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A 19-year-old victim of the University of California at Santa Barbara mass killing who was born in Ottawa left the nation’s capital with his family when he was five years old.
George Chen’s grandmother, who still lives in Ottawa, told the Citizen she made the trip to San Jose, Calif., to look after her youngest grandson so her daughter, Kelly Wang, and her husband Johnny Chen could make the trip to Santa Barbara. It was there that George, their eldest son, was killed in a stabbing inside an Isla Vista apartment.
Wang told KABC-TV in Santa Barbara that gun laws in the United States should be changed.
“We would die a hundred times, a thousand times, but we don’t want our kids to get hurt,” Wang told KABC-TV. “This shouldn’t happen to any family.”
The mother of Elliot Rodger, the accused in the mass killing, got a call from her son’s therapist that her son had emailed a ranting manifesto about going on a deadly rampage.
The mother went to her son’s YouTube channel and found the video in which he threatens to kill people. She alerted authorities and set off frantically with her ex-husband to Santa Barbara.
By the time they arrived, it was too late; their son had killed six people and then, authorities say, himself.
Chen, who attended Leland High School in San Jose, was one of those victims. He was a computer science student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, according to media reports.
Simon Astaire, a Rodger family friend who on Sunday recounted their ordeal, said, “They’re in deep, deep grief. Their grief, which is nearly unbearable to be close to, is as much for the loss of their son as for the victims.”
It was the second time in recent months that Rodger’s mother had tried to intervene. In April, she had called one of her son’s counsellors after seeing bizarre videos he had posted on YouTube, though not the disturbing one he posted shortly before the killings, Astaire said. The counsellor called a mental health service, which then called police.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies who showed up at Rodger’s doorstep to check on his mental health, however, weren’t aware of any videos, the department’s spokeswoman Kelly Hoover said. They concluded after their visit that the well-mannered if shy young man posed no risk.
Rodger, writing in a manifesto, said the police asked whether he had suicidal thoughts, and he was able to convince them he was fine. He said he was relieved his apartment wasn’t searched because deputies would have uncovered the cache of weapons he used in the rampage in Isla Vista.
mhurley@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/meghan_hurley
-With files from The Associated Press and Postmedia News
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George Chen’s grandmother, who still lives in Ottawa, told the Citizen she made the trip to San Jose, Calif., to look after her youngest grandson so her daughter, Kelly Wang, and her husband Johnny Chen could make the trip to Santa Barbara. It was there that George, their eldest son, was killed in a stabbing inside an Isla Vista apartment.
Wang told KABC-TV in Santa Barbara that gun laws in the United States should be changed.
“We would die a hundred times, a thousand times, but we don’t want our kids to get hurt,” Wang told KABC-TV. “This shouldn’t happen to any family.”
The mother of Elliot Rodger, the accused in the mass killing, got a call from her son’s therapist that her son had emailed a ranting manifesto about going on a deadly rampage.
The mother went to her son’s YouTube channel and found the video in which he threatens to kill people. She alerted authorities and set off frantically with her ex-husband to Santa Barbara.
By the time they arrived, it was too late; their son had killed six people and then, authorities say, himself.
Chen, who attended Leland High School in San Jose, was one of those victims. He was a computer science student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, according to media reports.
Simon Astaire, a Rodger family friend who on Sunday recounted their ordeal, said, “They’re in deep, deep grief. Their grief, which is nearly unbearable to be close to, is as much for the loss of their son as for the victims.”
It was the second time in recent months that Rodger’s mother had tried to intervene. In April, she had called one of her son’s counsellors after seeing bizarre videos he had posted on YouTube, though not the disturbing one he posted shortly before the killings, Astaire said. The counsellor called a mental health service, which then called police.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies who showed up at Rodger’s doorstep to check on his mental health, however, weren’t aware of any videos, the department’s spokeswoman Kelly Hoover said. They concluded after their visit that the well-mannered if shy young man posed no risk.
Rodger, writing in a manifesto, said the police asked whether he had suicidal thoughts, and he was able to convince them he was fine. He said he was relieved his apartment wasn’t searched because deputies would have uncovered the cache of weapons he used in the rampage in Isla Vista.
mhurley@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/meghan_hurley
-With files from The Associated Press and Postmedia News
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