Isla Vista Gunman "Convinced" Authorities He Wasn't a Threat   Concerned family members of gunman Elliot Rodger contacted mental health professionals in April, Santa Barbara County Sheriff  Bill Brown said Sunday   Sunday, May 25, 2014  |  By Andrew Lopez

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, left, speaks during a news conference on Saturday, May 24, 2014, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Sheriff's officials say Elliot Rodger, 22, went on a rampage near the University of California, Santa Barbara, stabbing three people to death at his apartment before shooting and killing three more in a crime spree through a nearby neighborhood.

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Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said Sunday that deputies were convinced that the Isla Vista gunman, who killed six innocent people and himself during a shooting rampage in Isla Vista Friday, wasn’t a threat following a welfare check last month.

Concerned family members of gunman Elliot Rodger contacted mental health professionals in April, Brown said. When his agency was notified, deputies were sent to check on Rodger.

“He convinced them that it was all a misunderstanding,” Brown told NBC4. Though Rodger told deputies that he was having social problems and was likely going to leave school, “he was able to convince them that he was not a threat to himself or to anyone else at the time.”

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