2014 Isla Vista killings

2014 Isla Vista killings
Memorial held for the victims on May 24, 2014
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Location	Isla Vista, California, U.S.
Coordinates	34°24′43″N 119°51′32″W / 34.412°N 119.859°W / 34.412; -119.859
Date	May 23, 2014; 10 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 two 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".