?
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... tml#page=1...At first, the gunshots sounded like they were coming from a handgun – there were a lot of “loud bangs,” De Bree said. “But later, I distinctly remembering thinking ‘that was definitely an automatic weapon.‘ I heard like 20 shots in a row.”
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THE LOOK?
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/0 ... a-rampage/(Witness Dylan Fontillas) didn’t know any of the victims, or the shooter, but said the look on Rodger’s face is something he won’t forget.
“He was almost smiling, like he was happy about what was going on. It was very chilling. I’ll remember that face for a long time,” Fontillas told KPIX 5.
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THE AFTERMATH
http://www.smh.com.au/world/elliot-rodg ... zrnux.html[/url]
US Senator Richard Blumenthal said on Sunday he wanted to revive the gun control legislation that was rejected by Congress in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut, saying it could have helped prevent the weekend's tragedy.
Mr Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, told CBS's Face the Nation program the legislation, which failed last year, could be revised to emphasis the mental condition of potential gun buyers.