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2 arrested in shooting near UCSB campus
May 12, 2015 | 12:38pmSANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Violence again struck the community near the University of California, Santa Barbara, a year after a 22-year-old's rampage left six students dead. Two university students in...
2 shot, 1 assaulted near UC Santa Barbara campus
May 12, 2015 | 12:20amSANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Two people were shot and a third was assaulted Monday night in an attack near the University of California, Santa Barbara in the same neighborhood where a...
Killer virgin researched ways to kill silently before rampage
February 19, 2015 | 5:27pmLOS ANGELES — A gunman who killed six University of California, Santa Barbara students searched online for ways to silently kill before using knives to stab to death his first...
Man stabs his family to death then calmly calls police
August 13, 2014 | 10:04amGOLETA, Calif. -- A man stabbed to death his elderly father, then killed his two young sons, his mother and finally the family dog. He then calmly called police to...
Killer virgin's dad breaks silence on son's carnage
June 26, 2014 | 12:35pmSleep is the only hiding place from his nightmare. Movie director Peter Rodger said he wakes up each morning to the horrifying realization that he is the father of psycho...
Grieving fathers linked by killing rampage meet
June 2, 2014 | 3:48amSANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The father of a college student who was gunned down in the May 23 mass killings near the University of California, Santa Barbara said he met...
'And then I realized I'm bleeding': Survivor of the killer virgin
May 30, 2014 | 1:04pmShe remembers his “smirky, grimacy smile” — just before he pumped five bullets into her body. Despite getting shot in the arm and chest, Bianca de Kock is still here, counted...
Sympathy for the devil's parents: They tried to stop killer virgin
May 30, 2014 | 1:48amMy daughter is a teenager filled with secrets, adolescent angst and enough inner drama to fill the pages of a Harlequin Romance novel. She tells me everything — except the...
Killer virgin's parents: It's 'living hell' knowing what our son did
May 29, 2014 | 2:13pmSix people were murdered in their son’s California killing spree, and life for the confused parents has been “hell on earth” ever since. “We are crying in pain for the...
Sandy Hook father to Isla Vista father: 'You are not alone'
May 28, 2014 | 2:29pmMark Barden lost his 7-year-old son during the 2012 Sandy Hook tragedy – and now he’s showing his solidarity with the parent of a 20-year-old victim who died at the...
Hijacking mass murder
May 28, 2014 | 12:31amElliot Rodger took six lives in a planned rampage sparked by narcissistic fury and a sick sense of sexual entitlement. The bloodshed near the University of California, Santa Barbara, is...
A selfie-era killer: Social media and Elliot Rodger
May 28, 2014 | 12:30amThere’s an elephant in the morgue with killer Elliot Rodger, and its name is social media. From what we can glean from Rodger’s YouTube videos, Facebook page and 141-page “manifesto,”...
Calif. killer's parents grieving more for victims than own son
May 27, 2014 | 6:17pmThe parents of California killer Elliot Rodger are grieving more for the victims than their own son, who blew his brains out after his rampage. “It’s very difficult to be...
Fate saves one man from UCSB killer, dooms another
May 27, 2014 | 12:27amA childhood buddy of the “virgin” murderer had a gut feeling he shouldn’t accept an invitation from Rodger to visit last weekend — likely saving him from becoming a victim...
The woman the UCSB killer blamed for his misogyny
May 26, 2014 | 12:57pmThe aspiring model whose childhood rejection of Elliot Rodger lit the fuse that turned him into a murderous madman barely remembers him, her dad told The Post on Monday. Pretty...
The vile manifesto of a killer
May 25, 2014 | 10:00pmHe scripted it like a sick Hollywood movie, starring himself as the pathetically wronged victim who would exact revenge on those who spurned him. Deranged, privileged California loser Elliot Rodger...
Cops ID stabbing victim in California rampage
May 25, 2014 | 7:39pmAuthorities have identified one of three men found stabbed to death in the California apartment of Elliot Rodger, who police say fatally shot three others in a killing spree that...
Cops never saw shooter's disturbing videos before spree
May 25, 2014 | 7:03pmGOLETA, Calif. — The threats of suicide and violence captured in Elliott Rodger's online videos were unsettling, even terrifying. In one, he stares icily into the camera, despairs over his...
Part of gunman's spree caught on tape
May 25, 2014 | 1:56pmChilling surveillance video of a California rampage shows the moment one of the victims was murdered in a deli Friday night -- and the terrifying chaos inside the store as...