Correction: I misread the LA Times story, and had assumed from earlier reports that six people were killed in drive-by fashion, and that the evidently non-drive-by apartment, sorority and deli deaths were in addition to those.
Angry, mentally ill Elliot Rogers killed six people in a drive-by rampage in a college student area of Santa Barbara Friday night. Which made national news.
Before that, he evidently killed six people in his apartment and neighborhood, which was not news until a few hours ago.
According to the LA Times:
The suspect in the Isla Vista shooting rampage began his alleged crime spree by fatally stabbing three people at his apartment complex Friday night.
Officials said Elliot Rodger then went to a sorority a few blocks away and opened fire on three women nearby, fatally wounding two of them.
Rodger's next stop, said Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, was a local deli, where he fatally shot a UC Santa Barbara student inside.
The timeline isn't clear in the story,
but there were three people (presumably women) shot and killed in public before the drive-by massacre.
Whether a prompt police response to the sorority and deli murders could have prevented the subsequent murders will always be unknown.
As will whether some response to this bit in the Times story could have saved 12 lives:
One of Rodger's parents called a law enforcement agency last month, warning them about disturbing videos he was posting online, according to a source close to the family. It was unclear which videos they saw.
One thing is clear, given the ability of the gun lobby to terrify politicians, is that this latest example of an angry, mentally ill young white man shooting and killing several strangers will have no effect on the ability of angry, mentally ill young white men to legally acquire as many guns as they want.
If Newtown didn't change that, Isla Vista won't.