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Speaker 1: Hmm.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Elliott Roger here, Well, this is my last video.
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Speaker 2: It all has to come to this. Tomorrow is the
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Speaker 2: day of retribution, the day in which I will have
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Speaker 2: my revenge against humanity, against all of you, and run
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Speaker 2: about you will finally see that I am, in truth,
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Speaker 2: the superior one, the true alpha male.
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Speaker 1: M hm.
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Speaker 2: Yes, after I've annihilated every single girl in the sorority house,
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Speaker 2: I'll take to the streets of a La Vista and
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Speaker 2: slam every single person I see there.
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Speaker 3: Multiple bullet shots and bullet holes and windows of the
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Speaker 3: Ivy Deli, which is on par doll. We'll update this
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Speaker 3: information as soon as it is available, but right now
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Speaker 3: law enforcement is too busy at the scene to let
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Speaker 3: us know what happened.
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Speaker 4: Friday, May twenty third, twenty fourteen, a night of horror
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Speaker 4: in the small West coast community of Ayla Vistay.
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Speaker 5: Another ambulas is sixty five five three part all Ivy Deli,
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Speaker 5: another gun property.
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Speaker 4: Using a knife, machetes and three semi automatic handguns, Elliott
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Speaker 4: Roger goes on a killing spree.
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Speaker 6: All of a sudden, we hear like five really loud
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Speaker 6: gun shots.
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Speaker 3: What we do know is one fatality so far, that
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Speaker 3: is on adele Plia Street. We're not sure if that
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Speaker 3: person suffered from gunshot wounds or from something else he shot.
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Speaker 7: And I felt like I just felt the wind like
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Speaker 7: passing right by my face.
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Speaker 8: And I was like, what the f Because as soon
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Speaker 8: as we got up there, we got into silver Grains
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Speaker 8: and a cop came by and like got everyone inside
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Speaker 8: the building saying there.
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Speaker 2: Was a shooter.
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Speaker 7: So I turned around and I started like walking really
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Speaker 7: fast the other way, and I like, I heard a gunshot.
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Speaker 7: So I was like, I had no idea that I
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Speaker 7: was a pistol at all.
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Speaker 4: In the end, six people are murdered, many are injured,
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Speaker 4: and Roger finally turns one of the guns on himself.
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Speaker 4: Roger had planned what he called his day of retribution
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Speaker 4: with great care over many months.
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Speaker 2: You girls have never been attracted to me. I don't
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Speaker 2: know why you girls aren't attracted to me, but I
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Speaker 2: will punish you all for it.
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Speaker 4: This video, filmed by Roger, was uploaded on the day
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Speaker 4: of his murderous rampage. It is the extraordinary final film
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Speaker 4: in a chilling series of videos he posted online.
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Speaker 2: It's an injustice, a crime, because I don't know what
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Speaker 2: you don't see in me. I'm the perfect guy, and
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Speaker 2: yet you throw yourselves at all these obnoxious men instead
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Speaker 2: of me, the supreme Gentleman.
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Speaker 4: As well as the videos, he wrote a long, detailed
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Speaker 4: and deeply disturbing document called My Twisted World, The Story
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Speaker 4: of Elliott Roger. It was emailed to a handful of people,
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Speaker 4: including his mother and father, at nine eighteen pm on
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Speaker 4: the day of the killings.
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Speaker 9: It begins with these lines, humanity. All of my suffering
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Speaker 9: on this world has meaned the hands of humanity, particularly women.
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Speaker 9: It has made me realize just how brutal and twisted
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Speaker 9: humanity is as a species.
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Speaker 4: How does a deeply troubled young man with a growing
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Speaker 4: hatred of the world turn from awkward teenager to ruthless killer.
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Speaker 4: These videos and the manifesto give us the unique opportunity
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Speaker 4: to see inside his mind and examine what went wrong.
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Speaker 4: It is the story of a mass murderer of the
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Speaker 4: digital age, told by the killer himself.
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Speaker 9: This is the story of how I, Elliot Roger, came
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Speaker 9: to be. This is the story of my entire life.
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Speaker 9: It is a dark story of sadness, anger and hatred.
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Speaker 9: In this magnificent story, I will disclose every single detail
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Speaker 9: about my life. This tragedy did not have to happen.
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Speaker 4: Dat Roger had a privileged life. He filmed this video
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Speaker 4: himself sitting in upper class on a flight into Los Angeles.
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Speaker 4: He was born in London in nineteen ninety one, the
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Speaker 4: family moving to la when he was six years old.
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Speaker 4: Both parents worked in the film industry. His father was
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Speaker 4: assistant director on The Hunger Games. They divorced when he
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Speaker 4: was seven. For him, this was a turning point.
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Speaker 9: I was absolutely shocked, outraged, and above all overwhelmed. This
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Speaker 9: was a huge life changing event.
