Chilling surveillance video of a California rampage shows the moment one of the victims was murdered in a deli Friday night — and the terrifying chaos inside the store as the hate-spewing, loser gunman opened fire.
The scene was the I.V. Deli Mart in Goleta, Calif., where deranged “virgin” student Elliot Rodger, 22, resumed his killing spree after stabbing to death three men in his dorm room and fatally shooting two young women as part of his retribution-for-rejection vengeance plot.
The twisted scheme took Rodger to the unsuspecting deli, where he opened fire at the people inside — killing 20-year-old Christopher Ross Michael-Martinez, officials said.
Michaels-Martinez, 20, was the last of six people Rodger shot during a shooting spree that also injured 13. Rodger, the son of a minor Hollywood director, Peter Rodger, ultimately killed himself after being wounded in a shootout with police.
CNN, which aired the video, doesn’t show show Michael-Martinez being killed, but the recording does show glass being shattered and customers scattering for cover — except one brave woman who stays in the line of fire to help the fallen victim and pull out her cell phone to call for help.
“Chris was a really great kid,” Michaels-Martinez’s father said at a news conference. “Ask anyone who knew him. His death has left our family lost and broken.”
As the distraught father shared his grief over the tragedy and railed against the society of guns that he said contributed to the deaths, the gunman’s family expressed its regret over Rodger’s killing spree.
“The Rodger family offers their deepest compassion and sympathy to the families involved in this terrible tragedy,” the killer’s father said in a statement issued by his lawyer, Alan Shifman. “We are experiencing the most inconceivable pain, and our hearts go out to everybody involved.”
The family said Rodger had been diagnosed at an earlier age with Asperger’s Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism, which left him with difficulties interacting socially.
Even as Rodger was in the midst of his deadly rampage, his parents were frantically trying to find him after having just received a chilling manifesto from their son.
Rodger, 22, sent a couple dozen people — including his parents and at least one of his therapists — the 140-page document by e-mail not long before the shootings began, said Simon Astaire, a family friend, to CNN.
Rodger’s mother, Lichin, saw the e-mail at 9:17 p.m., and went to YouTube, where her son posted the alaming “Retrubution” video. She called her husband and then 911.
“I’ll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you,” Rodger, says in the video, which has since been removed.
“I don’t know why you girls are so repulsed by me. I am polite. I am the ultimate gentleman. And yet, you girls never give me a chance. I don’t know why.”
WARNING: The video below is extremely disturbing.