9 Killed in Santa Barbara

[Steve Dallas]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/24/justic...html?hpt=hp_t1

It is suspected that this guy was the guy that did it, as he left a bunch of videos, including one that talks about doing it. Most of the videos were posted over the last 2 days. Wonder if someone tried to report this guy beforehand or anything. The guy in the video drives a BMW and lives in that area. Police haven't yet confirmed he is the guy though.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ElliotRodger

[Mr Twisty]

Strike his name from the records, just call him Mud.... Maggot Bait works also.

[shibbs]

Originally Posted by Mr Twisty

Strike his name from the records, just call him Mud.... Maggot Bait works also.

This. I wish we'd stop giving these fools publicity--it's exactly what they want.

[Steve Dallas]

Unfortunately, publicity is what he's gotten.

I think my point is more along the lines of why no-one reported this guy beforehand. One of the videos talks about how his parents made him take the videos down for a while because they were disturbed by them.

[cornerspeed92]

Since these losers want publicity and destroy so many peoples life's. If i ran this country rather then arrest them and feed and cloth them medical dental, etc. I say we have a mobile electrical chair and fry them on the spot, end of story!!

[PHXLT1]

or firing squad. /\

[Silverlsinva]

After reading the stories and also after watching some of his video's it seemed to me that he was trying to reach out for help by posting them and yet no one came to help him or at least say dude some of this stuff u say is really creepy and a tad bit on the crazy side. He had no friends from what he says on them so no one to call him on his crap or stuff he does that makes people not like him. It does suck that he took 7 people's life but it prolly could have been prevented if one person took the time to try and be his friend.

[kalimus]

Originally Posted by Steve Dallas

Wonder if someone tried to report this guy beforehand or anything.

The better question would be if it would have done any good. The Aurora shooter was reported to the police by a shrink before hand, and they did nothing about it.

[Steve Dallas]

Originally Posted by kalimus

The better question would be if it would have done any good. The Aurora shooter was reported to the police by a shrink before hand, and they did nothing about it.

Very true.

I mean, you look at posts like these...which could be on any Forum anywhere. I'm not sure I'd report a post like this to police.



It sounds like he is the son of the assistant director of Hunger Games.

[PHXLT1]

Originally Posted by Silverlsinva

After reading the stories and also after watching some of his video's it seemed to me that he was trying to reach out for help by posting them and yet no one came to help him or at least say dude some of this stuff u say is really creepy and a tad bit on the crazy side. He had no friends from what he says on them so no one to call him on his crap or stuff he does that makes people not like him. It does suck that he took 7 people's life but it prolly could have been prevented if one person took the time to try and be his friend.

So you think a hug would have made it a different outcome? I seriously doubt it. Life is a challenge for everyone. There is not one person on this site that has not gone through some tribulations in life but we don't go killing people who had nothing to do with your troubles. No, I think he was just a weak minded individual who, although was going through issues, had no excuse to do what he did. My prayers go to the families of the victims.

[shine2013]

Seriously sad to read/see. Even worse, the fact that people ignored the signs for help. This stuff doesn't happen just for the sake of happening. Something is always there to build things up to this point.

[Mr Twisty]

Rodger was getting mental help. His parents reportedly saw his dozens of YouTube videos — of him wandering alone or sitting in his car complaining about the world’s unfairness, his loneliness and a desire for vengeance — and were concerned enough to report them to police, their lawyer tells ABC News. He was being treated by multiple therapists, according to the lawyer, and had been diagnosed as “a high-functioning patient with Asperger syndrome.”

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[Silverlsinva]

Originally Posted by PHXLT1

So you think a hug would have made it a different outcome? I seriously doubt it. Life is a challenge for everyone. There is not one person on this site that has not gone through some tribulations in life but we don't go killing people who had nothing to do with your troubles. No, I think he was just a weak minded individual who, although was going through issues, had no excuse to do what he did. My prayers go to the families of the victims.

Yea it is no excuse to kill 7 people but what the point I was trying to make is that no one seemed to try and be his friend and let him vent to them so they could be a sounding board and give good advice or even help him realize that the way he sounded was being to creepy. Yes everyone has problems in this world big and small but everyone deals with them differently some people turn to drugs and alcohol some people turn to family and others to friends and then there is professional help as well. Saying someone is weak minded is a cop out IMO. Unless you yourself or someone close to u has gone thru depression or living with it u don't know what your talking about.

[kalimus]

Originally Posted by Steve Dallas

Very true.

I mean, you look at posts like these...which could be on any Forum anywhere. I'm not sure I'd report a post like this to police.

Well this answers that:

http://news.yahoo.com/suspect-mass-s...143400839.html

It's being reported that the family of Elliot Rodgers, the suspect in the California mass shooting, called university police a few weeks ago after seeing YouTube videos "regarding suicide and the killing of people" posted by Rodgers online.

Good to know that it didn't make any difference... again.