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Speaker 10: Lots of kids have parents who separate, who were divorced,
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Speaker 10: to have acrimonious marriages, who formed new partnerships. All of
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Speaker 10: that is in the normal range. When people react to
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Speaker 10: that as though this is somehow their unique problem, we
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Speaker 10: have to look at why do they think they're so special?
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Speaker 10: In that respect, he.
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Speaker 11: Saw himself as a very rejected person, as though he
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Speaker 11: were actually seeking out his peers, seeking out women, and
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Speaker 11: he was being pushed away. He was being rejected, But
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Speaker 11: in reality, when you talk to people who knew him,
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Speaker 11: he really seemed to be this other type of person
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Speaker 11: where he was not in fact actively seeking out others,
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Speaker 11: he was actually choosing to isolate himself.
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Speaker 4: But Elliot Rodgers's failure to engage with the world soon
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Speaker 4: went beyond the shyness of a child.
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Speaker 12: He didn't make eye contact with anyone. When we think
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Speaker 12: about what we each give each other as social cues
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Speaker 12: to let us know whether or not we want someone
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Speaker 12: to reach out to us or approach us, there's usually
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Speaker 12: social cues body language, eye contact that indicates to another
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Speaker 12: person that I see you, I would like for you
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Speaker 12: to say hello, or I want to say hello to you.
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Speaker 12: And he really didn't do that.
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Speaker 4: His former high school principle was a silent, withdrawn child.
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Speaker 12: What I saw was a really socially awkward young man,
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Speaker 12: very shy, very timid. Didn't really quite know what to
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Speaker 12: say or how to say. Wouldn't have even been able
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Speaker 12: to tell you what his voice sounded like at that time.
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Speaker 12: There was absolutely not one word that he ever expressed.
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Speaker 4: His introduction to sex was through pornography at a cyber cafe.
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Speaker 9: I saw an older teenager watching pornography. I saw in
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Speaker 9: detail a video of a man having sex with a
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Speaker 9: hot girl. Finding out about sex is one of the
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Speaker 9: things that truly destroyed my entire life. Sex. The word
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Speaker 9: fills me with hate.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Elliott Roger, here right now. I'm just taking a
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Speaker 2: walk through the park. It's a really nice secluded are Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I'm just contemplating about my life and how unfair it's
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Speaker 2: been lately. Well, it's been unfair for the last eight years,
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Speaker 2: ever since I hit puberty.
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Speaker 4: In making his videos, Roger returned several times to the
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Speaker 4: places that were special to him as a child.
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Speaker 2: And here I am at Serrania Park, the most significant
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Speaker 2: place of my childhood. My parents used to take me
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Speaker 2: here when I was six years old. I have some
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Speaker 2: very happy memories here. That's where my father taught me
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Speaker 2: how to swing. It still looks exactly the same. He's
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Speaker 2: all right, is he friendly?
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Speaker 13: But he's a little.
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Speaker 2: That's okay.
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Speaker 4: For much of his life, Elliott Roger lived in a
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Speaker 4: cyber world, his online conversations reflecting a growing hatred and anger.
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Speaker 4: In his final days and months, he was immersed in
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Speaker 4: online forums and obsessed with computer games.
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Speaker 10: Well, for everyone, playing games is a refuge from the
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Speaker 10: real world and the responsibilities that it carries. Most people
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Speaker 10: have no trouble separating fantasy from reality.
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Speaker 14: On the other hand.
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Speaker 10: If you immerse someone in a chat room or forum
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Speaker 10: in which everyone's sharing the same view and taking turns
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Speaker 10: making extremist statements, that will only make matters worse. If
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Speaker 10: you want to get worse at what you're angry about,
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Speaker 10: go join other angry people.
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Speaker 2: I'm just sitting in my car right now, enjoying the
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Speaker 2: view of the beat, and my view has been ruined
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Speaker 2: by this site. Right here in front of me, sitting
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Speaker 2: right there on that bench is a young couple.
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Speaker 4: Young people together triggered intense anger in Roger. The couple
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Speaker 4: he filmed here may well have had a close call.
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Speaker 2: They're kissing right now. It's torture for me to watch,
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Speaker 2: but I have.
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Speaker 9: To do this.
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Speaker 15: I've seen the video that he made of that where
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Speaker 15: he's focusing on this couple on a bench, and to
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Speaker 15: be absolutely honest, when I saw that, I half expected
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Speaker 15: him to leave the camera on the dashboard and to
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Speaker 15: see him get out of the car and head out.
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Speaker 15: I mean, that couple were incredibly lucky.
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Speaker 2: I can only imagine the heavenly things they'll be doing
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Speaker 2: together when they go back home tonight. It's not fair.
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Speaker 2: Life is not fair.
