How did Elliot Rodger knife three guys?

[PasadenaTrudy]

I know it is morbid, but I'm just wondering how he carried it out? Has anyone heard or have any ideas?

[JJChambers]

1. He describes his plan ...

Club them in the head with a hammer and then cut them up when unconscious.

Perhaps that's how.

[PasadenaTrudy]

2. Yikes. I hadn't heard that

Thanks for replying. That could be it.

[valerief]

4. He planned to shoot his mother and brother, too. And his dad, but only if he had to. nt

[LisaL]

17. Not his mother, his step mother and half-brother.

[valerief]

28. Oh, that's totally different then.

[LisaL]

29. There are two different women.

I guess that makes no difference to you?

[valerief]

30. I know, but killing either his mother or stepmom is equally disturbing.

Same for brother/half-brother.

[mindwalker_i]

3. With a gun?

[mwrguy]

5. Probably held a gun on them.

[PasadenaTrudy]

6. I just would think

they could have overpowered him. Maybe they weren't all there at once. But, you could be right.

[VScott]

12. Yeah, that will work.

"I'll shoot you if you don't stand still so I can stab you"

[dilby]

7. From what I have read he used a knife, a hammer and a machete.

Sounds like there was some torture involved and it was not quick deaths.

[PasadenaTrudy]

8. Jesus

What a whacko. So horrible....

[Aerows]

16. What Trudy said

My Lord, how horrible!

[Jamastiene]

13. Do you have a link?

Not being an ass. Just asking because I want to read up. Pretty please.

[dilby]

18. I read it somewhere else the other day and don't remember which but here is this.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10857021/Elliot-Rodger-may-have-used-machetes-and-hammer-to-murder-house-mates-in-killing-chamber.html

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/05/26/elliot-rodger-planned-on-turning-his-apartment-into-a-torture-and-killing-chamber-according-to-manifesto/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings

[Jamastiene]

33. Thank you.

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. In his manifesto, he focused quite a bit on the apt. killings

Words like "flay" and "torture" were often used, for the room mates.
He specifically said he was going to invite as many people as he could, inclduing them, one by one into the apt. and then kill them.
Sounds like he got at least 3 to enter.

[Cali_Democrat]

9. Ya...that one has me a little baffled myself

If they weren't drugged or anything, I would think it would be tough to take out THREE young men with a knife.

[PasadenaTrudy]

10. Exactly

I was wondering if they were drugged myself...

[Jamastiene]

11. I have no idea.

He was scrawny, but his last group of roommates weren't all that athletic, iirc. I'm interested in the details on that too.

[VScott]

14. According to his manifesto

He planned on stabbing them while they were sleeping

[SalviaBlue]

19. He probably also had a gun. nt

[WatermelonRat]

20. I read somewhere that they were asleep when he attacked.

I haven't seen the claim anywhere else, though, so I'm not sure how accurate it is.

[Lee-Lee]

21. A person with a knife can do a lot of damage very fast

One thing you learn early on in police training- don't let a person with a knife get close to you.


A determined person with a knife can do a whole lot of damage. In a close space like a dorm room against people with zero self defense training a whole lot.

Watch this video- these were cops who had training and knew they were facing some sort of training scenario:

http://m.

[LisaL]

22. Exactly.

His roommates were computer science students. Very unlikely they had any self defense training.

[treestar]

25. In Delaware a few years ago

A police officer chasing a suspect caught up with the suspect. The suspect killed the police officer with a knife.

[TeeYiYi]

23. Roofies and alcohol?...

After all, they were his roommates, weren't they? There would have been trust.

TYY

[LisaL]

24. Which is precisely why they most likely didn't trust him.

He accused one of his roommates of stealing candles from him. Called the police on the roommate and got the roommate arrested and charged with petty theft.
So, it's a fair bet they were not drinking together.

[TeeYiYi]

27. Were they still living togther...

...after the arrest?... That would be weird.

Psychopath nut job with a knife and a plan. It's the only answer.

TYY

[PasadenaTrudy]

26. Wow

Just awful...all of it.

[rickford66]

31. Why didn't the NSA forward the internet posts to local law enforcement?

I'm sure they have copies of all his rants.