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UC Santa Barbara drive-by shooting kills 7
GOLETA, Calif. -- The son of a Hollywood director stabbed three men to death in his apartment, gunned down two women outside a sorority and randomly killed a sixth person in a rampage that was foreshadowed by a chilling Internet video in which he vowed to slaughter all the people who wronged him.
The 22-year-old lone gunman, Elliot Rodger - the son of a director who worked on the "The Hunger Games" - carried out his attacks Friday night in the beach community of Isla Vista near the University of California, Santa Barbara only hours after he looked straight into a video camera and warned in a chilling Internet video that he would slaughter all the people who wronged him, authorities said.
MORE: Shooting suspect Elliot Rodger's manifesto
VIDEO: UCSB shooting suspect Elliot Rodger's YouTube video
Deputies wounded him during two separate shootouts as he sped through Isla Vista, leaving a trail of bloodshed that ended with Rodger apparently shooting himself in the head before crashing his black BMW crashing into a parked car, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said.
Thirteen people were injured - eight from gunshot wounds, four from being hit by his car and one who suffered a minor injury whos
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Isla Vista shooting: Former roomie recalls shelling victim
A grass college roomy of Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, one resolve the casualties of Fri night’s killing rampage unite Isla View, Calif., described the 20-year-old as remorseless and family-oriented.
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Michaels-Martinez further loved his family — “very much,” Dolphin thought. His coat