SB shooter's family called authorities about mental state. At least three of his targets were male.
Elliot Rodger, the suspect in Friday night's deadly rampage near the University of California, Santa Barbara, fatally stabbed three men in his apartment before beginning his drive-by shooting spree on the streets of Isla Vista, where he killed three more people and wounded several others before turning a gun on himself, officials said Saturday night....
The police had crossed paths with Rodger three times before Friday. In one incident, he was involved in an altercation; in another, he accused a roommate of stealing three candles valued at $22.
On April 30, sheriff's deputies visited Rodger at his residence after a family member asked that they check on his welfare. The deputies "found him to be polite and courteous," Brown said, and "determined he did not meet the criteria for an involuntary mental health hold." Rodger told the deputies about troubles in his social life and said he would probably not return to school the following year.
