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Matthew Parris

Elliot Rodger and the Hollywood ending

Americans do mass murder on a grand scale, choreographed, with fast cars and guns

31 May 2014

9:00 AM

31 May 2014

9:00 AM

I’ve found myself strangely drawn to the videos made by the 22-year-old assassin Elliot Rodger just before he went on his killing spree in his university town of Santa Barbara, California, last week. In a series of stabbings and drive-by shootings Rodger killed seven people, including finally himself, and wounded 13 more.

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