Astaire recalled an interaction with Elliot at a Christmas party a few years ago in which Astaire went out to get a breath of fresh air and Elliot was outside by himself, gazing at the stars. ....
"As I walked away from him, I turned around to see him, and he had gone back to looking up at the stars, and I have to tell you, I thought he was the loneliest person I've ever seen in my life, I felt that at the time and now (with) what has happened, I absolutely see it more clearly..."
….. got an email from Peter and it was heart-(wrenching)
, and he talked. He said to me in his email that his son had been shot dead but he had taken others with him.
……, Astaire said, were "very much on top of things" — trying to get him help, and putting him in therapy at age 9. They had called the police two weeks before the shooting, Astaire said, "because they were alarmed at what he might do."
………from what I understand, Elliot had been living another life for a number of years,'' Astaire said. "Again this is what I understand — his manifesto he started to
write three years ago, and this was a different person than even I met."
http://www.today.com/news/elliot-ro...ing-victims-ucsb-shooting-more-son-2D79730882
He is very dignified. My sense here is he is not going to reveal to the world his friends son diagnosis - feeling that is there choice.
Astaire said Rodger’s parents were concerned about their son every day.
“I think their fears fundamentally, deep down, was that he was going to take his own life,” Astaire said.
Astaire thinks back to his encounters with Rodger. The boy was wrapped up within himself, Astaire said, distant and removed, even at dinners and parties.
“He was an odd child, didn’t quite fit into his skin.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/parents-santa-barbara-killer-distraught-speech-stuttered/story?id=23908059