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Elliot Rodger: Mourning Campus Hostile Toward Media, As New Details Emerge About Shooter’s Racist Tendencies

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May 28 2014, Published 9:25 a.m. ET

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The fallout in the wake of Elliot Rodger's rampage near the University of California, Santa Barbara continued Wednesday, as the community continued to pick up the pieces after the 22-year-old murdered seven people, including himself, and injured 13 others Friday night in Isla Vista, Calif.

As we previously reported, Rodger — the son of Hunger Games second unit director Peter Rodger — cited his lack of luck in romance in multiple videos and a detailed manifesto, uncovering his twisted thoughts and bloodthirsty intentions prior to the shootings.

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Campus In Shock

Makeshift memorials were omnipresent, classrooms were shuttered and flags flew at half-mast at the University of California, Santa Barbara Tuesday, where the college remained in shock over Friday’s massacre that left six of its’ students dead. UC President Janet Napolitano, in a statement, said that now “is a time for mourning and grieving, and for consoling and supporting each other;” and that “it will take time for our UCSB colleagues to recover and heal from this.” At a memorial later, Napolitano said of the victims: "All died