Isla Vista rampage

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The Isla Vista rampage occurred on May 23, 2014 in Isla Vista , near the University of California, Santa Barbara , California campus . Elliot Rodger , 22, killed six people and injured thirteen other people before killing himself with a shot in the head.

Sequence of events

preparation

In September 2012, Rodger said he visited a shooting range in Oxnard , California to practice shooting.

In November or December 2012, he bought his first handgun , a Glock 34 , from a local gun store in Goleta . In his manifesto he wrote that he had chosen the Glock 34 because, according to his research, it was an “efficient and very precise weapon”. To buy the pistol, he used $ 700 of the money that family members had given him for his university courses.

In the spring of 2013, Rodger bought a second gun in Oxnard, a SIG Sauer P226 , for $ 1,100. This is of much higher quality than the Glock, he wrote, and much more efficient. During the year he acquired a third gun in Burbank and 400 cartridges. He doesn't care about the cost because he had over $ 5,000 in his bank account for his "reckoning day".

course

On the morning of May 23, 2014, Rodger killed three University of California, Santa Barbara students in his apartment on Seville Road, Isla Vista. The three men were stabbed several times , according to the county sheriff . Police found a knife and two machetes as well as a hammer at the scene , but did not disclose which weapon Rodger had used. Two of the three students were his roommates and the third victim was a visitor who had stayed in the apartment.

Rodger then drove to the Alpha Phi fraternity home near the University of California Santa Barbara campus. When the women did not respond to his minute-long knock on the door, he shot female students from the Delta Delta Delta connection on the sidewalk near the connection house. Two women were killed and one was injured. Afterwards, the perpetrator also wounded a man and a woman on the street.

Rodger then drove two blocks to the deli Isla Vista Deli Mart in his car , where he shot and killed another student. In order to be closer to the sidewalk, the perpetrator stayed in the left lane and fired from the car at two pedestrians, injuring both of them. He rammed his car into a cyclist and fired more shots at pedestrians. Four police officers arrived on site, three of whom exchanged fire with the perpetrator. Rodger was hit in the hip. As he drove away, he rammed a second cyclist and then collided with several parked cars. He killed himself in the car with a shot in the head.

backgrounds

Perpetrator

Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger (* July 24, 1991 - May 23, 2014) was born in London to the British filmmaker Peter Rodger and the Malaysian film assistant Li-Chin Rodger. He is the grandson of the photographer George Rodger . The family moved to the United States at the age of five and Elliot Rodger grew up in Los Angeles. He had a younger sister and a younger half-brother.

When Rodger was seven years old, his parents separated. At the same time he was examined psychologically several times. One suspected with Rodger u. a. autism for his inability to make friends, his fear of crowds, his aversion to loud noises, and his stereotypical behaviors ; Circulating claims that he was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome are false. Since the age of eight he was in psychiatric treatment and took psychotropic drugs to him (later, at the age of 18 years, however, he refused further treatment). Rodger suffered from an inferiority complex because of his maternal East Asian descent and, as a child, colored his hair blonde for a while because he wanted to look like a white boy. He attended a boys Catholic school and two other high schools in the Los Angeles area. The repeated school changes were, according to him, due to bullying . In 2007 he was diagnosed with a profound developmental disorder. He graduated from high school in 2010 and moved to Isla Vista the following year to attend Santa Barbara City College . According to his manifesto, he dropped out of all his courses in February 2012. Rodger's only friend tried to involve him in the ventures of his clique, but the latter had shown no interest in it.

Even before the rampage, there were indications of Rodger's willingness to use violence. According to his own account, he tried to push students off a ledge at a college party while he was drunk. The reason for this was his frustration that they ignored him, whereupon he insulted them and then they insulted him too. In the process, however, he was pushed off himself and broke his left ankle. He then left the party, finding that he had lost his sunglasses and because of his alcohol level he accidentally went to another party to get it back and was beaten up there. According to him, the events of that night were the trigger for making the final decision to commit a killing spree. In May 2014, his mother contacted his former therapist after watching Rodgers YouTube videos. The therapist reported the incident to Santa Barbara's mental health hotline and police officers were dispatched to Rodger. Rodger admitted to the officers that he had difficulties interacting with his peers and fellow students, but the officers saw no reason for a forced assignment given his calm demeanor and his empty criminal record .

In a 2018 article, the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Rodger as a member of the Alt-Right . This categorization is justified with his misogyny and his aversion to interracial couples.

Manifesto and videos

Rodger wrote a 141-page "Manifesto" entitled My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger (Eng .: "My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger"). He sent this to several people in the run-up to the rampage, including his therapist, his parents and his former school teachers and friends.

