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Veronica headed off to university less than a year ago and now her father is having to do something he can not bear to do with her, bury her. Veronica Weiss was one of the six students killed in the diabolical plan carried out by a disturbed 22- year old. As soon as news of the shooting hit the airwaves, Weiss began receiving messages. The first ones were things like, oh, we heard about Santa Barbara, everything's okay, right. Well, no, it's not right at all. Veronica's dead. He and his wife and sons raced up to the university when they didn't get a phone call from their normally conscientious daughter. While waiting for word from officials, they tracked Veronica's cell phone. It was still on, it even began to move, but she wasn't answering. How did you know? How were you sure that she was gone? We got on her iPhone and located it in the middle of the crime scene and then we actually were looking at the phone while they were moving her body away from the probably to take her to the morgue. But we're seeing this little dot move across the screen on the phone. On a working phone, a phone she could have picked up and dialed us on, if we were, if, if she was okay. They knew then that she was one of the girls who died here on the front lawn of the sorority. Police say 22- year- old Elliot Rodger carried out an attack on as many beautiful girls and popular boys as he could, the kind of people he perceived as having everything he had been denied. He was very troubled. Another problem with the system is that to identify and properly treat him, it was, it was impossible the way things were set up, I guess. It's preposterous that a kid who's in that bad of shape can go to three different gun stores and buy an arsenal. But it happens all the time. Weiss wishes Rodger had known the truth about who he actually killed. She was kind. She, she was the person who would reach out to the kids who weren't the popular kids. Some of the nerdy kids, some of the kids that were a little bit like this Rodger kid described himself as, as being kind of a little bit of an outcast. Does it strike you how terribly ironic it is, that he then turns around and does this to someone like Veronica? Very much so. He had no idea who he was killing, because if he was able to communicate to Veronica she would have reached out to him. She would have, she would have tried to help him. And she would've tried, she would've tried to be friends to him. Now the Weisses and the other victims' families are left with only memories to turn to, to remind them of who their children really were. This is something I, I, I don't have any experiences close to this in my life. The outpouring of support and love. I can say this, when somebody close to you dies, reach out to survivors. Because, even though it feels awkward and you don't have anything to say, every little word, every little sentence on Facebook, it all means something. It means that you're not alone. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Rampage Victim's Dad Learned of Daughter's Death by Tracing Cell Phone","description":"Rampage victim's dad learned of daughter's death by tracing cell phone","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/hYd52Keb/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-05-27T16:30:16.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hYd52Keb.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/hYd52Keb/","duration":"PT4M11S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/hYd52Keb/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```