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Gunman vowed to ‘punish’ sorority before shooting

“Blond sorority sluts” must die, “virgin” Elliot Rodger vowed on video before slaughtering six innocents and injuring seven more in a Friday night drive-by shooting spree in California.

“On the day of retribution, I am going to enter the hottest sorority house of UCSB,” seethed Rodger, 22. “And I will slaughter every single spoiled, stuck-up, blond slut I see inside there.”

The chilling video was posted online just one day before Rodger opened fire along the blocks west of the University of California at Santa Barbara campus, near his own less-prominent school, Santa Barbara City College.

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“I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it,” he intoned into the camera.

Rodger, the son of a minor Hollywood director and a self-described virgin who’d never even kissed a girl, made good on his threat, visiting the Alpha Phi ­sorority house Friday night and pounding on their door.

“They are all spoiled, heartless, wicked bitches,” he wrote of his “hot, beautiful blond” targets in a 140-page “manifesto” he’d sent to local news media.

“He was, like, knocking on the door really loudly, and girls were kind of confused and didn’t know whether they should open the door or not, and they decided not to,” a 21-year-old Alpha Phi member told The Post, asking that her name not be revealed.

“It’s a miracle no one opened up,” another Alpha Phi member said.

Rodger instead fired away outside the sorority next door, killing Delta Delta Delta members Katie Cooper and Veronika Weiss, 19, officials said.

He then hopped into his shiny black BMW sports car, running down two bicyclists and firing out his window, killing UCSB student Chris Martinez, 20.

Rodger smiled broadly as he opened fire on his “enemies.”

“He was aiming into the store — it was like the kid thought he was in a movie,” witness Dylan Fontillas, 20, remembered Saturday.

“He had this fake smile on his face, like he was acting a part,” he said. “The kid was smirking and looked like he was having a good time.”

The rampage ended with Rodger slumped dead behind the wheel after a shootout with cops.

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“It would appear he took his own life,” said Sheriff Bill Brown.

Inside his car, cops found three 9mm handguns: two Sig Sauers and a Glock, plus 400 remaining rounds of ammo, Brown said.

“Who’s the alpha male now, bitches,” Rodger wrote of his “new sense of power” he after arming himself.

“I needed to buy a third handgun, just in case one of them jams,” he explained.

“I needed two working handguns at the same time, as that was how I planned to commit suicide; with two simultaneous shots to the head.”

Only when cops entered Rodger’s nearby apartment did they find his first victims: three multiply-stabbed men whose names were withheld Saturday night, pending family notification.

It remained unclear Saturday night if any of the three were Rodger’s two roommates. He had written in the manifesto that he would “have to kill” them so he could turn the place into “my personal torture and killing chamber.”

“I will start luring people into my apartment, knock them out with a hammer, and slit their throats. I will torture some of the good looking people before I kill them, assuming that the good looking ones had the best sex lives.”

The self-obsessed killer filled his Facebook page with 39 pouty self-portraits, and described himself at length in his blog as “magnificent,” and a “sophisticated, polite gentleman.”

Rodger was a privileged son of Holly­wood, whose father, Peter Rodger, was second-unit director of the first “Hunger Games” film.

WARNING: The video below is extremely disturbing.

The father and other family members had warned cops after seeing some of Elliott’s creepy, suicide-and-murder-referencing videos online weeks before the spree, the family’s lawyer said.

But Santa Barbara sheriff’s deputies interviewed Elliott and found him to be no threat.

Elliott was a “perfectly polite, kind and wonderful human” without a history of guns, said family lawyer Alan Shifman.

Santa Barbara Sheriff Bill Brown now calls the attack “the work of a madman.”

A Santa Barbara resident, Elliott lived his first five years in the UK, he wrote. He was “Eurasian,” he explained, noting with apparent pride that his father is of British descent and his mother of Asian descent, he posted online.

But in a 140-page “manifesto” he ­released shortly before the shootings to several Santa Barbara-area news outlets, Rodger railed against his family, threatened his stepmother Soumaya, his full sister, Georgia, and his young half-brother, Jazz.

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It was unclear Saturday night whether they were among the victims.

“He will become a popular kid who gets all the girls. Girls will love him. He will become one of my enemies,” Rodger raged in his manifesto of his little brother.

“All I would need to do is think about all of the hurtful things she had said to me in that past as I plunge my knife into her neck,” he wrote of the stepmom.

His main targets? “All you girls” who rejected him and “all you sexually active men,” he said in his “retribution” video.

“I hate you. I hate all of you,” he intoned into the camera. “I can’t wait to give you exactly what you deserve — utter annihilation.”

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Authorities were slow to release details about the victims, although one anguished dad told reporters that his 20-year-old son had been slain in the rampage.

“When will this insanity stop?” Richard Martinez cried outside the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office of his slain son, Chris.

“Too many have died,” Martinez said, nearly collapsing with grief. “We should say to ourselves, ‘Not one more.’ ”

Rodger appears to have sharpened his anger last year on the online forum PUAhate, where lonely men who dub themselves “incels” — involuntary celibates — discuss their disdain for “pick-up artists.”

There, the gunman fantasized in 2013 of releasing “a virus that would kill every single man on Earth, except for yourself . . . You would be able to have your pick of any beautiful woman you want, as well as having dealt vengeance on the men who took them from you. Imagine how satisfying that would be.”

After the shooting, other members on the site called him a “hero,” the Daily Mail reported.