shortly before the shootings and his parents were frantically trying to find him about the same time he was opening fire. pamela brown is live for us now in santa barbara, california, with exclusive new insight into the tragedy. pamela? reporter: that s right, fredericka. we are expected to learn any moment now the identity of the three victims found stabbed to death inside eliot rodger s apartment and from talking to a family friend of the rodgers named simon astair that he had grown frustrated with his roommates recreptly. apparently upset because they were making too much noise and played video games and contacted the landlord asking for them to move out and he was told that couldn t happen and learning from a family friend friday night his parents were in a mad scramble to find their son after receiving this chilling manifesto, the family friend
frantically searching for their son as the shooting was taking place. meanwhile, santa barbara county sheriff bill brown is defending an earlier investigation the agency conducted into rodger. they found him to be rather shy and timid, polite, well spoken. he explained to the deputies that it was a misunderstanding and that he was, although having some social problems, it was unlikely that he was going to continue to be a student here and was probably going to go home and he was able to convince them that he was not at that point a danger to himself or anyone else. you can see the memorial there behind the sheriff, popping up all over the place as police continue to sift through evidence. the communities are starting the healing process.
says 9:17 p.m. pacific time, the e-mail was found by the mom. read one sentence. knew something was wrong. went to the youtube page and known to post videos and found the retribution video. she apparently immediately called 911 according to the family friend and called the father and they sort of frantically trying to get in touch with him. hopped in the car trying to get to santa barbara to find their son. and as they were on their way there, that s when they heard there was a shooting, only to find out later that it was their son, their 22-year-old son behind that shooting. and we are going back to look at whether any red flags were missed along the way, fredericka. back in april, police visited eliot s apartment to chex on him. his mother was concerned about him. called the therapist and the therapist thought it was important enough to call this mental health hotline in santa barbara and contacted police and police didn t find anything too
taking veng. he collected guns and ammunit n ammunition. police say it s clear he planned the rampage for a very long time. and just in to cnn, the neighbor of eliot rodger, the man place say killed six people in that college town friday night talking about rodger and the interactions that he had with the 22-year-old community college student. he has asked us not to identify him. take a listen. when he first moved in, we tried to invite him out to, like, several parties and probably, like, you know, he would be walking to the apartment and all he ever did. walk to and from his apartment. like he would be coming in the courtyard and we would say, hey, eliot, come over and chill. we would be sitting in front of like right in front of his apartment on the benches. you tried to include him socially? yeah. multiple times. four or five times. he sat down and talked with him probably six and a half hours in total. and every single time he just
a couple of new developments from the deadly shooting near santa barbara, california. investigators today entering and searching the homes of eliot rodgers parents. rodger is the person police say shot or stabbed people to death in a rampage. no word on whether they found or removed anything from the rodger family home. the place where is the shooting victims died are now memorials. a store where christopher martinez was fatally shot and the sorority house where two women were killed. all three students at uc santa barbara. eliot rodger made no sekretd of the rage boiling inside him and