Elliot Rodger

ORIGINAL TIMELINE
Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger was born in London, United Kingdom, and moved to the United States with his parents when he was five years old.[6] He was raised in Los Angeles. His father is British filmmaker Peter Rodger, his paternal grandfather photo-journalist George Rodger.[5][7] His mother is a Malaysian Chinese research assistant for a film company.[8][9][10] A younger sister was born before his parents divorced. After his father remarried, he and his second wife, a Moroccan actress, had a son together.[11]

Rodger attended Crespi Carmela High School, an all-boys Catholic school in Encino, Los Angeles, and then Taft High School in Woodland Hills.[12] He graduated from Independence Continuation High School in Lake Balboa in 2009,[12] and briefly attended Los Angeles Pierce College and Moorpark College before moving to Isla Vista in 2011.[13] He attended Santa Barbara City College; in his manifesto he said that he dropped out of his classes in February 2012;[14] after the killings the school said he had no longer been taking classes.[15]

According to his family's attorney and a family friend, Rodger had seen multiple therapists since he was eight years old,[15] but the attorney said he had never been formally diagnosed with a mental illness.[16] He was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified, an autism spectrum disorder, in 2007.[13]

By the ninth grade, Rodger was "increasingly bullied", and wrote later that he "cried by [himself] at school every day";[17] at this time he developed an obsession with the multiplayer-online game World of Warcraft, which dominated his life for most of his teenage years, and briefly into his 20s. At Crespi Carmelite High he was bullied; in one incident his head was taped to a desk while he was asleep.[3][18] According to Rodger, in 2012, "the one friend [he] had in the whole world who truly understood [him] ... said he didn't want to be friends anymore" without offering any reason.[17] Rodger had a YouTube account, and a blog titled "Elliot Rodger's Official Blog", through which he expressed loneliness and rejection. He wrote that he had been prescribed risperidone but refused to take it, stating, "After researching this medication, I found that it was the absolute wrong thing for me to take."[19]

In 2011, Rodger threw coffee on a couple he was jealous of;[22]:87 in another incident, he splashed coffee on two girls for not smiling at him.[22]:100 In 2012 Rodger used a Super Soaker filled with orange juice to spray a group playing kickball at Girsh Park.[22]:106–107[23]

Referring to an incident in July 2013,[23] Rodger wrote that after being mocked at a party he tried but failed to shove some girls over a ten-foot ledge; instead other boys pushed him over and his ankle was injured. When he went back for his sunglasses he was again mocked, and beaten. A neighbor saw Rodger come home crying and vowing to kill the men involved and then himself.[17] He wrote in his manifesto that the incident was the final trigger for his planning the attack.[23]

In January 2014, Rodger accused Cheng Yuan Hong, one of his roommates, of stealing some candles; Hong pleaded guilty to petty theft.[24][25] On April 30,[26] Rodger's parents contacted police after becoming alarmed by his behavior and YouTube videos.[22]:134[4][27] Sheriff's deputies who visited Rodger determined that he did not meet the criteria for an involuntary mental health commitment; Rodger had told them he had a "misunderstanding" with his parents.[28]

Rodger emailed his 107,000-word manifesto, My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger,[29] to 34 people,[13]:7 including his therapist,[30][31] his parents and other family,[32] former teachers, and childhood friends.[33] In it he said he'd originally sought to carry out an attack on Halloween of 2013, but reconsidered because he thought there would be too many police about.[22]:110

In his last YouTube video, "Elliot Rodger's Retribution", he complained of being rejected by women and envying sexually active men, and described his planned attack[34] and the motives behind it.[35] In the video, he says:

