“I heard a knock on my apartment door,” Rodger wrote in the diatribe he would later send out. “I opened it to see seven police officers asking for me.”
He wrote that “the biggest fear I had ever felt in my life overcame me.”
He had three semi-automatic weapons in his bedroom and had written up plans for his assault.
“I tactfully told them that it was all a misunderstanding, and they finally left. If they had demanded to search my room … that would have ended everything,” he wrote. “For a few horrible seconds I thought it was all over. When they left, the biggest wave of relief swept over me.”