Veronika Elizabeth Weiss was a 19-year-old student who was killed on May 23, 2014, in Isla Vista, California. She was shot while walking near a sorority house during a multi-method spree attack that began with stabbings in the perpetrator’s apartment and continued with shootings and vehicle-ramming through the area. Katherine Cooper was also killed in that same shooting, and a third woman was wounded at the scene.

The attacker, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger, carried out a planned rampage he described in a manifesto and in a video he uploaded, framing the attack as retribution for perceived social and sexual rejections. The episode ultimately left six people dead and fourteen injured. Veronika Weiss’s family later pursued a wrongful death suit against the apartment complex’s property management alleging they failed to address the attacker’s dangerous behavior; that suit was settled.

Did anyone who knew Veronika or who was in Isla Vista that day notice anything unusual about the attacker beforehand?