SANTA BARBARA, United States: A student who stabbed three people to death and then fatally shot three more in a bustling California college town was the mentally disturbed son of a Hollywood director, police said on Saturday (Sunday in Manila).

At least 13 people were injured and the shooter, named by police as Elliot Rodger, 22, apparently killed himself after the knife-and-gun rampage on Friday (Saturday) in Isla Vista, near the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara.

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