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Speaker 4: Towards the end of twenty twelve, Roger decides on revenge,
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Speaker 4: especially against young couples. He plans it with meticulous care.
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Speaker 4: Just before Christmas, he buys his first gun.
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Speaker 9: I decided to purchase the Glack thirty four semi automatic pistol,
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Speaker 9: an efficient and highly accurate weapon. I brought it back
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Speaker 9: to my room and felt a new sense of power.
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Speaker 15: Roger's willingness to conduct the Day of Retribution shows that
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Speaker 15: he's got an intractable personality. He stockpiles ammunition, he buys guns.
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Speaker 15: He never shows any flexibility. All he thinks about is
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Speaker 15: how am I going to commit this spree.
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Speaker 4: Friday, May twenty third, twenty fourteen, the day of Retribution arrives.
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Speaker 4: The killing will soon begin. His last video is about
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Speaker 4: to be released to the world.
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Speaker 2: You deserve to be annihilated, and I'll give that to you.
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Speaker 2: You never showed me any mercy, and so I will
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Speaker 2: show you none. I hate all of you. Humanity is
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Speaker 2: a disgusting, wretched, depraved species. Hey Elliott Roger here, Oh
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Speaker 2: check it out. There's me, ah my fabulousness. Oh yeah.
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Speaker 15: When you get to a certain level of narcissistic behavior,
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Speaker 15: it could also enter into what we call a personality disorder.
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Speaker 15: This is where an individual's way of thinking and feeling
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Speaker 15: and interacting with the world is dominated by their narcissism.
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Speaker 2: I desire girls. I'm sexually attracted to girls.
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Speaker 15: He can't cope with being rejected.
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Speaker 2: The girls are not sexually attracted to me.
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Speaker 15: He blames the other people around him because he can't
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Speaker 15: possibly be at fault.
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Speaker 2: Here's a major problem with that major problem. That's a
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Speaker 2: problem that I intend to rectify.
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Speaker 15: So when you take the narcissism, you take the blaming
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Speaker 15: of the people, style of coping, and someone who feels
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Speaker 15: they fall in short of where they should be in life.
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Speaker 15: Those tend to be three of the strongest factors we
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Speaker 15: find in Spreae killings.
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Speaker 10: What comes through loud and clear here is his detachment.
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Speaker 10: His tone during this is a cold, instructional, calculated tone.
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Speaker 2: In all my magnificence and power, I will not let
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Speaker 2: this fly. It's an injustice that needs to be dealt with.
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Speaker 10: There's no emotion in his voice. It's cruel He's detached
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Speaker 10: from it in his own emotions, and yet convey cruelty
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Speaker 10: as he describes his plot. And he does that in
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Speaker 10: the most distant, cold way.
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Speaker 9: Ever since I was seventeen, I often fantasized about becoming
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Speaker 9: powerful and inflicting suffering upon everyone who has wronged me
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Speaker 9: in the past.
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Speaker 4: Ila Vista on the Californian Coast is a lively student community.
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Speaker 4: That's why Elliott Roger went there, especially for the girls.
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Speaker 4: His main subject was English, though by spring twenty fourteen
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Speaker 4: he abandoned all learning. By then, his obsession was revenge
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Speaker 4: and retribution.
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Speaker 9: I will arm myself with deadly weapons and wager war
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Speaker 9: against all women and the men they are attracted to,
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Speaker 9: and I will slaughter them like the animals they are.
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Speaker 4: Unwittingly, his two flatmates became part of his deadly plan.
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Speaker 4: They'd moved into his apartment in autumn twenty thirteen. James
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Speaker 4: Hong studied computer engineering, so did his close friend David Wang.
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Speaker 4: Both were twenty. They had no idea Elliott Roger was
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Speaker 4: planning their deaths.
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Speaker 9: The first people I would have to kill are my
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Speaker 9: two housemates to secure the entire apartment for myself as
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Speaker 9: my personal torture and killing chamber.
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Speaker 4: May twenty third, twenty fourteen, arrives. Elliot Roger unleashes the
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Speaker 4: horror he has been preparing his flatmates, James Hong and
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Speaker 4: David Wang, are stabbed repeatedly. For David's mother, the grief
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Speaker 4: is overwhelming.
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Speaker 16: When I heard that news, I was I cannot functioning.
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Speaker 16: I just shaking cold down to on the on the floor.
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Speaker 16: I just I cannot. I just it's nightmare.
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Speaker 4: His mother and father are left only with memories.
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Speaker 16: I love my son at the same time, we're like friends.
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Speaker 16: We talk about everything like he's my protector. It was
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Speaker 16: also my joy because he likes holding my hand, like
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Speaker 16: has his arms around my shoulder, and like laughing with me.
