Elliot Rodger, who was he? A shy 22-year old that attended the University of California in Isla Vista, a normal looking guy, that seemed to have it all, especially coming from a father of the film industry. Maybe he wasn't a normal guy but yet a depressed young man who has had a rough life trying to adjust to traveling so much, and not being able to fit in. A turn of events had caused an uproar by Rodger at the University of California. Elliot Rodger a rampage killer, killing 6 people and wounding 4, the big question is why did he do it? There could have been many reasons but Elliot Rodger tells the reason himself in a video that he post before his killing spree. On May 23rd, 2014 everything changed at the University of California, a 22-year old guy named Elliot Rodger deteriorated that day. He killed 6 people and wounding 14, his goal was to kill everyone that had hurt him, especially those that were women. Elliot killed his roommates, Weihan Wang age 20, Cheng Hong age 20, and friend George Chen age 19. He killed his roommates by stabbing them multiple times. Then Elliot went to the streets killing 3 more people with a gun, Katherine Cooper age 22, Christopher Michaels-Martinez, age 20 and Veronika Weiss age 19. He wounded 14 other campus …show more content…
It was titled My Twisted World, which gave insight of the killer himself and what was going through his mind. Elliot had created videos and had posts of what he “goes through” and during the videos he created there were plans for the day of retribution as explained in his manifesto. The last video Elliot did, was the day he went on his rampage. Before the video was taken Elliot killed his two roommates and their friend. During the video all emotions poured high, due to the fact his day of retribution was upon him and he just killed some