LOS ANGELES (AP) – A troubled 22-year-old man who killed six University of California, Santa Barbara students last May searched online for ways to silently kill with a knife just before repeatedly stabbing his first three victims, one of them 94 times, according to a police report released Thursday.
Stab and slash marks on a sheet and several pillows suggest Elliot Rodger rehearsed the killings and then embarked on a rampage through the community of Isla Vista, firing dozens of rounds from a semi-automatic handgun and plowing into pedestrians with his BMW. There were two shootouts with police and 14 people were injured before Rodger took his life with a single gunshot as officers closed in.
In a final handwritten journal entry on May 23, the day of the carnage, he wrote: “This is it. In one hour I will have my revenge on this cruel world. I HATE YOU ALLLL! DIE.” The screen of his laptop was open to a chilling YouTube video he’d just uploaded, entitled “Day of Retribution.”
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department report provided new details on how Rodger, the son of a Hollywood director, killed his two roommates and their friend, gunned down two women outside a sorority and shot a man standing in a deli.
Rodger used two long fixed-blade knives, including a nearly 9-inch boar hunting knife, to kill James Hong and Weihan “David” Wang, both 20, in the apartment he shared with them. A friend, George Chen, 19, who showed up later was stabbed 94 times.