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Speaker 16: Whenever I will think what happened to David, I have
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Speaker 16: hard time to bread. I just don't want to know.
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Speaker 16: I just want to remember my Daddy's so joyful, peaceful.
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Speaker 4: But it's not over yet. There is a third person
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Speaker 4: in the apartment, a friend of Roger's flatmate's.
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Speaker 12: There was never a time, in working with him or
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Speaker 12: knowing him, that I ever felt like his inability to
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Speaker 12: interact socially, or inability to interact in the world outside of, say,
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Speaker 12: his family, would ever have led me to believe that
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Speaker 12: this kind of rage was building inside of him.
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Speaker 2: Never I see so many hot, beautiful blonde girls walking
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Speaker 2: with absolute stupid, obnoxious looking douchebags.
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Speaker 12: You know, sometimes when you look with twenty twenty, you go, ah,
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Speaker 12: now that makes sense, Now I get it. That is
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Speaker 12: not there with Elliott, not one iota.
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Speaker 4: Coming from a comfortable background meant and status were important.
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Speaker 15: He had a lot of life options. He was at college,
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Speaker 15: he had a moneyed background, and he had a certain
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Speaker 15: element of privilege.
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Speaker 4: In his narrow world, Roger believes he's the perfect catch
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Speaker 4: and that should guarantee him success with girls.
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Speaker 17: He considers himself incredibly superior. He talks all the way
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Speaker 17: through his manifesto that he is the one true gentleman.
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Speaker 17: He is the alpha male, He's wonderful and amazing, and
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Speaker 17: he seems to expect that women should just throw themselves
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Speaker 17: at him. So he's got this really insular, introverted view
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Speaker 17: that he is brilliant and perfect and all of the
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Speaker 17: fault seems to lie with the individuals outside of him.
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Speaker 4: In his videos, Elliot Roger often harks back to his childhood,
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Speaker 4: the only time he claims to experience any happiness.
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Speaker 2: I can hear some kids playing down there now, I
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Speaker 2: hear those sounds. Reminds me of the days of my
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Speaker 2: childhood were the best times of my life. I wish
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Speaker 2: I could be a kid again.
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Speaker 4: Very early in his manifesto, Elliott Roger identifies the feelings
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Speaker 4: that will trigger the tragedy.
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Speaker 9: Jealousy and envy. Those are two feelings that would dominate
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Speaker 9: my entire life and bring me immense pain.
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Speaker 4: Especially when he became an adolescent.
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Speaker 2: When you hit puberty, your life either becomes heaven on
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Speaker 2: Earth or living hell. It all depends on how many
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Speaker 2: girls like you. No girls liked me, and I hate
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Speaker 2: them all for it.
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Speaker 4: His lack of success with girls was a constant theme
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Speaker 4: of his teenage years. When he moved to college at
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Speaker 4: E La Vista, he hoped that would change.
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Speaker 2: I'm twenty two years old, still a virgin. I've never
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Speaker 2: even kissed a girl.
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Speaker 4: Constant disappointment turned to something much more sinister.
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Speaker 9: I will destroy all women because I can never have them.
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Speaker 9: I will make them suffer for rejecting me.
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Speaker 4: Spring twenty thirteen, he buys another handgun. This time it's
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Speaker 4: a sig sour P two two six, more expensive and
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Speaker 4: more powerful than the glock.
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Speaker 9: I was now armed. Who's the alpha male now, bitches?
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Speaker 4: He becomes a regular on internet forums for involuntary celibates
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Speaker 4: known as incels. Here he appears to amplify and reinforce
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Speaker 4: his extreme views.
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Speaker 17: These individuals get angry, they go to this environment. They
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Speaker 17: you know, they air their they see how angry they are,
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Speaker 17: and it's like an echo chamber gets louder and louder,
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Speaker 17: they get more extreme. So what may have started off
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Speaker 17: at the beginning is a bit of a grumble and
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Speaker 17: a complaint. After a period of time, it becomes a
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Speaker 17: full on hatred that these individuals are engaging in on
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Speaker 17: a daily basis.
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Speaker 9: Many of them share my hatred of women, though unlike me,
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Speaker 9: they would be too cowardly to act on it.
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Speaker 4: On July twenty, twenty thirteen, just four days before his birthday,
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Speaker 4: Elliot Roger sets out determined to have sex. He wants
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Speaker 4: to lose his virginity before he turns twenty two.
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Speaker 9: I was giving the female gender one last chance to
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Speaker 9: provide me with the pleasures I deserved from them.
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Speaker 10: If he hadn't focused on the issue of not being
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Speaker 10: able to find a sexual partner or sexual rejection, he
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Speaker 10: would have found another way to characterize this. There would
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Speaker 10: have been something else that was unfulfilling.
