HIGHWAY PATROL AND LIEUTENANT
DAVE MA LARD OF THE UC SANTA
BARBARA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
INFORMATION PERTAING TO THE
TRAGIC MASS MURDER INCIDENT THAT
OCCURRED LAST NIGHT IN ISLA
THIS WAS A CHAOTIC RAPIDLY
INCIDENT THAT INVOLVED MULTIPLE
INVESTIGATORS FROM THE SANTA
BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
AND FROM ALLIED AGENCIES HAVE
BEEN PROCESSING EVIDENCE AND
INVESTIGATING THIS OCCURRENCE
THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AND UP
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION HAS NOW
BEEN RECEIVED THAT WILL CLARIFY
AND IN SOME CASES CORRECT SOME
INFORMATION THAT WAS PRELIMINARY
FAIRLY CONVEYED AT OUR FIRST
I'D LIKE TO START BY CONFIRMING
THE IDENTITY OF THE SUSPECT IN
HIS NAME WAS ELLIOT OLIVER
ROBERTSON RODGER, R-O-D-G-E-R.
HIS DART OF BIRTH WAS JULY 24th,
1991, A 22-YEAR-OLD EURO RAY
SHANN MAIL A STUDENT OF SANTA
BARBARA CITY COLLEGE WHO WAS
OUR AGENCY HAD -- HAS HAD THREE
PREVIOUS DOCUMENTED CONTACTS
THE FIRST OF THOSE OCCURRED IN
JULY -- JULY 21st OF 2013 WHEN
THE SUSPECT WAS CONTACTED AT THE
HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS BEING
TREATED FOR INJURIES AND CLAIMED
TO BE THE VICTIM OF AN ASSAULT.
A UC POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICER
ASSIGNED TO THE ISLA VISTA FOOT
PATROL DOCUMENTED THAT INCIDENT
BUT RECEIVED INFORMATION THAT
THE INFORMANT, MR. RODGER, MAY
HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN THE AGGRESSOR
THAT CASE WAS SUSPENDED PENDING
THE SECOND INS ACCIDENT OCCURRED
WHEN SUSPECT RODGER CONTACTED
OUR AGENCY AND ACCUSED ONE OF
HIS ROOMMATES OF STEALING THREE
CANDLES THAT WERE VALUED AT $22.
RODGER MADE A CITIZEN ARREST OF
THE ROOMMATE ON CHARGE OF 488 OF
THE PENAL CODE WHICH IS PETTY
THE ROOMMATE WAS BOOKED INTO THE
JAIL, SUBSEQUENTLY CITED AND
RELEASED, AND LATER THE CASE WAS
SUBSEQUENTLY REFERRED TO THE
DISTRICT ATTORNEY WHO FILED A
PETTY THEFT CHARGE IN THAT CASE.
THE THIRD INCIDENT OCCURREDxx
APRIL 30th OF 2014 WHEN THE
SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES CONTACTED THE
SUSPECT AT HIS RESIDENCE TO
THAT REQUEST HAD ORIGINATED FROM
THE DEPUTIES CONTACTED THE
SUSPECT AT THE TIME, FOUND HIM
TO BE POLITE AND COURTEOUS.
HE DOWNPLAYED THE CONCERNS FOR
HIS WELFARE AND THE DEPUTIES
I WANT TO NOW GO INTO Axx
CHRONOLOGY OF THE EVENTS THAT
WE BELIEVE WE HAVE A FAIRLY GOOD
ALBEIT PERHAPS SOMEWHAT STILL
SUSPECT'S ACTIONS LAST NIGHT.
