Full Coverage: Isla Vista killings near UC Santa Barbara
At first, when it began, it was lost to the soundtrack of another Friday night in this bluff-top college town: screeching tires and what sounded like fireworks.
But then — shattered glass. Sirens. Screams.
Within 10 minutes, it was done — seven dead, 13 wounded, a tormented young man slumped at the wheel of a shattered BMW, a gunshot wound to his head, three semiautomatic handguns and more than 400 rounds of ammunition at his side.
Behind him, there were 10 distinct crime scenes in a single square mile — skateboarders and bikers run down and tossed into the air; bullets bursting through the windows of shops; police officers tackling pedestrians and hauling them indoors to protect them; two young women dying on the lawn of a sorority.
For months, Elliot Rodger, 22, had posed behind the wheel of that same BMW, posting videos of himself on social media.
Here is The Times’ coverage of the attack.
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Elliot Rodger had planned his deadly attack on the Isla Vista community for more than a year, spending thousands of dollars in order to arm and train himself to kill as many people as possible, according to a report on the incident released Thursday by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office.
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In the months since his son was shot to death during a massacre near UC Santa Barbara, Richard Martinez has canvassed the country advocating for stricter regulations on firearms.
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At least one of the victims’ acquaintances has expressed anger over the intense focus on rampage suspect Elliot Rodger, saying it’s distracting from remembering his six victims.
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Family members of the UC Santa Barbara students killed in Elliot Rodger’s rampage in Isla Vista have reacted visibly with deep sorrow and anger, while others have remained silent, asking that their privacy be respected as they grieve.
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UC Santa Barbara declared a day of mourning and reflection Tuesday as the campus struggled to come to grips with the slayings of six students in Isla Vista on Friday.
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After initially refusing to take action, Facebook has removed a page glorifying Elliot Rodger, the man authorities say is behind the Isla Vista rampage that left six dead and several wounded Friday.
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What childhood friends remember most about Katherine Cooper was her energy: Katie, they said, was unbeatable at foot races, hide-and-go-seek and catching up with the ice-cream truck when it rolled through their tidy Chino Hills neighborhood.
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Thousands of students continued to share their grief this week at UC campuses across Southern California, where vigils were being organized to honor the six victims killed in the deadly Isla Vista rampage carried out by Elliot Rodger.
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Elliot Rodger, the man behind the deadly attacks in Isla Vista near UC Santa Barbara, was able to legally obtain three guns despite a history of depression and having been under the care of a therapist for some time.
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In his elaborate blueprint to kill strangers across this beachside college town, Elliot Rodger had vowed to start inside his own charcoal-gray building on Seville Road, with people he knew well: his roommates.
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One of the many disturbing elements of the Isla Vista killings is the mirror it holds up -- a distorted mirror, but a mirror nonetheless -- to the less admirable aspects of Southern California society.
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California legislators have spent much of the last two decades strengthening the state’s gun laws, but last weekend’s multiple killings in Isla Vista, Calif., by a young man previously identified by family to police as being a potential danger prove there is far more progress to be made.
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After three days of intense news coverage, student residents of the UC Santa Barbara community of Isla Vista are growing weary of reporters and TV camera crews who had descended on the coastal town after Friday’s rampage.
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Friends and classmates of three victims said Monday they were struggling with the idea that mass killer Elliot Rodger had overpowered and killed three grown men by himself in his Isla Vista apartment without any noise to attract neighbors.
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One of three roommates allegedly slain by Elliot Rodger was planning on moving out of their Isla Vista apartment because of conflicts they were having, the victim’s mother told KNTV Monday.
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There is a politely-worded “go away” note taped to the front door of the Alpha Phi sorority.
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Elliot Rodger, the man behind the deadly attacks at Isla Vista near UC Santa Barbara, had been under the care of a therapist for some time and had been prescribed psychiatric drugs.
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UC Santa Barbara canceled classes for Tuesday as the campus mourned six students killed in a rampage on Friday.
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Severity of killer’s mental ills slipped through cracks
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The killing rampage that left seven dead and 13 injured in Isla Vista this weekend isn’t the first tragedy to hit the coastal community near UC Santa Barbara.
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A neighbor who lived in the same Isla Vista apartment complex as rampage suspect Elliot Rodger said the 22-year-old was often withdrawn and seemed alienated.
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Chin Rodger got the call from her son Elliot Rodger’s therapist at 9:17 p.m.
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Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department officials Sunday identified the first three victims of the Isla Vista rampage, each found fatally stabbed Friday night inside an apartment not far from the UC Santa Barbara campus.
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Minutes after the shooting rampage in Isla Vista on Friday night, Pamela Lee, the on-call trauma surgeon at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, was told that a group of people, some with bullet injuries, were on their way to the emergency room.
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The gunman who killed six people in Isla Vista may have used social media to promote his violent intentions, but some of his victims also left traces of their own lives through Twitter, Instagram and other outlets.
