California shooting: Police review video of student Elliot Rodger threatening 'revenge' after six people are shot dead

In the film Elliot Rodger says he will "slaughter" young women after suffering years of 'loneliness, rejection and unfulfilled desires'

Police investigating a mass shooting in California are focusing on a video in which a man threatens to "slaughter" young women in revenge for spurning his advances.

Seven people died including the gunman after a series of drive-by shootings in the town of Isla Vista, near the University of California's campus, late of Friday night.

The gunman has not been named, but it is believed detectives are looking at a video uploaded online by a man who identifies himself as 22-year-old Elliot Rodger, called "Elliot Rodger's Retribution". He is reported to be the son of Peter Rodger, an assistant director on The Hungers Games films.

In the seven-minute video, uploaded yesterday, he speaks to the camera in a car and says that he will have his "retribution against humanity" after suffering years of "loneliness, rejection and unfulfilled desires, all because girls have never been attracted to me".

He goes on to say that at 22 he is still a virgin, has "never even kissed a girl", and cannot understand why women go for other "obnoxious men".

He then threatens to go into a sorority house at the University of California, and "slaughter" women.



Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown described Friday night's killings as a premeditated atrocity, adding: "This incident appears to be a mass murder situation."

Witnesses report seeing a black BMW speeding through the streets spraying bullets at people and other targets in the beachside community which is home to many college students.

Xavier Mozejewsky told local TV station KEYT-TV the scene was like an "old western shoot-out". While College student Brad Martin told a University of California at Santa Barbara student newspaper that his girlfriend was "absolutely hysterical" after being approached by the gunman with a weapon she initially was not sure was real.

He said: "She said the next second he raised it up to her face...and she turned around and started running. That’s when she heard ’bang, bang, bang’ right behind her as she was running."

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Sheriff Bill Brown said officers had exchanged fire with the gunman twice before his vehicle crashed and he was found dead inside with a gunshot wound to the head.

Authorities recovered a semiautomatic handgun from the vehicle, but the sheriff could not say if the gunman was killed by deputies in the exchange of fire or by a self inflicted wound.

The sheriff said they had "obtained and are currently analyzing both written and videotaped evidence that suggests this atrocity was a premeditated mass murder", and said the tragedy was "obviously the work of a madman".

He did not identify the gunman, or say if he was a student.


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