WE HAVE IDENTIFIED TEN SEPARATE
IN SEVERAL OF THOSE LOCATIONS
THERE WERE ACTUALLY MORE THAN
ONE SPECIFIC CRIME SCENE, BUT
I'M GOING GO THROUGH THESE
LOCATIONS, REFER TO THEM AS ONE
YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SHEET THAT
HAS A MAP OF ISLA VISTA WITH THE
NUxxMERALS ON THAT SHEET TO GIVE
YOU AN IDEA WHERE THE INCIDENT
-- OR HOW THE INCIDENT UNFOLDED
AND WHERE WHAT I'M ABOUT TO TELL
LOCATION NUMBER ONE, IT APPEARS
MURDERED THREE VICTIMS WITHIN
HIS RESIDENCE IN THE 6500 BLOCK
OF SEVILLE ROAD PRIOR TO THE
SHOOTING RAMPAGE THAT TOOK PLACE
THE THREE MALE VICTIMS APPEAR TOxx
HAVE BEEN REPEATEDLYxx STABBED.
WE'RE STILL PROCESSING THAT
CRIME SCENE AND WE ARE STILL IN
THE PROCESS OF POSITIVELY
IDENTIFYING THE VICTIMS AND
NOTIFYING THEIR NEXT OF KIN, SO
I WILL NOT HAVE THEIR IDENTITIES
THE SECOND LOCATION WAS THE
BEGINNING OF LAST NIGHT'S
RAMPAGE, AND THAT WAS AT THE
ALPHA THI SORITY IN THE 800
BLOCK OF EMBARCADARO EL NORTE.
SOME REPORTED HEARING A LOUD AND
AGGRESSIVE KNOCKING AT THE FRONT
DOOR, WHICH LASTED FOR ONE TO
FOUR NATALIE NO ONE OPENED THE
DOOR AND SHORTLY AFTERWARD
WITNESSES REPORTED SEEING THREE
YOUNG WOMEN WHO WERE STANDING
OUTSIDE IN THE VICINITY SHOT BY
THE SUSPECT FROM ACROSS THE
THE VICTIMS' NAMES, TWO OF THOSE
VICTIMS WERE FATALLY WOUNDED AND
ONE THANKFULLY IS STILL ALIVE.
THE T VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED
WERE CATHERINE BRIANNE COOPER, A
22-YEAR-OLD, AND VERONICA
ELIZABETH WEISS, A 19-YEAR-OLD.
BOTH OF THESE YOUNG LADIES WERE
THOSE WERE THE TWO WHOERE
AND THE THIRD VICTIMHO IS
STILL ALIVE SUFFERED MULTIPLE
AFTER SHOOTING THOSE VICTIMS,
THE SUSPECT THEN TRAVELED TO
LOCATION NUMBER THREE, A NEARBY
DELICATESSEN THAT'S LOCATED ON
HE EXITED HIS VEHICLE, HE
ENTERED THE DELICATESSEN, AND HE
SHOT AND KILLED 20-YEAR-OLD
HE WAS ALSO A USCB STUDENT.
ISLA VISTA FOOT PATROL DEPUTIES
HEARD THE SHOOTING AND RESPONDED
TO INVESTIGATE THE INCIDENT.
AS THEY ARRIVED AT THE SCENE,
THEY WITNESSED THE SUSPECT WHO
AT THAT TIME WAS UNKNOWN FLEEING
THE SUSPECT CONTINUED TOWARD
LOCATION NUMBER FOUR AT THE TOP
OF THE LOOP WHERE HE FIRED
MULTIPLE ROUNDS AT TWO PEOPLE
WHO WERE ON THE SIDEWALK.
NOW, THE SUSPECT DROVE HIS
VEHICLE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE
ROAD AND IT WAS PARALLEL TO THE
SIDEWALK WHEN HE SHOT FROM THE
THE SUSPECT CONTINUED FORWARD
AND HE TURNED SOUTHBOUND ONTO EL
ENBARCADARO AND THEN TURNED
EASTBOUND ON TO DEL PLAYA TO
LOCATION NUMBER FIVE WHERE HE
BRANDISHED A HANDGUN AT A FEMALE
THE SUSPECT FIRED ADDITIONAL
ROUNDS, TURNED HIS VEHICLE
AROUND, AND STARTED TO TRAVEL
RESPONDING TO THE AREA ON FOOT
WAS THEN TAKEN UNDER FIRE BY THE
THE SHERIFF'S DEPUTY RETURNED
FIRE AND THE SUSPECT DROVE OFF
HE TRAVELED TO LOCATION NUMBER
DEL PLAYA WHERE HE STRUCK AND
INJURED A BICYCLIST WITH HIS
THE SUSPECT THEN CONTINUED WEST
TO CAMINO DEL SUR AND HE TURNED
NORTHBOUND ONTO THAT ROAD.