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Speaker 4: Instead, he gets so drunk he insults a group of
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Speaker 4: girls at a party and starts a fight, but gets
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Speaker 4: badly hurt. He manages to make it home, where one
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Speaker 4: of his neighbors spends three hours with him.
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Speaker 2: I would have to talk to him for five minutes
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Speaker 2: and he would reply with one sentence, and then I
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Speaker 2: talked to him for another five minutes and he'd give
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Speaker 2: out another sentence.
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Speaker 9: I actually gave them all one last chance to accept me,
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Speaker 9: to give me a reason not to hate them, and
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Speaker 9: they devastatingly blew it back in my face.
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Speaker 2: He was so unbelievably emotional. I distinctly remember him saying.
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Speaker 18: I'm going to kill all of those mothers, and I'm
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Speaker 18: gonna kill myself.
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Speaker 9: I gave the world too many chances. It was time
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Speaker 9: for retribution.
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Speaker 2: I don't understand you girls. It's like your sexual attraction
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Speaker 2: is flawed, it's perverted.
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Speaker 4: In April twenty fourteen, he uploads some of his video logues.
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Speaker 2: You should be attracted to guys like me, beautiful magnificent guys.
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Speaker 4: On Wednesday, April thirtieth, twenty fourteen, the police are called
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Speaker 4: to his apartment. The police report says they were alerted
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Speaker 4: by a mental health worker. Who had been contacted by
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Speaker 4: someone who said they were a friend of Elliott Roger.
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Speaker 4: This is just three weeks before he takes his revenge.
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Speaker 15: There is some evidence I think that shows the depth
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Speaker 15: of his psychopathology here. When the police had been to
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Speaker 15: his property. In the reports, they said that he was
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Speaker 15: a pleasant young man. He was a delightful individual, slightly
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Speaker 15: shy and socially awkward.
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Speaker 9: If they had demanded to search my room, that would
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Speaker 9: have ended everything. For a few horrible seconds, I thought
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Speaker 9: it was all over.
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Speaker 15: Now we know that psychopaths are very good. They're very
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Speaker 15: adept at portraying different personalities to different people.
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Speaker 4: The police leave without finding the weapons or the manifesto
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Speaker 4: that reveals how he plans to use them.
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Speaker 9: On the day before the day of retribution, I will
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Speaker 9: start the first phase of my vengeance silently killing as
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Speaker 9: many people as I can around a La Vista by
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Speaker 9: luring them into my apartment through some form of trickery.
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Speaker 4: Roger takes down his video logs. They don't go up
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Speaker 4: again until the early hours of May twenty third, twenty fourteen.
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Speaker 4: After killing his two flatmates, Elliot Roger continues with his
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Speaker 4: planned day of retribution. A knife machetes and a hammer
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Speaker 4: are found at the scene. His flatmate's friend, George Chen
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Speaker 4: is also in the apartment nighteen studying computer science, and
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Speaker 4: he spends much of his spare time on charity work.
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Speaker 4: His father remembers their last phone call, just nine days
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Speaker 4: before his son is murdered.
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Speaker 19: So well, lads to think that people will hang up.
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Speaker 19: I remember I said, Okay, George, Daddy always love you.
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Speaker 19: So he also I love Marma, I love Daddy. So
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Speaker 19: this time I say, Georgia, I love you very much.
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Speaker 6: Having George as our son is is the biggest gift
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Speaker 6: that God give us.
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Speaker 1: It's George is.
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Speaker 15: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: We are very thankful to him to be our kid,
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Speaker 6: and I think that's the best thing when we think
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Speaker 6: about him.
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Speaker 4: At nine seventeen pm on May twenty third, twenty fourteen,
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Speaker 4: Elliott Roger uploads his final video. He also emails the
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Speaker 4: manifesto to a handful of people, including his parents and therapist.
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Speaker 4: When they read it, they alert the police, but already
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Speaker 4: it's too late.
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Speaker 2: You will finally see that I am, in truth, the
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Speaker 2: superior one, the true alpha male.
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Speaker 4: Minutes later, he leaves the house. The killing has only
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Speaker 4: just begun.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Elliott Roger. Here, I'm up in the hills in
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Speaker 2: Montecito right now. It's truly a beautiful day. But as
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Speaker 2: I've always said, a beautiful environment is the darkest hell
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Speaker 2: if you have to experience it all alone. And sadly,
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Speaker 2: I've been alone for a very long time.
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Speaker 4: Soon after uploading this video, Elliott Roger initiates his day
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Speaker 4: of retribution. Three men, including his two flapmates, have been
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Speaker 4: stabbed and are lying dead in the apartment, but the
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Speaker 4: killing is not over yet. There is more to come.
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Speaker 4: He is about to go on the rampage.
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Speaker 2: I hate all of you. I can't wait to give
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Speaker 2: you exactly what you deserve, utter annihilation, not fire.
