A college student in the US who went on a murderous rampage, killing six people, had a day earlier taped a video vowing a "day of retribution" against women who sexually shunned him.
The killings happened Friday night in the seaside college community of Isla Vista, close to the University of California at Santa Barbara, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
The young man was identified by authorities as Elliot Rodger, 22, son of Hollywood filmmaker Peter Rodger, who was assistant director on "The Hunger Games".
He stabbed three men to death in his Isla Vista apartment, police discovered.
Rodger then shot three university students to death and injured 13 other people, including four struck by his black BMW as he careened across town exchanging gunfire with sheriff's deputies, the report said.
He crashed his vehicle into a parked car, and when the deputies pulled him out and handcuffed him, they could clearly see that he was dead from a gunshot wound to the head, likely self-inflicted, Santa Barbara county Sheriff Bill Brown said Saturday at a news conference, according to the report.
The video, uploaded Friday to YouTube, and a separate, 141-page manifesto written by Rodger detailing his plans, suggest that "this atrocity was a premeditated mass murder," Sheriff Brown said.
"Hi. Elliot Rodger here," the video began. "Well, this is my last video. It all has to come to this. Tomorrow is the day of retribution. The day in which I will have my revenge against humanity. Against all of you."
Peter Rodger's lawyer Alan Shifman said Elliot Rodger had Asperger syndrome, had trouble making friends, and had been receiving professional help, BBC reported.