In it he described his plan, which he divided into three phases. "The day before the day of retribution, I will begin the first phase of my revenge: silently kill as many people as possible in the Isla Vista area by luring them into my apartment under some pretext." The second phase posed Rodger as a “war against women” as revenge for women withholding sex from him: “The second phase will take place on the day of retribution, shortly before the climax. ... My war against women. ... I will punish all women for depriving me of sex ... I cannot kill every single woman in the world, but ... I will attack the girls who represent everything that I am about women hasse: UCSB's hottest sisterhood. ” In the third phase, which he described as the“ ultimate showdown on the streets of Isla Vista ”, he wanted to drive around town and hit as many people as possible.

In his manifesto, he also stated that in his perfect world he would quarantine all women in concentration camps . “In these camps, the vast majority of the female population will be consciously starved to death. That would be an efficient and appropriate way to kill them all ... I would have a huge tower built just for myself ... and watch them all die with relish. "

Rodger also created several YouTube videos, in the last video before the rampage he complained about his rejection by women and gave details of his planned attack and his motivation.

Tomorrow is the day of vengeance, the day when I will take revenge on humanity, on all of you. For the last eight years of my life since I hit puberty, I have endured an existence of loneliness, rejection, and unfulfilled desires because girls were never emotionally drawn to me. Girls gave their affection, love, and sex to other men, but never to me. I am 22 years old and I am still a virgin. I haven't even kissed a girl yet. I've got two and a half years of college behind me, more than that, and I'm still a virgin. It's been very painful. College is the time when everyone experiences these things like sex and pleasure. I had to spend these years in solitude. That's not fair. You girls have never felt emotionally drawn to me. I don't know why you girls aren't attracted to me, but I'll punish you all for it.

His closing words are, “In the end you will see that I am the superior, the true alpha male ... After destroying every single girl in the fraternity, I will slaughter every person I am on the streets of Isla Vista See. ”With the exception of the last video, the rest of the footage was known to the police in the weeks before the rampage. However, officials did not see Rodger as a threat to themselves or to others. The last video, in which he detailed his plans, was reportedly seen by the police an hour after the killing spree.

On May 27, 2014, all videos that Rodger had posted on YouTube were removed. A spokeswoman for YouTube said the videos violated the website's rules. Some time later, Rodger's videos were posted on the video portal again and Rodger's YouTube channel is available again (as of March 2017).

Victim

Memorial Ceremony at Harder Stadium, University of California, Santa Barbara on May 27, 2014

The six fatally wounded victims were students at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

  • Cheng Yuan Hong, 20
  • George Chen, 19th
  • Weihan Wang, 20
  • Katherine Cooper, 22
  • Veronika Weiss, 19
  • Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, 20

Consequences

On June 10, 2014, the United States House of Representatives passed Resolution 60, with which the House of Representatives sharply condemned the rampage. Among other things, called for Lois Capps and Jackie Speier the Congress on, strengthened against gun violence proceed.

