Originally published on Saturday, May 24 at 8:41 a.m. It has since been updated.



Early news reports of the Isla Vista massacre linked the horrific rampage near UC Santa Barbara to 22-year-old Elliot Rodger.

Seven people were killed in the apparent premeditated mass murder, including the shooter, and seven others were injured.

Rodger was the son of ‘The Hunger Games’ second-unit Director Peter Rodger, according to multiple media reports. Rodger’s step mother was Soumaya Akaaboune, an actress who was in ‘The Green Zone’ and was in the French language version of ‘The Real Housewives,’ according to the Telegraph. The trio were all on the red carpet for ‘The Hunger Games’ premiere in 2012.

The day of the shooting, Rodger apparently posted a disturbing retribution video to his YouTube channel, which also has several other videos (scroll down to see some) lamenting his lonely life full of rejection and unfulfilled desires.

“You girls have never been attracted to me. I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it,” Rodger said in the video.

YouTube removed the video by 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, but it continued to make the rounds on the Internet on other channels. Local Santa Barbara news site Noozhawk uploaded the video to Vimeo.

In the video Rodger said he planned to enter a sorority house to start his retribution. “I will slaughter every single spoiled, struck-up blonde slut I see inside there.”

He said he would then go to the streets to continue his massacre.

“I will take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you. You will finally see that I am, in truth, the superior one, the true alpha male,” he said.

Entering a sorority didn’t pan out, it appears. The Friday night shootings all occurred from a black BMW on the streets of Isla Vista, according to media reports.