Police have identified the victims of a killing spree in California which left seven people dead, including the attacker.
22 year old Elliot Rodger, son of a Hollywood director, stabbed his three roommates to death before shooting three more victims on Friday night near the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in Isla Vista. At least 13 people were wounded. Rodger later killed himself.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department officials named Cheng Yuan Hong, 20, of San Jose; George Chen, 19, of San Jose; and Weihan Wang, 20, of Fremont, who were stabbed multiple times at his Isla Vista apartment.
Police said Rodger attacked them before going on a rampage through Isla Vista, killing three more people: Students Katherine Cooper, 22, Veronica Weiss, 19, and Christopher Michael-Martinez, 20, before taking his own life.
Hong and Chen were Rodger’s roommates. It’s unclear whether Wang also was a roommate or was just visiting, officials said. Finding their bodies inside the apartment was “a horrific crime scene,” Sheriff Bill Brown said according to the Los Angeles Times.
Rodger, who was a regular poster on so-called "mens rights" activist (MRA) and pick-up artist (PUA) message boards, left a series of disturbing videos in which he expressed a violent misogynistic rage against women.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Centre, Rodger, who was mixed race, frequently expressed racist and anti-Asian views:
Rodger, however, apparently did not only hate women. His PuaHate postings include rants against interracial dating and black, Asian and Indian men.
In January, Rodger posted a message, entitled "Saw a black guy sitting with 4 white girls," in which he expressed his outrage over white women socializing with minority men:
Today I drove through the area near my college and saw some things that were extremely rage-inducing.
I passed by this restaurant and I saw this black guy chilling with 4 hot white girls. He didn't even look good.
Then later on in the day I was shopping at Trader Joe's and saw an Indian guy with 2 above average White Girls!!!
What rage-inducing sights did you guys see today? Don't you just hate seeing these things when you go out? It just makes you want to quit life.
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