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Speaker 3: I'm live an Eilavista on Ellen Barcadero. Multiple people injured,
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Speaker 3: multiple bullet holes. We'll update this information as soon as
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Speaker 3: it is available.
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Speaker 8: The shots were still coming through. He was still shooting
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Speaker 8: at us, shooting inside the store.
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Speaker 4: Roger's failure with women is at the heart of his
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Speaker 4: rage and frustration. They are his next target.
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Speaker 9: The second phase will represent my war on women. I
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Speaker 9: will punish all females for the crime of depriving me
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Speaker 9: of sex. I will attack the very girls who represent
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Speaker 9: everything I hate in the female gender.
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Speaker 4: He has carefully researched his next victims, an exclusive club
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Speaker 4: for women students, a sorority house named using the Greek
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Speaker 4: letters Alpha Fi.
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Speaker 2: I am going to enter the hardest sorority house of UCSB,
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Speaker 2: and I will slaughter every single spoiled, stuck up, blonde
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Speaker 2: sluck I see inside there.
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Speaker 9: The sorority with the most beautiful girls is Alpha Fi Sorority.
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Speaker 9: I know exactly where their house is. I have sat
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Speaker 9: outside it in my car to stalk them many times.
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Speaker 10: One of the common features of mass murder that's clearly
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Speaker 10: true of Elliott Rogers is that they collect injustices. Elliot
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Speaker 10: goes on at length about his sexual frustration, his inability
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Speaker 10: to have a sexual relationship. He makes it the centerpiece
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Speaker 10: of his quest, so the theme becomes payback and revenge
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Speaker 10: for this grudge about perceived injustices.
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Speaker 11: One of the themes that seems to emerge is this
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Speaker 11: sort of paranoid or persecutory thinking, thinking that the world.
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Speaker 13: Is out to get him. You know, he would make
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Speaker 13: statements like how dare you not accepting? Or how dare
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Speaker 13: you not recognize my magnificence. He saw the world through
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Speaker 13: this hostile lens, where even benign behavior from other people
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Speaker 13: was seen as having hostile and.
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Speaker 4: Head At about nine twenty five PM, with three semi
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Speaker 4: automatic weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, Elliott Roger
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Speaker 4: drives the short distance to the sorority building. Police believe
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Speaker 4: he hammers on the door of the Alpha Pi sorority house,
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Speaker 4: but no one answers. He gets back into the car
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Speaker 4: and spots a new target. Three women walking across the street.
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Speaker 4: Veronica Weiss, a nineteen year old undergraduate, and Katie Cooper,
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Speaker 4: a twenty two year old art history student, are killed instantly.
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Speaker 4: Bianca de Coke is hit five times but survives.
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Speaker 5: Jobs for an area del Nortay.
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Speaker 10: He can still achieve the mission of killing the beautiful
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Speaker 10: people who reject him, even if he can't get through
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Speaker 10: the door to kill the group he originally said he would.
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Speaker 10: He doesn't care about his promise to history. He cares
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Speaker 10: about expressing his rage and ending his pain. Revenge is
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Speaker 10: the most common theme among the mass killers. I think
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Speaker 10: Elliot Rogers chose Friday night because that's when lots of
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Speaker 10: young people would be out having a good time. Unlike him.
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Speaker 4: A few blocks away, Ivy deli is busy with weekend customers.
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Speaker 4: At nine thirty pm, Rogers arrives outside and takes aim
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Speaker 4: from the car. Customers, still with goods in their hands,
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Speaker 4: dive for cover as bullets fly over their heads. Dylan
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Speaker 4: Fontillas is one of them.
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Speaker 8: Within about a minute, that's when I had walked in.
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Speaker 8: First two shots rang through instantly. That actually broke the glass,
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Speaker 8: and that's when we are so scrambling for our life.
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Speaker 1: Pretty much.
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Speaker 4: One girl and Dylan are inches from death as a
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Speaker 4: bullet whistles past them, shattering the glass door of the refrigerator.
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Speaker 8: I didn't so much like hear the gun at first,
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Speaker 8: but I heard the glass breaking, just the shatter of
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Speaker 8: the glass.
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Speaker 4: Just off to the right of the CCTV stands Chris Martinez,
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Speaker 4: a twenty year old who planned to be a lawyer.
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Speaker 4: He is cut down in a hail of bullets.
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Speaker 8: I had just turned I saw him fall, and I
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Speaker 8: kind of like tucked my hand out of my head
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Speaker 8: and turned down and duck behind the counter.
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Speaker 4: As Chris slumps to the floor, the young woman who
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Speaker 4: was almost hit reaches out to help him.
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Speaker 8: We sat there and watched the skin had bleed to death.
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Speaker 8: He was no less than two feet away from me.
