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The 22-year-old man who took the lives of six college students in California in 2014 was the first of the troubling series of alt-right killers, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Elliot Rodger stabbed three people to death and fatally shot three others in Isla Vista before taking his own life. He also left 14 people wounded.
The SPLC notes in Monday's report that Rodger, who was just 22, had uploaded a "sprawling manifesto filled with hatred of young women and interracial couples."
Kelly Hoover of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office told the Los Angeles Times that Rodger's interest in the Nazis had been noted.
"That's something that did come out as part of the investigation," Hoover told the newspaper.
There have been 13 "alt-right" killers in under four years, according to the SPLC. Most recently Samuel Woodward, who has reportedly been linked to a neo-Nazi group, was arrested for the brutal murder of 19-year-old college student Blaze Bernstein in California earlier this year.
Three of the killers on the SPLC's list committed their brutal crimes in December of 2017, including William Atchinson, who killed two students at a New Mexico high school.
The list of "alt-right" killers includes white supremacist Dylann Roof, who killed nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church in 2015.
The SPLC says the alt-right movement continues to "access the mainstream" and have success reaching young recruits. More than 100 people have been killed or injured during this recent reign of violence.
All the killers on the list are white, and most were under 30 when the crimes took place.
"While some certainly displayed signs of mental illness, all share a history of consuming and/or participating in the type of far-right ecosystem that defines the alt-right," the SPLC writes.
The "alt-right" was coined "in part" by white nationalist Richard Spencer, according to the SPLC.
The killing of Trayvon Martin and "the so-called Gamergate controversy" had much to do with the rise of alt-right, according to the SPLC. Female game developers and journalists were threatened with rape and death, the SPLC said.
"Significantly, Gamergate also launched the career of Milo Yiannopolous who later used his perch at Breitbart News to whitewash the movement and push it further into the mainstream," the SPLC writes.
The SPLC notes that Stephen Bannon called Breitbart "the platform for the alt-right," according to the SPLC.
The 22-year-old man who took the lives of six college students in California in 2014 was the first of the troubling series of alt-right killers, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Elliot Rodger stabbed three people to death and fatally shot three others in Isla Vista before taking his own life. He also left 14 people wounded.
The SPLC notes in Monday's report that Rodger, who was just 22, had uploaded a "sprawling manifesto filled with hatred of young women and interracial couples."
Kelly Hoover of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office told the Los Angeles Times that Rodger's interest in the Nazis had been noted.
"That's something that did come out as part of the investigation," Hoover told the newspaper.
There have been 13 "alt-right" killers in under four years, according to the SPLC. Most recently Samuel Woodward, who has reportedly been linked to a neo-Nazi group, was arrested for the brutal murder of 19-year-old college student Blaze Bernstein in California earlier this year.
Three of the killers on the SPLC's list committed their brutal crimes in December of 2017, including William Atchinson, who killed two students at a New Mexico high school.
The list of "alt-right" killers includes white supremacist Dylann Roof, who killed nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church in 2015.
The SPLC says the alt-right movement continues to "access the mainstream" and have success reaching young recruits. More than 100 people have been killed or injured during this recent reign of violence.
All the killers on the list are white, and most were under 30 when the crimes took place.
"While some certainly displayed signs of mental illness, all share a history of consuming and/or participating in the type of far-right ecosystem that defines the alt-right," the SPLC writes.
The "alt-right" was coined "in part" by white nationalist Richard Spencer, according to the SPLC.
The killing of Trayvon Martin and "the so-called Gamergate controversy" had much to do with the rise of alt-right, according to the SPLC. Female game developers and journalists were threatened with rape and death, the SPLC said.
"Significantly, Gamergate also launched the career of Milo Yiannopolous who later used his perch at Breitbart News to whitewash the movement and push it further into the mainstream," the SPLC writes.
The SPLC notes that Stephen Bannon called Breitbart "the platform for the alt-right," according to the SPLC.
