Posted on 01/10/2013 4:39:41 PM PST by EternalVigilance
An operator of a highly popular YouTube channel dedicated to high-powered guns and explosives was found mysteriously shot to death, authorities said.
Keith Ratliff, who was a business partner at FPSRussia, YouTube's ninth most popular channel with more than three million active subscribers and a combined half billion views, was discovered on a rural road in Carnesville, Georgia.
Ratliff had a single gunshot wound the head and police are treating his death as a homicide.
When authorities made the grisly discovery on Thursday, they noticed there were several guns near Ratliff, according to a local radio station report.
'For him not to pull out that gun and try to defend himself, he had to feel comfortable around somebody. Either that or he was ambushed,' said Ratliff's heartbroken widow, Amanda.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Let's be careful out there.
What crap.
I carry - but not my whole damn armory. If they ever find me dead by the side of the road there will only be one weapon "near" me - and I hope to hell it'll be empty with an empty magazine beside it.
For the weapons not to be stolen in the first place is suspicious. That means he was shot for something other than theft - and even then I can't see the shooter(s) leaving the guns.
For the guns to be found, they were meant to be found.
I thought the original account said he was found shot in his office.
The story a few days ago said he was found in his office.
The ballistics report on this one would be very interesting.
I hadn’t seen that. Got a link?
Good post, and a good story, but “cult boss” realllly skews the picture:
The channel is popular, and this guy is his buddy, the geekier of the two.
There is no cult and there is no boss.
There is very tight public focus on the question of GUNS, so WHAT PARTY would this murder benefit.
It’s dark, and it’s obvious, and it is in keeping with the character of that person/group.
Lemme guess, the caliber was .38 (same as that found in Vince Foster’s hand).
I didn’t write the headline, obviously.
YouTube channel producer for fellow gun enthusiasts was found fatally shot in the head in his Carnesville, Ga., home on Jan. 3. Police are investigating the case as a homicide.
Juuust before tax deadline, what happens...? Celebrities get audited and/or prosecuted.
Why? Because each person then feels, “Gosh, wow, it happened to someone I KNOW..!!!” and then the total public deterrent value is far, far out of proportion to the effort required.
This is to fill us with the sense that people are getting gunned down left and right —he didn’t resist because the killer was in uniform and approached him under the premise that oversight was needed for something he was doing:
Use of some new explosive for a reactive target they were going to try out.
Have you noticed that FPS is the ONE gunner YouTuber who has had NOTHING to say about Sandy Hook and the torrent of impending legislation..?
In a rather macabre bit of irony, a self-professed "gun nut" who was a YouTube channel producer for fellow gun enthusiasts was found fatally shot in the head in his Carnesville, Ga., home on Jan. 3. Police are investigating the case as a homicide.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/professed-gun-nut-keith-ratliff-found-fatally-shot-head-article-1.1237250#ixzz2HcjFupkQ
Keith Ratliff, who was a business partner at FPSRussia, YouTube's ninth most popular channel with more than three million active subscribers and a combined half billion views, was discovered on a rural road in Carnesville, Georgia.
Ratliff had a single gunshot wound the head and police are treating his death as a homicide. Ratliff, who lived in Frankfort, Kentucky, with his family
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259190/Keith-Ratliff-Popular-online-guns-explosives-expert-shot-death-rural-Georgia-road.html#ixzz2Hcjy4Pay Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259190/Keith-Ratliff-Popular-online-guns-explosives-expert-shot-death-rural-Georgia-road.html#ixzz2HcjYS4vD Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
My critique was not aimed at you AT ALL —apologies if it came off sounding that way.
Nah. It’s cool.
Now there’s a classic example of a cult of personality...not!
Were there any government drones flying around in the area?
Home? Ga rural road? Slight difference.
Now I’m really confused...
Maybe he knew something about Sandy Hook. Something the media could find out if there wasn’t a complete and total blackout on Sandy Hook by the media. Nary a peep.
At this point I don’t know. Hadn’t heard about this until about an hour ago.
How about his home being in Kentucky? The journalism schools have turned out a bunch of bumbling idiots. What a pathetic state the media is in today.
Ping-
WTF? The last story I read the guy was tied up in his office with a gunshot to the back of the head. Now he’s on the side of the road?
Good catch. Remember the crappy and confusing reporting from Sandy Hook? So much false flag crap thrown against the wall, that Fox News kept correcting itself/news reports every 15-20mins.
Prayers to his family.
I heard this on the radidio a couple of days ago and I thought they said it was FPSRussia. Kyle hasn’t posted anything to his YouBoob in a week, that isn’t really unusal, but it will be interesting to see if he has an opinion about this.
Interesting, thanx for the post.
So true. Here where I live they first reported that the Sandy Hood shooter died with 3 shots to the back of the head and then it was 1 shot to the back of the head then it was he shot his way through the doors. Now, he got in with out breaking glass. So, what is it.
ALL of the disinfo and ‘confirmations’ that Fox was reporting was coming directly from doj. They mentioned that doj was their source several times. How did doj, which wasn’t there, have all this info, all of it wrong, before the locals ever said a word?
Did you know that one of the ‘relatives’ who claimed to be an uncle of one of the dead children was discovered to be an actor from out of town who didn’t even know the family he was claiming to speak for? Yet he appeared on all the networks and some of the morning shows faking tears calling for gun control...meanwhile telling off color jokes, laughing and having a good time offstage.
I didn’t know any of this.
Mercy, what a terrible thing of this person/actor to do.
“Cult”?! The marxist media’s pejorative term for “popular” for their enemies...
Yep.
It did.
There’s still YT film of 2 add’l shooters being chased into woods behind school, ‘proned-out’, and led-out past crowd. Both disappeared; one apparently was a curious neighbor, but the other never ID’d. Exact weapons usage is still unclear. Still much suppressed evidence, as with Aurora, Sikh Temple and other shootings.
Worst reporting I’ve ever seen; even more confusing than the first few hours of 9-11-01.
“was discovered to be an actor from out of town”
Do you have a link for this? I want to add it to my collection. tia
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