He scripted it like a sick Hollywood movie, starring himself as the pathetically wronged victim who would exact revenge on those who spurned him.
Deranged, privileged California loser Elliot Rodger filled a 141-page manifesto with hate and loathing — for himself and his targets, from the most popular sorority girls to his annoying roommates — detailing everything from their tortured deaths to his own suicide.
“I am Elliot Rodger . . . Magnificent, glorious, supreme, eminent . . . Divine! I am the closest thing there is to a living god,’’ the 22-year-old college student, son of a “Hunger Games” assistant director, boasted.
“Humanity is a disgusting, depraved and evil species. It is my purpose to punish them all. On the day of Retribution, I will truly be a powerful god, punishing everyone I deem to be impure.
“This is the story of my entire life. It is a dark story of sadness, anger, and hatred. It is a story of a war against cruel injustice . . . I didn’t want things to turn out this way, but humanity forced my hand.’’
The demented document reveals the troubled mind of the self-described social outcast who killed six and wounded 13 in a seething weekend revenge-for-rejection rampage in Santa Barbara.
The killing spree ended with Rodger — who grew up seemingly wanting for nothing — taking his own life with one of his three guns.
Throughout his rants, he seethes that despite his wealth and relative good looks, he was still a virgin, unable to get a woman into bed despite many attempts while other, lesser guys got the gals. Because of that, “Women should not have the right to choose who to mate and breed with,’’ he fumed in the tome. “That decision should made for them by rational men of intelligence. If women continue to have rights, they will only hinder the advancement of the human race by breeding with degenerate men and creating stupid, degenerate offspring.
“Women are like a plague,’’ Rodger wrote. “They don’t deserve to have any rights . . . Women are vicious, evil, barbaric animals, and they need to be treated as such.
“In an ideal world, sexuality . . . must be outlawed. In a world without sex, humanity will be pure and civilized. Men will grow up healthily, without having to worry about such a barbaric act. . . . In order to completely abolish sex, women themselves would have to be abolished.
“In order to carry this out, there must exist a new and powerful type of government, under the control of one divine ruler, such as myself.’’
Among those Rodger killed were at least two male roommates and a third man whom he stabbed to death in his Santa Barbara apartment.
Authorities identified them Sunday as Cheng Yuan Hong, 20, of San Jose, 19-year-old George Chen, also of San Jose, and 20-year-old Weihan Wang of Fremont. All three were students at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where Rodger also studied and carried out part of his bloodbath.
Two sorority sisters and a male student at a deli were shot dead by Rodger.
Manifesto of Elliot Rodger
Killed were Veronika Weiss, 19, and Katherine Cooper, 22 — both shot near the Alpha Phi sorority on Embarcadero del Norte.
“I don’t know what happened, but I like to believe that Veronika ran into this man who looked so troubled and tried to calm him down,” Veronica’s father, Bob, told The Post on Sunday. “That’s what she would do. That’s what she always did — she remained calm in a crisis.”
Cooper majored in art history and archaeology at UCSB, according to her Facebook page.
“She was a shining star,” said Cooper’s devastated aunt, Stacy Simmer.
Rodger’s killing spree then took him to a nearby deli, where he shot another man to death.
Christopher Michael-Martinez, 20, was killed inside the I.V. Delimart on Pardall Road.
Santa Barbara deputies all but admitted Sunday that they goofed just weeks ago when they let Rodger go free after barely questioning him in April.
At the time, his worried parents alerted officials to a potential problem after seeing one of his threatening video posts.
“Obviously, looking back on this, it’s a very tragic situation, and we certainly wish that we could turn the clock back and maybe change some things,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown told “Face the Nation.”
Rodger himself wrote that he was surprised that deputies didn’t bust him before he got a chance to carry out his posted threats.
If police had searched his room at the time, he wrote, they would have “found all of my guns and weapons, along with my writings of what I plan to do with them.’’
Just before his rampage Friday, he’d sent his manifesto to his parents, therapist and others, prompting his mom to call his father and try to stop him. They were too late, hearing about the rampage on the news on their way to see him.
Despite Rodger’s excessive self-pity, the gunman was the son of wealthy Hollywood director Peter Rodger and wore designer sunglasses, drove a luxury car and indulged in the high life.
Sheriff Brown said he wasn’t sure his deputies checked in April whether Rodger, who had Asperger’s syndrome, also had a more violent fashion accessory — guns. He had three of them — plus 400 rounds of ammo — on him at the time of his killing spree.
It seemed as if Rodger was living his whole life like it was a movie.
He wrote in his manifesto that he wanted to move to Santa Barbara “because I watched that movie ‘Alpha Dog.’
“The movie had a profound effect on me, because it depicted lots of good-looking young people enjoying pleasurable sex lives . . . I found out about Isla Vista, the small town adjacent to UCSB where all of the college students live and have parties. When I found out about this, I had the desperate hope that if I moved to that town, I would be able to have that life, too,’’ he wrote.
The carnage included 13 wounded, who were either shot or struck by Rodger’s speeding BMW.
Additional reporting by Betsy Goodman-Smith
Just before Elliot Rodger began his so-called “Day of Retribution,” he sent a rambling, 141-page document to his family, therapist and others detailing his plans to give a California college town what he though it deserved — a bloodbath.
Here are some excerpts:
On why he wanted to go to school at UC Santa Barbara:
“It was all because I watched that movie ‘Alpha Dog.’ The movie had a profound effect on me, because it depicted lots of good-looking young people enjoying pleasurable sex lives . . . I found out about Isla Vista, the small town adjacent to UCSB where all of the college students live and have parties.. When I found out about this, I had the desperate hope that if I moved to that town, I would be able to live that life too. That was the life I wanted. A life of pleasure and sex.”
On his plan to keep all women in a concentration camp and starve them to death:
“Women are like a plague. They don’t deserve to have any rights. Their wickedness must be contained in order [to] prevent future generations from falling into degeneracy. Women are vicious, evil, barbaric animals, and they need to be treated as such. . . . There is something mentally wrong with the way their brains are wired, as if they haven’t evolved from animal-like thinking. They are incapable of reason or thinking rationally. They are like animals, completely controlled by their primal, depraved emotions and impulses.”
After pouring drinks on a young couple in love:
“I wanted to do horrible things to that couple. I wanted to inflict pain on all young couples . . . I wanted to kill them slowly, to strip the skins off their flesh. They deserve it. The males deserve it for taking the females away from me, and the females deserve it for choosing those males instead of me.”
On a party at which he pretended to shoot fellow students with his hand and then tried to push them off a ledge. He was the only one to fall off the ledge, resulting in a broken leg:
“My main target was the girls. I wanted to punish them for talking to obnoxious boys instead of me.”
On his desire to kill his younger half-brother, stepmother and father — then deciding against it because he thought he might back out of murdering his dad:
“[It] would be too risky to try to kill him. I might hesitate at the last second.”