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Hollywood director's son kills six in knife and gun rampage 'for being rejected by women'

California: A student embittered by women rejecting him killed six in a gun and knife rampage before apparently taking his own life following a shootout with police in a seaside California college town, police said.

Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old son of a Hollywood director, also injured at least 13 people in Isla Vista, near the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara, police said Saturday.

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