HE PROCEED TO THE INTERSECTION
OF SABADO DOLTARDE ROAD WHERE HE
THREE OF THE SUSPECTS WERE FIRED
LOCATION, NUMBER EIGHT, THE
ESCADORO AND SAA D O DOLTARDI.
SP SUSPECT DROVE TO LOCATION
NUMBER NINE WHERE HE CAME INTO
CONTACT WITH FOUR SHERIFF'S
DEPUTIES WHO WERE RESPONDING AT
AS THE GUNMAN ACCELERATED PAST
THE DEPUTIES, HE FIRED AT THEM.
THREE OF THE FOUR SHERIFF'S
DEPUTIES WERE ABLE TO RETURN
FIRE AT THE SUSPECT, STRIKING
THE SUSPECT'S VEHICLE AND WE
BELIEVE SHOOTING THE SUSPECT IN
THE SUSPECT DROVE OFF AND AGAIN
TURNED SOUTH ON EL ENBARCA DARE
ROWE AND THEN ON DEL PLAYA WHERE
ACCELERATED HIS VEHICLE TO A
HIGH RATE OF SPEED AND STRIKING
THIS VICTIM WAS THROWN ONTO THE
HOOD OF THE VICTIM'S VEHICLE AND
CAVED IN THE WINDSHIELD OF THAT
THE SUSPECT'S VEHICLE THEN
COLLIDED WITH SEVERAL PARKED C
THE DEPUTIES IMMEDIATELY REMOVED
THE SPRPT FROM THE CAR AND
WAS OBVIOUSLY DEAD WITH AN
APPARENT GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE
SO IN SUMMARY, THERE WERE A
TOTAL OF TEN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS
WITH 12 ACTUAL CRIME SCENES
BETWEEN THOSE LOCATIONS THERE
VICTIMS, AND ONE SUSPECT.
AN ADDITIONAL 13 PEOPLE WERE
INJURED DURING THIS MELEE.
FOUR OF THEM WERE APPARENTLY
INJURED BY THE SUSPECT'S VEHICLE
EIGHT OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS
SUSTAINED GUNSHOT WOUNDS.
AND ONE SUSTAINED A MINOR INJURY
THREE 9 MILLIMETER SEMIAUTOMATIC
HANDGUNS WERE RECOVERED FROM THE
TWO OF THESE WERE SIG SAUER P
226 MODEL HANDGUNS AND THE
REMAING ONE WAS A GLOCK .34
AND WE HAVE IMAGES OF THOSE
TYPES OF FIREARMS THERE AS WELL
AS A PHOTO OF ONE OF THE SUSPECT
WEAPONS FOR YOU ON THE SCREEN.
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE
TOBACCO 'mp; FIREARMS, WE HAVE
DETERMINED THAT ALL OF THESE
WEAPONS WERE LEGALLY PURCHASED
FROM FEDERALLY LICENSED FIREARMS
DEALERS AND THEY WERE ALL
REGISTERED TO THE SUSPECT.
ONE WEAPON WAS PURCHASED IN
GALIDA, ONE IN OXNARD, AND ONE
IN ADDITION TO THE WEAPONS, THE
SUSPECT HAD 34 LOADED TEN-ROUND
MAGAZINES FOR THE SIG SAUER
PISTOLS AND SEVEN TEN-ROUND
MAGAZINES FOR THE GLOCK PISTOL.
THIS INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING
AND WE EXPECT MORE INFORMATION
WILL BE RELEASED WITHIN THE NEXT
AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO
TURN THE PODIUM OVER TO DR.
KAMINSKY FOR SOME COMMENT
REGARDING THE INJURED VICTIMS.
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