Teenaged YouTube 'Counter-Strike' Star Dies, Kills Two In Fiery Wrong-Way Highway Crash (sandiegouniontribune.com)

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports: The 18-year-old who sped the wrong way down state Route 805 Thursday, crashing into a SUV and killing himself, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, was a YouTube star who had made a small fortune in video gaming gambling, according to authorities and hundreds of gaming fans on Twitter. The California Highway Patrol identified him Friday as Trevor Heitmann of San Diego. But the nearly 900,000 subscribers to his YouTube video channel and his Twitter followers knew him as "McSkillet"...

Kevin Hitt, editor in chief of VPesport.com online gaming news outlet, said Valve, under constraints from the state of Washington gambling commission, confiscated about $200,000 worth of McSkillet's skins and shut down his ability to acquire more.
VPEsports reports: Heitmann was one of the biggest names in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO) skin trading when in late 2017, Valve, developers of CSGO, banned all of Heitmann's Steam platform accounts, shutting down his entire skin trading and collecting empire... The ban by Valve precluded Heitmann from being able to unbox, gamble, or trade skins which directly affected his ability to monetize his YouTube videos which saw viewer counts anywhere between 250,000 to 4.3 million. He hasn't posted a video since....

Before the fatal crash, Heitmann purposely drove his vehicle into the Ashley Falls Elementary School front gate that had a sign on the front that had the word "STEAM" printed on it in reference to a magnet program which supports science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. After breaking a window, he then drove onto the soccer field, spinning his car in circles a couple of times before leaving.
A CHP office says Heitmann's speed was estimated at over 100 miles per hour before his final fiery crash -- and that Heitmann's $250,000 McLaren sports car "disintegrated", while the SUV was so badly burned investigators couldn't determine whether its two passengers -- Aileen Pizarro and her 12-year-old daughter Aryana Pizarro -- had been wearing seat belts.

Aileen's 22-year-old son has started a GoFundMe page "to help aid my family with funeral costs and any additional expenses related to Aileen and Aryana's deaths."

Comments

Suicide

[Anonymous Coward]

Committing suicide is one thing, but in do it in such a manner that you take other innocent lives with you, is fucking horribly twisted. Almost makes me wish that a Hell really does exist.

Re:Suicide

[Solandri]

Committing suicide is one thing, but in do it in such a manner that you take other innocent lives with you, is fucking horribly twisted.

It sounds like typical psychological projection. He felt he was wrongly punished. So he lashed out, using the justification that if an "innocent" such as himself could be made to suffer, then it was OK for him to make another innocent suffer.

I've had to caution a couple of my friends who "struck it rich" from a single income source like he did. Don't blow your money on toys and transient things like fast cars and hot women. Save it, invest it, use it to diversify your income stream. That way if that original income source disappears, you're not left high and dry like he was. Worst case you just have to reintegrate into society like a regular person, except you have a huge nest egg saved up to help you.

I guess I'll never have a McLaren

[Galactic Dominator]

For the life of me, I cannot wrap my head around the vanity needed to be buying skins for a shooter game.

Re:Testosterone

[quantaman]

I have been wondering why driving licenses are given to persons with high testosterone level?
Why not ban driving if your testosterone level is above certain safe threshold?

This has nothing to do with unsafe driving, it was a guy committing suicide in a way that killed two other people in the process.

Headline

[Rei]

"Kills"? Try the word "murders". Killing people in a car crash can be accidental. This guy murdered two innocent people.

Re:Seat belts?

[Anonymous Coward]

The seatbelt thing is meant to describe the level of carnage that this hormone-filled douche bag inflicted on innocent bystanders due to his inability to control his emotions. He torched a little girl and his mother so bad the police could barely figure out who he murdered. It has nothing to do with safety. Obviously everyone will be dead in a 100mph head-on collision. I hope he burns in hell.

Re: Seat belts?

[Anonymous Coward]

Firefighter here - in my response area we have a single lane undivided roadway with a 50mph speed limit and we routinely see survivors of head on 100-120mph collisions. Airbags play a big factor as do crumple zones, as do seatbelts. Iâ(TM)ll add that in my career, 16+ years and counting, everyone Iâ(TM)ve cut out of cars who was wearing a seat belt survived. As an aside, we sometimes have to pick up motorcyclists with a shovel, and hose away the pieces too small to pick up.

Re: Testosterone

[Anonymous Coward]

How's it sexist? Women also have testosterone, just as men also have oestrogen.

People with less melanin commit fewer crimes, therefore people with high melanin should be placed in jail by default. Totally not racist tho.

--This guy

And his assets?

[sunking2]

Every penny of what he had should be given/sold to the family so they don't need a gofundme to pay for the funeral/reparations.

Re: Seat belts?

[belthize]

I've heard this stupid mantra for 40+ years. The chances of you being in an accident where, seatbelt = burned alive and no seat belt = instant death, is very close to zero.

The other common argument is no seatbelt = instant death is better than seatbelt = vegetable. Which is fine except the set of car accidents where no seat belt = vegetable and seatbelt = perfectly fine is much much larger.

In short if you want to avoid horrible death or long term disability then wear a fucking seatbelt, or don't reproduce because you're mucking up the gene pool