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After the deadly Isla Vista rampage by an alienated young man who used social media to announce his plans to kill, social media struck back -- with the hashtag #YesAllWomen.
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The father of Isla Vista shooting victim Christopher Michaels-Martinez said he wants to meet with the father of his son’s killer to work toward preventing future tragedies.
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The father of a 20-year-old UC Santa Barbara student who was one of six killed people by a gunman in Isla Vista blamed lawmakers and gun rights proponents for the deadly rampage.
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When Bob and Colleen Weiss learned that their daughter may have been a victim in the Isla Vista shooting rampage, they immediately got in their car late Friday night and drove from their home in Thousand Oaks to Santa Barbara.
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The sorority allegedly targeted by a student whose shooting rampage in Isla Vista near UC Santa Barbara killed seven people, including the gunman, asked for privacy as authorities continued to piece together what happened.
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A former college roommate of Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, one of the victims of Friday night’s shooting rampage in Isla Vista, Calif., described the 20-year-old as kind and family-oriented.
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Customers in an Isla Vista, Calif., deli market can be seen in newly released surveillance video ducking for cover as a gunman opens fire outside the store near UC Santa Barbara on Friday night, killing one man, bringing the number of his victims to six. ------------ FOR THE RECORD An earlier version of this post incorrectly spelled Veronika Elizabeth Weiss’ first name Veronica. ------------ The video was captured by surveillance cameras at I.V.
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Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown on Sunday defended his agency’s handling of a visit deputies made last month to the suspect in Friday’s Isla Vista rampage that left seven dead.
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Thousands of community members gathered in a somber candlelight vigil on the UC Santa Barbara campus late Saturday to remember those who lost their lives during Friday’s shooting rampage in Isla Vista.
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In some mass shootings, authorities search for a motive.
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In video after video, Elliot Rodger roamed Santa Barbara like an invisible man, narrating his lonely existence in a strange, clinical tone, consumed by a feeling of total alienation.
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Student dies from gunshot wound after killing 6, wounding 13 near UCSB campus
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UC Santa Barbara had a notable double achievement in 2013.
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Mixed in with prayers and sympathy after the Isla Vista shooting and stabbing rampage in Santa Barbara County were renewed calls Saturday to pass stronger gun control legislation.
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Elliot Rodger, the suspect in a rampage near UC Santa Barbara, outlined his intentions in a 137-page document that he sent Friday night, shortly before the killings, to someone he knew from an online body building forum.
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Santa Barbara County sheriff’s officials said they had several interactions with the suspect in Friday’s Isla Vista deadly rampage but that none of them prompted suspicion.
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Santa Barbara County sheriff’s officials offered the most detailed description yet of the violent rampage in Isla Vista on Friday night, saying the suspect methodically killed at three separate locations near UC Santa Barbara.
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Authorities recovered three semi-automatic handguns that belonged to the man who launched a mass shooting Friday through the streets near UC Santa Barbara that left six people and the gunman dead.
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As out-of-town news organizations swept into tiny Isla Vista to report on Friday’s shooting rampage, campus newspaper editor Marissa Wenzke had already spent 12 hours on the story.
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The father of one of those who died in the shooting rampage in Isla Vista spoke out Saturday on the death of his son, Christopher Martinez.
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Authorities on Saturday afternoon removed three bodies from the apartment of the suspect in Friday night’s shooting rampage that left seven people dead in Isla Vista, near UC Santa Barbara.
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Santa Barbara County sheriff’s officials offered the most detailed description yet of the violent rampage in Isla Vista on Friday night, saying the suspect methodically killed at three separate locations near UC Santa Barbara.
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In the stream of videos and photos on his YouTube Channel and social media pages, Elliot Rodger made it clear he was feeling alienated and wasn’t afraid to be destructive.
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Officials at UC Santa Barbara said Saturday that they have activated the campus emergency operations center to assist grieving or concerned families in the wake of Friday night’s Isla Vista shooting rampage.
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A parent of a college student suspected of a shooting rampage in Isla Vista near UC Santa Barbara had become concerned about videos he was posting and alerted police a month ago, according to a source close to the family.
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A law enforcement source told The Times that Elliot Rodger is the suspected gunman responsible for a shooting rampage in the Isla Vista neighborhood near UC Santa Barbara that left seven people dead, including Rodger.
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A video in which a young man threatens violence is believed by authorities to be connected to a shooting rampage that left seven people dead, including the gunman, in the Isla Vista area near UC Santa Barbara.
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Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said some of those killed or injured in Friday night’s Isla Vista shooting rampage may have been struck by the suspect’s vehicle.
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Police said they are analyzing a video that might be connected to the shooting deaths of six people in Isla Vista near UC Santa Barbara on Friday night.
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A series of drive-by shootings in the Isla Vista area near UC Santa Barbara on Friday night left seven people dead, including a man believed to have carried out the attacks, and seven injured.
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