May 23, 2014; 9 years ago (2014-05-23) 9:27 – 9:35 p.m. (UTC−8:00)
Target
Students of the University of California, Santa Barbara, roommates
Attack type
Spree killing
murder–suicide
drive-by shooting
stabbing
mass shooting
mass murder
vehicle-ramming attack
shootout
Weapons
Two knives
Glock 34 handgun
Two SIG Sauer P226 handguns
BMW 328i Coupé
Deaths
7 (3 by stabbing; 4 by gunfire, including the perpetrator)
Injured
14 (7 by gunfire, 7 struck by motor vehicle)
Perpetrator
Elliot Rodger
Motive
Misogynist terrorism, revenge for sexual and social rejection, incel ideology
The 2014 Isla Vista killings were two misogynistic terror attacks in Isla Vista, California. On the evening of Friday, May 23, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger killed six people and injured fourteen others by gunshot, stabbing and vehicle ramming near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), before fatally shooting himself.
Rodger stabbed his two roommates and their friend to death in his apartment, ambushing and killing them separately as they arrived. About three hours later, he drove to a sorority house and, after failing to get inside, shot three women outside, two of whom died. He next drove past a nearby deli and shot and killed a man who was inside. He then drove around Isla Vista, shooting and wounding several pedestrians from his car and striking others with his car. He exchanged gunfire with police twice and was injured in the hip. After his car crashed into a parked vehicle, he was found dead inside with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Before driving to the sorority house, Rodger uploaded a video to YouTube titled "Elliot Rodger's Retribution", in which he outlined his planned attack and his motives. He explained that he wanted to punish women for rejecting him, and sexually active men because he envied them. He also emailed a lengthy autobiographical manuscript to friends, his therapist, and family members; the document appeared on the Internet and became widely known as his manifesto. In it, he described his childhood, family conflicts, frustration over his inability to find a girlfriend, his hatred of women, his contempt for couples, and his plans for what he described as "retribution". In February 2020, the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism at the Hague retroactively described the killings as an act of misogynist terrorism.[1] The US Secret Service describes it as "misogynistic extremism".[2]
^Cite error: The named reference ICCT.Misogyny was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^United States Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (March 2022). Hot Yoga Tallahassee: a Case Study of Misogynistic Extremism (Report). Department of Homeland Security. p. 4. Archived from the original on April 4, 2022. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
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