Hi. Elliot Rodger here. Well, this is my last video. It all has to come to this. Tomorrow is the day of retribution, the day in which I will have my retribution against humanity, against all of you. For the last eight years of my life, ever since I hit puberty I have been forced to endure an existence of loneliness and unfulfilled desires all because girls have never been attracted to me. Girls gave their affection and sex and love to other men but never to me. I am 22 years old and still a virgin. I have never even been kissed by a girl. I have been through college for two and a half years, more than that, and I am still a virgin. It has been very torturous. College is the time when everyone experiences those things such as sex and fun and pleasure, but in those years I have had to rot in loneliness. It’s not fair. You girls have never been attracted to me. I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it. It is an injustice, a crime, because I don’t know what you don’t see in me. I am the perfect guy, but yet, you throw yourselves at all these obnoxious men, instead of me the supreme gentleman. I will punish all of you for it. On the day of retribution, I am going to enter the hottest sorority house on UCSB and I will slaughter every single spoiled, stuck-up blonde slut I see inside there. All those girls that I have desired so much, they would have all rejected me and looked at me as an inferior man if I ever made a sexual advance towards them. While they throw themselves at these obnoxious brutes, I will take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you. You will finally see that I am in truth the superior one, the true alpha male. Yes, after I have annihilated every single girl in the sorority house, I will take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see there. All those popular kids who live such lives of hedonistic pleasure while I have had to rot in loneliness for all of these years, they have all looked down upon me every time I have tried to go out and join them. They have all treated me like a mouse, but now, I will be a God compared to you. We will all be animals, you are animals and I will slaughter you like animals. I will be a God, exacting my retribution on all those who deserve it, and you do deserve it just for the crime of living better life than me. All you popular kids you have never accepted me and now you will pay for it. Girls, all I have ever wanted was to love you and to be loved by you. I wanted a girlfriend, I’ve wanted sex, love, adoration, but you think I am unworthy of it. That’s a crime that can never be forgiven. If I can’t have you, girls, I will destroy you. You’ve denied me a happy life and in turn I will deny all of you life. It is only fair. I hate all of you, humanity is a disgusting retched, depraved species. If I had it in my power I would stop at nothing to reduce every single one of you to mountains of skulls and rivers of blood and rightfully so. You deserve to be annihilated, and I will give that to you. You never showed me any mercy, so I will show you none. You forced me to suffer all my life and now I will make you all suffer. I have waited a long time for this, I will give you exactly what you deserve, all of you all you girls who rejected me and looked down on me, treated me like scum while you gave yourselves to other men. and all of you men for living a better life than me. All of you sexually active men, I hate you, I hate all of you. I can’t wait to give you exactly what you deserve, utter annihilation.- Elliot Rodger (Retribution Video)

He wrote in My Twisted World that being of mixed race made him "different from the normal fully white kids".[3][17] On one online forum, he said that he opposed interracial dating and made several racist posts regarding African-American, Hispanic, South Asian and East Asian people, stating that seeing men of these ethnic groups socializing with white women "makes you want to quit life."[22]:87[17][37] In one online post, Rodger wrote: Full Asian men are disgustingly ugly and white girls would never go for you. You're just butthurt that you were born as an Asian piece of shit, so you lash out by linking these fake pictures. You even admit that you wish you were half white. You'll never be half-white and you'll never fulfill your dream of marrying a white woman. I suggest you jump off a bridge.[37]

In his manifesto, Rodger made a racist comment regarding another boy, outlining some of his plans:How could an inferior, ugly black boy be able to get a white girl and not me? I am beautiful, and I am half white myself. I am descended from British aristocracy. He is descended from slaves. On the day before the Day of Retribution, I will start the First Phase of my vengeance: Silently killing as many people as I can around Isla Vista by luring them into my apartment through some form of trickery.[38]

A "War on Women" was the second phase of his plan: The Second Phase will take place on the Day of Retribution itself, just before the climactic massacre ... My War on Women ... I will attack the very girls who represent everything I hate in the female gender: The hottest sorority of UCSB.[39]

Rodger stated in his manifesto that in his ideal world, he imagined that he would "quarantine all [women] in concentration camps. At these camps, the vast majority of the female population will be deliberately starved to death. That would be an efficient and fitting way to kill them all off ... I would have an enormous tower built just for myself ... and gleefully watch them all die."[22]:136 He also dreamed of "a pure world, [where] the man's mind can develop to greater heights than ever before. Future generations will live their lives free of having to worry about the barbarity of sex and women, which will enable them to expand their intelligence and advance the human race to a state of perfect civilization". He further said that he planned to kill his half-brother and stepmother, but was not mentally prepared to kill his father.

