California gunman wanted women starved

Santa Barbara: A student who stabbed three people to death and then fatally shot three more in a bustling California college town on Saturday was the mentally disturbed son of a Hollywood director, police said.

At least 13 people were injured and the shooter, named by police as Elliot Rodger, 22, apparently killed himself after the knife-and-gun rampage on Friday in Isla Vista, near the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara.

Rodger’s father is Peter Rodger, an assistant director of the 2012 Hollywood blockbuster The Hunger Games.

Police is investigating a disturbing video entitled “Retribution” apparently posted on YouTube by Elliot Rodger in which a man sitting in a car rants about women who rejected and ignored him for the past eight years, vowing to “punish you all for it.”

Police had “contacts” with Rodger on three separate occasions before Friday's killings, the first time in July 2013, Santa Barbara County sheriff Bill Brown said.

Elliot Rodger vowed in his video to exact his bloody vengeance against the sorority women who rejected him and the men who succeeded where he so often failed. A 141-page manifesto authored by alleged Rodger has also surfaced on the Internet.

“The ultimate evil behind sexuality is the human female.” He added that they “think like beasts” and “should not have the right to choose who to mate and breed with,” Rodger wrote in the manifesto. He wrote that  the ideal world, sexuality would not exist and in such a world, he would be the Earth’s “divine ruler,” where he would quarantine all women in concentration camps and then starve them to death.

Mr Brown said that authorities had received a tip on April 30 concerning Rodger.

A local mental health department official requested law enforcement carry out a welfare check on Rodger following the tip-off, and sheriff’s deputies visited the troubled man.

“They found him to be rather shy and timid, polite, well-spoken. He explained to deputies that it was a misunderstanding. He was able to convince them that he was not at that point a danger to himself or anyone else.” Mr Brown said.