In response to the rampage, a tightening of the California gun law was discussed. A bill allowing the confiscation of weapons in the event that the weapon owner endangers himself or others was introduced in the course of the rampage and approved on September 30, 2014 as Assembly Bill 1014 by the California Governor Jerry Brown . Under the new law, family members or police officers can apply for an injunction against a gun owner and have guns withdrawn for up to 21 days if the gun owner poses a threat. Under the old law, police officers were not allowed to confiscate weapons.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ian Lovett and Asam Nagourney: Video Rant, Then Deadly Rampage in California Town . In: The New York Times , May 24, 2014.
  2. ^ Christiane Heil: Elliot Rodger: rampage with announcement . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ The fils d'un réalisateur annonce “le jour du châtiment” et tue 6 personnes en Californie . In: Le Monde , May 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Alan Duke: Timeline to 'Retribution': Isla Vista attacks planned over years . In: CNN , May 27, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Jennifer Medina: Even in a State With Restrictive Laws, Gunman Amassed Weapons and Ammunition . In: New York Times , May 25, 2014.
  6. ↑ Philip Ross: California Police Lacked Probable Cause To Confiscate Shooter Elliot Rodger's Handguns . In: International Business Times , May 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Lauren Paglini: How Far Will the Strictest State Push the Limits: The Constitutionality of California's Proposed Gun Law Under the Second Amendment . In: Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law . 23, No. 3, 2015, pp. 459-485.
  8. ^ A b c Shelby Lin Erdman and Greg Botelho: Timeline: A killer's rampage through a California college town . In: CNN , May 25, 2014.
  9. ↑ Oren Dorell and William M. Welch: Police identify Calif. shooting suspect as Elliot Rodger . In: USA Today , May 26, 2014.
  10. ^ Raquel Maria Dillon, Martha Mendoza and Julie Watson: US Sheriff: Calif. Gunman Killed 3 People at Home . In: ABC News , May 24, 2014.
  11. ^ Ian Lovett: Rampage Victims Drawn to California Campus From Near and From Far . In: New York Times , May 25, 2014.
  12. ^ Isla Vista suspect allowed to buy guns despite emotional problems . In: The Los Angeles Times , May 28, 2014.
  13. ^ A b Chris Carlson: Thwarted in his plan, California gunman improvised . In: CBSNews , May 25, 2014.
  14. ↑ Amanda Covarrubias and Joe Mozingo: In a college community, disbelief turns to outrage and mourning . In: Los Angeles Times , May 25, 2014.
  15. ^ Elliot Rodger manifesto outlines plans for Santa Barbara attack . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , May 25, 2014.
  16. ↑ Andrew Springer: The Agony of Peter Rodger, a Dad Whose Son Became a Mass Killer . In: ABC News , June 27, 2014.
  17. ↑ Antonia Molloy: California killings: Elliot Rodger's parents heard news of massacre on radio as they raced to stop their son . In: The Independent , May 26, 2014.
  18. ^ A b c Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office: Isla Vista Mass Murder May 23, 2014. Investigative Summary , 2015, p. 52.
  19. ↑ Lindsay Bramble: Putting a Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound: Why Gun Legislation Targeting Individuals With Mental Illness Isn't Working . In: Journal of Health Care and Policy . 14, No. 2, 2014, pp. 303-325.
  20. ^ Joan Walsh: Elliot Rodger's half-white male privilege , Salon.com , May 29, 2014.
  21. ↑ Adam Nagourney et al. a .: Before Brief, Deadly Spree, Trouble Since Age 8 . In: The New York Times , June 2, 2014.
  22. ↑ a b c Isla Vista Mass Murder May 23, 2014 - Investigative Summary ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . County Sheriff Bill Brown's investigation report, Feb. 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sbsheriff.us
  23. ↑ Sindermann: friend of the killer: "He wanted the world to submit" , Merkur.de , 05/26/14.
  24. ↑ Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office: Isla Vista Mass Murder May 23, 2014. Investigative Summary , 2015, p. 46.
  25. ↑ a b Keegan Hankes, Alex Amend: The Alt-Right is Killing People , Southern Poverty Law Center , February 5, 2018.
  26. ^ Jenny Rice: Pathologia . In: Quarterly Journal of Speech . 101, No. 1, Spring 2015, pp. 34–45. doi : 10.1080 / 00335630.2015.995921 .
  27. ^ Paul Gill: Lone-Actor Terrorists: A Behavioral Analysis . Routledge, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-138-78756-8 , p. 13 .
  28. ↑ a b c Inside Elliot Rodger's Twisted World: manifesto outlines killer's plans for 'retribution' before drive-by shooting In: News.com.au , May 26, 2014.
  29. ↑ Oliver Darcy: Six Absolutely Shocking Details From Suspected Santa Barbara Shooter's 141-Page Manifesto ( Memento of the original of July 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Blaze , May 24, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theblaze.com
  30. ↑ a b Jennifer Golbeck and Judith L. Klavans: YouTube . In: Introduction to Social Media Investigation: A Hands-on Approach . Syngress, Waltham (MA) 2015, ISBN 978-0-12-801656-5 , pp. 171 f.
  31. ↑ Dave Lee: Gunman Elliot Rodger's videos removed by YouTube . In: BBC , May 27, 2014.
  32. ^ Kashmir Hill: All Of Elliot Rodger's Videos (Finally) Removed From YouTube . In: Forbes , May 27, 2014.
  33. ↑ Holly Yan, Pamela Brown and Alan Duke: New details emerge about California killer and his victims . In: CNN , May 28, 2014.
  34. ↑ Christina Marcos: House condemns Isla Vista shooting . In: The Hill , June 10, 2014. See also: Capps Resolution Condemning Isla Vista Shooting Passes House ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on capps.house.gov . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / capps.house.gov
  35. ↑ Melanie Mason: Lawmakers seek 'gun violence restraining order' after UCSB slayings . In: Los Angeles Times , May 27, 2014.
  36. ↑ a b Shannon Frattaroli include: Gun Violence Restraining Orders: alternative or adjunct to Mental Health-Based Restrictions on Firearms? In: Behavioral Sciences & the Law . 33. No. 2/3, June 2015, pp. 290-307. doi : 10.1002 / bsl.2173 .
  37. ↑ a b Patrick McGreevy: Governor OKs temporary gun seizures from people judged to be a danger . In: Los Angeles Times , September 30, 2014. See also: Assembly Bill No. 1014 on Legislature.ca.gov .

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