Crime & Safety
Elliot Rodger on YouTube: 'I Will Slaughter ... All Those Girls I Desired So Much'
Lamenting his virginity and proclaiming himself the "true alpha male," the suspected spree killer of UC Santa Barbara posted his final video blog on Friday.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — "Girls, all I’ve ever wanted was to love you and to be loved by you," says Elliot Rodger in his final YouTube video post before vowing to go on a killing spree. "I've wanted a girlfriend. I’ve wanted sex. I’ve wanted love, affection, adoration. You think I’m unworthy of it.
"That’s a crime that can never be forgiven."
Police suspect Rodger, 22, as the gunman who went on a shooting spree in the Isla Vista neighborhood Friday night near the UC Santa Barbara campus, trading gunfire with police as he took aim at the young people who fueled his emotional torment and feelings of inadequacy.
In the video, posted by Rodger on Friday, he calmly sat in the driver's seat of a car and detailed plans to "slaughter ... all those girls I desired so much ... the hottest sorority girls" at UCSB.
"I'll 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've had to rot in loneliness for all those years."
"I'll be a god exacting my retribution on all those who deserve it ... Just for the crime of living a better life than me."
Saturday morning, YouTube removed the video from the web. City News Service in Los Angeles reports that his mother has called police in the past when she found a disturbing video on her son's YouTube account.
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