TRIGGER WARNING: This article includes graphic descriptions of violence, and may be triggering for some readers.
UPDATE: The father of mass murderer Elliot Rodger has spoken about the gun massacre his son carried out.
Peter Rodger, who helped direct The Hunger Games, has spoken of his ‘inconceivable pain’ after his son killed six people yesterday, before killing himself.
The assistant director released a statement through his lawyer Alan Shifman, saying: “The Rodger family offers their deepest compassion and sympathy to the families involved in this terrible tragedy.
“We are experiencing the most inconceivable pain, and our hearts go out to everybody involved.”
The lawyer also revealed that the family called the police several weeks before the shooting, after they were deeply concerned when they discovered the YouTube videos Elliot had been posting, “regarding suicide and the killing of people”.
In another development, a 140-page manifesto by Elliot Rodger has been delivered to a TV station, which details how Rodger planned to commit his horrific crime.
Rodger called the document “My Twisted World”, and in it his state of mind is clearly revealed.
“All of those beautiful girls I’ve desired so much in my life, but can never have because they despise and loathe me, I will destroy,” Rodger wrote. He continued:
All of those popular people who live hedonistic lives of pleasure, I will destroy, because they never accepted me as one of them. I will kill them all and make them suffer, just as they have made me suffer. It is only fair.
I would have to kill my housemates to get them out of the way…In fact, I’d even enjoy stabbing them both to death while they slept.
His document first details how he planned to stab his house-mates, before discussing his “War on Women”.
I will punish all females for the crime of depriving me of sex. They have starved me of sex for my entire youth, and gave that pleasure to other men.
In doing so, they took many years of my life away.
I cannot kill every single female on earth, but I can deliver a devastating blow that will shake all of them to the core of their wicked hearts. I will attack the very girls who represent everything I hate in the female gender: The hottest sorority of UCSB.
… I will slaughter every single spoiled single stuck up blonde s**t I see…
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This is about misogyny. Best article about Rodgers here:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/...
I'm mad about the fact that the lawyer released that statement labeling him as "high-functioning Aspergers" as if his Aspergers was the reason he murdered people. No. Just no. My brother is high functioning Aspergers and he couldn't even find it in him to fight back if someone were beating him up, let alone take to murder when things don't go his way. Now, because of that statement, there'll be people out there who fear and stigmatise people with Aspergers because of this incident. Rodgers murdered people because he had other severe mental health issues coupled with a sense of entitlement to women's bodies. His Aspergers would be largely irrelevant to this.
I was reading the LA Times and they reported that his parents said he wasn't ever officially diagnosed with Aspbergers but they suspected he was on the spectrum. They had seen multiple therapists trying to get him help. So very sad. I felt the same as you when I heard the news.... Makes me not want to say what my son has.