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Speaker 4: Still in the car. Roger's shooting spree is far from over.
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Speaker 20: He casually drove away, which was very surprising.
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Speaker 18: You didn't hear any You didn't hear any any tire
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Speaker 18: screeching or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: It was actually a very calm.
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Speaker 8: I heard that he was a fairly well known customer there,
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Speaker 8: so he knows that that's a place to go if
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Speaker 8: he was looking for a lot of people.
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Speaker 10: People might wonder about the emotions of the killer. There's
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Speaker 10: not a lot of emotion other than anger. There's not
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Speaker 10: much fulfillment for them. The expression of the anger doesn't
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Speaker 10: really make them feel relief or feel better about it.
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Speaker 5: Black And one way that I care now.
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Speaker 10: What they recognize is there's a sense of finality that
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Speaker 10: this pain of the anger, the pain of isolation, is
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Speaker 10: going to end, because soon they will.
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Speaker 5: Be dead an god god fire.
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Speaker 4: In a few short, brutal minutes, Roger has shot and
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Speaker 4: killed three young people, but there is more carnage to come.
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Speaker 4: He is about to use his car as a weapon.
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Speaker 2: If I can't have you, girls, I will destroy you.
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Speaker 2: You denied me a happy life, and in turn, I
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Speaker 2: will deny all of you life, m It's only fair.
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Speaker 4: Elliott Roger has now murdered six students. Three young men
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Speaker 4: stabbed to death in his own apartment, two young women
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Speaker 4: shot dead outside the Alpha Fi sorority house, another critically injured.
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Speaker 4: One young man is shot and killed in the Delhi.
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Speaker 4: Roger drives the streets with three guns, firing at random.
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Speaker 4: The police scramble to stop him.
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Speaker 5: Turning area Del Norte and Pard we're getting further.
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Speaker 2: I'll take to the streets of Ayla Vista and slay
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Speaker 2: every single person I see there.
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Speaker 4: There's panic as Roger opens fire on students outside the
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Speaker 4: seven eleven store.
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Speaker 2: I hate all of you. Humanity is a disgusting, wretched,
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Speaker 2: depraved species.
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Speaker 4: The moment is filmed on a smartphone from an apartment
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Speaker 4: as people died for cover in a pizza restaurant.
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Speaker 9: I will then make my way to Dell Plia, splattering
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Speaker 9: as many of my enemies as I can.
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Speaker 14: And.
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Speaker 4: Student Sierra Schwartz has a terrifying encounter.
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Speaker 7: He like lifted up like a little black pistol and
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Speaker 7: like I just thought it was like an airsoft gun
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Speaker 7: or something. So I was like, I was like heay,
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Speaker 7: Like what up? And I turned around and I started
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Speaker 7: walking the other way, and then like he shot, I
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Speaker 7: just felt the wind like pass right by my face,
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Speaker 7: and I.
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Speaker 4: Was like what the.
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Speaker 9: I will continue down tow PLI destroying everything and every one.
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Speaker 6: Part of the center with a headery the fire and delcer.
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Speaker 4: As police find the injured and dead. They called desperately
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Speaker 4: for medics, but the ambulances are being held back until
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Speaker 4: the shooting is over.
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Speaker 5: Point three black and one way going into North medic here.
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Speaker 5: Now another got job, not fire, not fire.
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Speaker 4: The police fire back, hitting Roger in the hip through
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Speaker 4: the car door, but he accelerates away.
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Speaker 9: When I see the first police car come to their rescue,
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Speaker 9: I will drive away as fast as I can, shooting
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Speaker 9: and ramming anyone in my path until I find a
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Speaker 9: suitable place to finally end my life.
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Speaker 18: I jumped on the sidewalk and I see a man
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Speaker 18: na bmw is body inside the windshield, glass broken everywhere,
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Speaker 18: and now he's under feet that way, at least his
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Speaker 18: body carried on with the car.
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Speaker 8: It was he went.
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Speaker 21: He went down a few blocks.
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Speaker 4: Roger doesn't get far. Barely twelve minutes after he begins shooting.
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Speaker 4: He crashes into parked cars.
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Speaker 5: And then when I'm out there.
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Speaker 9: To end my life, I will shoot myself in the
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Speaker 9: head with two of my handguns simultaneously. I will not
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Speaker 9: suffer being captured and sent to prison.
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Speaker 5: I partner the.
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Speaker 7: Well.
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Speaker 4: The killing is over. Six young lives brutally ended, thirteen
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Speaker 4: others wounded. The following morning, the police discover the grim
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Speaker 4: scene at Elliott Rodgers apartment.
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Speaker 21: The three male victims were apparently stabbed repeatedly with sharp objects,
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Speaker 21: and it was a It was a pretty horrific crime scene.
