“Have you gotten Elliot’s email?” he said. “I think you should see it.”
Chin opened the email, saw the first few lines of a 137-page screed Elliot wrote and instantly knew something was terribly wrong, said Simon Astaire, a family friend, who is a Hollywood talent agent and media adviser. He provided this account on behalf of the family in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
Chin Rodger immediately checked Elliot’s YouTube channel, where he had posted bizarre videos about how alienated he felt, particularly from women. On top of the video cue was one called “Elliot Rodger’s Retribution.”
“Well, this is my last video, it all has come to this,” he started, speaking coldly and confidently, not his usual timid tone. “Tomorrow is the day of retribution, the day in which I will have my revenge against humanity, against all of you.”