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Published on May 24, 2014
California Gunman Was Filmmaker Peter Rodger’s Son
A Hollywood filmmaker believes his son carried out drive-by shootings that killed six people in California late on Friday, a family lawyer says.
Peter Rodger, who was assistant director on The Hunger Games, thinks the attacker was his 22-year-old son Elliot, the statement said.
The gunman died of bullet wounds after going on a rampage near Santa Barbara.
Police are investigating a video in which a man complains of rejection by women, threatening revenge.
Authorities have not confirmed the identity of the gunman, or that of the young man seen in the YouTube video.
But Peter Rodger’s lawyer, Alan Shifman, said on Saturday that the “family believes the child was the perpetrator”.
He said the son had Asperger’s syndrome, had trouble making friends and had been receiving professional help.
Mr Shifman added that the family had contacted police about “recent posts on YouTube” by Elliot “regarding suicide and the killing of people”.
The family is “devastated” and co-operating with police, he said.
Ricardo Martinez, whose 20-year-old son Christopher was one of the victims, spoke of his grief.
“When will this insanity stop? … Too many have died. We should say to ourselves ‘Not one more’,” he said.
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