Hollywood Directors son who Turned killer cos he was rejected by women

22-year-old Elliot Rodger stabbed three people to death in his apartment, before shooting another three in a drive by attack in California.

He has been identified as the son of Peter Rodger, the assistant director of The Hunger Games franchise.

Rodger launched his attack on Saturday in Santa Barbara, after revealing his plan in a Youtube video, saying he wanted revenge for being rejected.

The 22-year-old virgin also revealed plans to kill women.

The incident happened near the campus of the University of Santa Barbara.

Rodger Elliot was later found dead in his car, with self inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

A lawyer for the director, claims the family contacted police after the video was posted a few weeks ago. The family was disturbed by the video, said the lawyer, “regarding suicide and the killing of people”.

According to reports, he was being treated by numerous health professionals.

"I'll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you," Rodger, the son of a Hollywood director who worked on "The Hunger Games," says in the video posted Friday and taken down by YouTube Saturday with a message saying it violated the site's terms of service.

"I don't know why you girls are so repulsed by me," he says in the video, describing his loneliness and frustration at never having had sex with or even kissed a girl. "I am polite. I am the ultimate gentleman. And yet, you girls never give me a chance. I don't know why."

Of the men he sees as rivals, he said: "I deserve girls much more than all those slobs," and that
after his rampage "you will finally see that I am, in truth, the superior one, the true alpha male."

The first three killed Friday were male stabbing victims in Rodger's own apartment whose names have not been released, Sheriff Bill Brown said Saturday. 

His first stop was the Alpha Phi sorority, which he had called "the hottest sorority of UCSB."Then, at about 9:30 p.m., the citywide shooting and vehicle-ramming rampage began.

"I know exactly where their house is and I've sat outside it in my car to stalk them many times," Rodger wrote in his extensive manifesto titled "My Twisted World."

Students comfort each other during a candlelight vigil held to honour the victims of Friday night's mass shooting on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. (The Associated Press)k

No one answered the door after one to two minutes of aggressive pounding, but he soon shot three women who were standing nearby, killing two of them, 19-year-old Veronika Weiss and 22-year-old Katherine Cooper.

He then drove to a deli where he walked inside and shot and killed another UC Santa Barbara student, 20-year-old Christopher Michaels-Martinez, the sheriff said.

"Chris was a really great kid," Michaels-Martinez's father said at a news conference where he choked back tears and eventually collapsed to his knees in agony. "Ask anyone who knew him. His death has left our family lost and broken."

Michaels-Martinez was the last one killed, but rampage would continue as Rodger drove across Isla Vista, shooting at some and running down others with his car, twice exchanging gunfire with deputies. He was shot in the hip, but the gunshot to the head that killed him was thought to be self-inflicted, Brown said. 

Deputies found three semi-automatic handguns with 400 unspent rounds in his black BMW. All were purchased legally.Thirteen people were injured, eight from gunshot wounds, four from the vehicle and one whose origin wasn't clear. Just four of the injuries were considered serious.

Rodgers had been a student at various times in recent years at nearby Santa Barbara City College, but was no longer in any classes, the school said in a statement.

Authorities had had three contacts with Rodger in the past year, including one case in which he claimed to be beaten but deputies suspected he was the aggressor. 

On April 30, officials went to his Isla Vista apartment to check on him at the request of his family. But deputies reported back that he was shy, polite and having a difficult social life but did not need to be taken in for mental health reasons, Brown said. Rodger says in his manifesto: "If they had demanded to search my room... That would have ended everything. For a few horrible seconds I thought it was all over.