A childhood buddy of the “virgin” murderer had a gut feeling he shouldn’t accept an invitation from Rodger to visit last weekend — likely saving him from becoming a victim in the madman’s murderous rampage, which left six dead and 13 injured.
The mother of Philip Bloesner, whom Rodger identified in his hate-filled manifesto as his first friend at Topanga Elementary School, told Britain’s Daily Mail that if her son and another friend had gone to Rodger’s Isla Vista pad as asked, “I have a feeling that they would have been right there as a part of it and shot, as well.
“We could see that he was turning,” Cathleen Bloesner said of Rodger. “He’d changed emotionally, and he’d become very despondent, and he wanted to get back at people.”
One of Rodger’s roommates, Weihan “David” Wang, didn’t follow his instincts and wound up dead.
Speaking with her hand clutched to her heart, Wang’s mother said her son had wanted to get away from Rodger and had even found a new apartment.
But he was waiting to move out until the start of the next semester, his parents, Jinshuang “Jane” Liu and Charlie Wang, told an NBC affiliate in San Diego.
Liu said her son told them Rodger played music loudly and was unsociable.
Wang was one of Rodger’s first victims and was found stabbed to death along with two other men in their apartment Friday night.
“I wish I could go in exchange of my son’s life,” Liu said, choking back tears. “I ask God, why doesn’t he take me instead of my son? I don’t understand why this happened to me.
“I’m just heartbroken. You just can’t imagine for a mom.”