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Speaker 9: Why do things have to be this way? I'm sure
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Speaker 9: that is the question everyone will be asking after the
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Speaker 9: day of retribution is over.
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Speaker 4: Within hours, his final video and the manifesto are being
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Speaker 4: watched and read around the world as people tried to
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Speaker 4: comprehend what he has done.
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Speaker 8: And he lived like a twenty second walk from my house.
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Speaker 8: And I've never seen the kid.
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Speaker 2: In my life.
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Speaker 8: He went to the same school, we did, all the
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Speaker 8: same layces as. But I you know, snoother face in
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Speaker 8: the crowd.
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Speaker 12: Why didn't he tell us? Why didn't he reach out
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Speaker 12: and trust one person to say, wow, I'd really like
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Speaker 12: to meet a girl. But he never articulated that. He
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Speaker 12: never indicated in any way that he was troubled by
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Speaker 12: it or he was angry about it.
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Speaker 4: Along with his horrifying YouTube posts, Rogers written in his.
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Speaker 3: One and forty one page manifesto.
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Speaker 4: Across social networks and mainstream media, the soul searching begins
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Speaker 4: from the passionate to the tasteless, he.
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Speaker 3: Said, that's where the murders would begin.
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Speaker 4: First with his others in with trickery, knocking them out
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Speaker 4: with the ham Everyone has an opinion. I literally don't
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Speaker 4: know how you can't see it as misogynistic, how you
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Speaker 4: could see it's anything other than misogyny.
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Speaker 2: So my view on Elliot Roger is that he's a hypocritical, idiot,
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Speaker 2: narcissistic psychopath.
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Speaker 4: A few postings on the chat rooms Elliott Roger visited
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Speaker 4: hail him as a hero, but they are quickly taken down.
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Speaker 4: Other sites disappear but come back.
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Speaker 11: Perhaps Elliott's attempts to develop these YouTube videos and communicate
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Speaker 11: with others was really his way of making those types
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Speaker 11: of interactions controllable, perhaps even predict all on his terms.
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Speaker 10: There's no question in my mind that in a society
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Speaker 10: that shared data, that had a good protocol for law
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Speaker 10: enforcement to make use of that data and that had
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Speaker 10: adequate mental health resources, such crimes could be prevented.
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Speaker 15: He really sees this as a historical document of some significance.
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Speaker 15: I think that plays into the disordered thinking that he
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Speaker 15: had and the narcissistic elements about his own importance in
43:32
Speaker 15: the world.
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Speaker 4: Elliott's parents, Chen and Peter Roger issue a public statement.
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Speaker 22: We are crying in pain for the victims and their families.
43:46
Speaker 22: It breaks our hearts on a level that we didn't
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Speaker 22: think possible. The feeling of knowing that it was our
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Speaker 22: son's actions that caused the tragedy can only be described
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Speaker 22: as hell on earth.
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Speaker 4: Far from destroying humanity, as Elliot, Roger intended, his savage
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Speaker 4: act serves to bring the people of Ila Vista together.
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Speaker 20: During times like this, it's very easy to blame people
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Speaker 20: and organizations, and it's very easy to lay blame on
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Speaker 20: those who we feel are responsible in one way or another.
44:23
Speaker 20: But if we can bring ourselves to propagate hope and
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Speaker 20: kindness and peace and understanding, then maybe we can move
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Speaker 20: forward from this event and shape a more positive community
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Speaker 20: for us.
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Speaker 4: The anguished voices of the other victims, the families begin
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Speaker 4: to be heard.
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Speaker 14: Why did Chris die? Chris died because of craven, irresponsible
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Speaker 14: politicians and the NRA. They talk about gun rights, What
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Speaker 14: about Chris's right to live? When will this insanity stop?
45:17
Speaker 14: When will enough people say stop this madness?
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Speaker 21: We don't have to live like this.
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Speaker 7: Too many have died.
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Speaker 14: We should say to ourselves, not one more, thank you.
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Speaker 15: That's it.
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Speaker 16: We're heartbroken, we are end of the world. We won't David,
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Speaker 16: James and Judge they're the last one. We don't want
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Speaker 16: this happen again.
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Speaker 1: We have been working so hard that we try to
45:46
Speaker 1: build a better future for our children, and and when
45:49
Speaker 1: I lost George, all these things seems meaningless. So I
45:55
Speaker 1: from the bottom of the height, I've tried to see
45:57
Speaker 1: what we can do to prevent this from happening.
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Speaker 23: And wake up America, because this can come to your
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Speaker 23: town and it can affect you, and what I lost
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Speaker 23: is irreplaceable. It would they would do anything anything to
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Speaker 23: have my son back, but you know that's not gonna happen.
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Speaker 23: So I've got to make something good come out of this,
46:21
Speaker 23: and I will do everything within my power to try
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Speaker 23: to make it stop.
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