In September 2012, Rodger visited a shooting range to practice firing handguns.[14] In November 2012 he purchased his first handgun, a Glock 34 pistol, in Goleta after doing research on handguns, choosing it as "an efficient and highly accurate weapon".[30] In early 2013, Rodger bought two additional handguns, both SIG Sauer P226 pistols, writing that they were "of a much higher quality than the Glock" and "a lot more efficient".[14] He purchased the weapons legally in Oxnard and Burbank California.[40]

Rodger claimed to have saved $5,000, which was given to him by his parents and grandmothers, in order to purchase the weapons and supplies for the attacks.[14][41] Gun law experts in California have said that there was nothing in his known history that prevented him from making legal firearm purchases.

Rodger began his attacks at his apartment on Seville Road, where three men were killed by numerous stab wounds to their upper bodies. Bloodstains later found in the building's hallway suggested that one or more of the victims had been attacked as he entered, and a bloody bath towel and paper towels in the bathroom suggest Rodger had attempted to clean the hallway.[13] Their positions suggested that each was killed separately as he entered.[42] Two of the victims were confirmed to be Rodger's roommates according to an apartment lease, while police were investigating whether the third was also a resident or visiting the apartment on the night of the killings.[2][43][44][45][a]

After the stabbings, Rodger purchased coffee at a coffee shop,[13] then at around 8:30 p.m., he was seen working on his laptop in his car in the parking lot of his apartment building.[49] He uploaded his "Retribution" video at 9:17 and sent his manifesto e-mail at 9:18.[50] After receiving a copy of the manifesto, Rodger's therapist phoned his mother, who – finding the "Retribution" video on Rodger's YouTube channel – contacted Rodger's father. In separate cars they left Los Angeles for Santa Barbara, calling Isla Vista police while en route.[31][13]

Rodger drove to the Alpha Phi sorority house at Embarcadero del Norte and Segovia Road near UCSB,[b] where he knocked on the front door for a few minutes[52] then began shooting people nearby. Two women were killed[53] and a third was injured.

Rodger began driving again. He fired into an unoccupied coffee shop on Pardall Road, then several times into a delicatessen; a man was struck seven times and killed.[13]

Rodger drove south on Embarcadero del Norte on the wrong side of the street, striking a pedestrian and firing at, but missing, two persons on the sidewalk. He shot a couple exiting a pizzeria and a female cyclist.[13][55][56][4][57][58] He drove south on El Embarcadero and shot at and missed a woman,[59] turned east on Del Playa Drive, and made a U-turn to drive west. He then exchanged fire with a sheriff's deputy responding to a telephone report, and struck two pedestrians.[13][60][61][57][62]

Turning north on Camino del Sur, Rodger shot and wounded three people at Sabado Tarde Street, and also struck a skateboarder and two cyclists with his car. Turning east on Sabado Tarde, he struck another skateboarder with his car and shot two other men at the intersection with Camino Pescadero.[13] On Sabado Tarde near Little Acorn Park, Rodger exchanged gunfire with three sheriff's deputies, and was shot in the hip.[63][15][60][61][64] Pursued by police,[13] he turned south a second time onto El Embarcadero, then west again on Del Playa. He struck a cyclist, then crashed on the north sidewalk just east of the intersection of Del Playa and Camino Pescadero.

At 9:35, police found Rodger dead inside his car from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head.[13] In the car were three pistols, knives, six empty ten-round magazines, and 548 rounds of unspent ammunition.

ALTERED TIMELINE
In an Altered Timeline young Elliot Rodger was walking alone when he was being beaten up and bullied by jocks. They killed him during the process, making the world a much better place. If only this actually happened, the world would have been much better off.