He helped to create a series of highly popular videos on YouTube. His real name was Keith Ratliff, but his fans knew him as one of the people behind "FPSRussia". The video clips on the channel, where a friend of his named Kyle Myers used an exaggerated Russian accent while firing all sorts of exotic firearms, have generated a total of well over 500 million views.
Ratliff's last FPSRussia video, uploaded on January 3rd and shown above, shows Myers doing what he did best; firing a DRD Paratus-18. The video also appears to be uploaded on the same day that the police in Carnesville, Georgia found Ratliff shot to death in his office.
The New York Times reports that he was shot just once in the head, but not by any of the guns that were also found around him. That's why the police are currently treating this case as a homicide. They claimed to have interviewed several people but have not found a suspect.
Ratliff also had his own YouTube channel, where he went in front of the camera himself to shoot weapons, among other things. It's currently unknown if Myers will continue to post FPSRussia videos without Ratliff.
Source: The New York Times
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