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Cult YouTube gun channel boss found shot dead on rural Georgia road
Keith Ratliff was found shot to the head but had cache of weapons near him
By Daily Mail Reporter (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter)
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.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/08/article-2259190-16D153F5000005DC-479_634x594.jpg
Mystery: Gun enthusiast Keith Ratliffe was found shot dead along a rural road
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/08/article-2259190-16D15423000005DC-981_634x300.jpg Armed: Ratliffe had several weapons on him when he died
When authorities made the grisly discovery on Thursday, they noticed there were several guns near Ratliff, according to a local radio station (http://www.921wlhr.com/body-found-in-carnesville-identified-2/) 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.
'You know, it just doesn't really add up,' she told a television station (http://www.lex18.com/news/ky-man-found-shot-dead-in-ga).
'We all want to know and we all want justice to be done,' Amanda says. 'He had way to much to look forward to in his life.'
Enlarge http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/08/article-2259190-16D10B8A000005DC-900_634x575.jpg (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/08/article-2259190-16D10B8A000005DC-900_634x575_popup.jpg) Tragedy: Ratliffe had a wife and a two-year-old son
Amanda said their two-year-old son is having a terrible time adjusting to life without his father.
'It was really hard. To know that he's going to go the rest of his life without his dad,' Amanda said, as their child, Jayden, clutched a picture of his dad that was taken on Christmas Eve.
Besides running the YouTube channel, Ratliff was also the owner of FPS Industries, which works in customized weaponry.
It is located in Carnesville, which is about a 90 minute drive from Atlanta.
Ratliff, who lived in Frankfort, Kentucky, with his family, wrote on his LinkedIn profile (http://www.linkedin.com/in/seotech) about his company, 'After a life of loving firearms and computers. I have combined both into one great new business that offers both viral marketing and quality firearms from one place.'
FPS is short-hand for first person shooter amongst video gamers.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/08/article-2259190-16D157B4000005DC-527_634x478.jpg Guns: Ratliffe ran another business where he customized weaponry
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I guess he shouldn't have believed LaPierre when he said the guns would protect him from bullets.
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The 2nd amendment was written during a time when slavery was legal, women could not own property- women WERE property, and it was legal for an adult to marry his 12 year old sister. We really need to revise the 2nd amendment. There is absolutely no reason people should be able to purchase 400 rounds of ammo, and military grade weapons, unless they plan on going on a shooting spree, of course! Also, you can't blame video games or movies. As Jon Stewart said last night, most citizens in other countries go to the movies and play video games too, and they don't have this problem. Anyone who dislikes this comment is not very smart.
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Why don't we just setup some guns by him and say, "see, his guns didn't protect him". Wake up people!!!
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obama did it.
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....annnnd que all the gov conspiracy's to take away all r gunz. It's simple "you live by the gun, you die by the gun." "are 1st and 2nd ammendment rights are going to be violated!!" Wrong, when those rights were created, there were muskets. Not high powered, eat through the flesh, weapons of today. Changes need to be made to the constitution. "gov'nment iz gonna take all ma gunz away" Why do you high powered, shoots 100 rounds a minute, type guns anyway? Your not going to stop the government, with a pea shooter when they approach you with a tank.
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live by the sword die by the sword..err, gun
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- F Lindsay , New Orleans ---- Your ranting post exemplifies the paranoid delusional views that everyone & the kitchen sink is after you & your liberties that make the rest of us in the real world skeptical of the mentality of gun owners within the USA.
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Irooonnyyyyyyy...
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I'm sorry that this young man's life was cut short so brutally, but all those guns and ammo sure didn't keep him safe and alive.
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Keith Ratliff was found shot to the head but had cache of weapons near him
By Daily Mail Reporter (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter)
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.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/08/article-2259190-16D153F5000005DC-479_634x594.jpg
Mystery: Gun enthusiast Keith Ratliffe was found shot dead along a rural road
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/08/article-2259190-16D15423000005DC-981_634x300.jpg Armed: Ratliffe had several weapons on him when he died
When authorities made the grisly discovery on Thursday, they noticed there were several guns near Ratliff, according to a local radio station (http://www.921wlhr.com/body-found-in-carnesville-identified-2/) 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.
'You know, it just doesn't really add up,' she told a television station (http://www.lex18.com/news/ky-man-found-shot-dead-in-ga).
'We all want to know and we all want justice to be done,' Amanda says. 'He had way to much to look forward to in his life.'
Enlarge http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/08/article-2259190-16D10B8A000005DC-900_634x575.jpg (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/08/article-2259190-16D10B8A000005DC-900_634x575_popup.jpg) Tragedy: Ratliffe had a wife and a two-year-old son
Amanda said their two-year-old son is having a terrible time adjusting to life without his father.
'It was really hard. To know that he's going to go the rest of his life without his dad,' Amanda said, as their child, Jayden, clutched a picture of his dad that was taken on Christmas Eve.
Besides running the YouTube channel, Ratliff was also the owner of FPS Industries, which works in customized weaponry.
It is located in Carnesville, which is about a 90 minute drive from Atlanta.
Ratliff, who lived in Frankfort, Kentucky, with his family, wrote on his LinkedIn profile (http://www.linkedin.com/in/seotech) about his company, 'After a life of loving firearms and computers. I have combined both into one great new business that offers both viral marketing and quality firearms from one place.'
FPS is short-hand for first person shooter amongst video gamers.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/08/article-2259190-16D157B4000005DC-527_634x478.jpg Guns: Ratliffe ran another business where he customized weaponry
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I guess he shouldn't have believed LaPierre when he said the guns would protect him from bullets.
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The 2nd amendment was written during a time when slavery was legal, women could not own property- women WERE property, and it was legal for an adult to marry his 12 year old sister. We really need to revise the 2nd amendment. There is absolutely no reason people should be able to purchase 400 rounds of ammo, and military grade weapons, unless they plan on going on a shooting spree, of course! Also, you can't blame video games or movies. As Jon Stewart said last night, most citizens in other countries go to the movies and play video games too, and they don't have this problem. Anyone who dislikes this comment is not very smart.
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Why don't we just setup some guns by him and say, "see, his guns didn't protect him". Wake up people!!!
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obama did it.
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....annnnd que all the gov conspiracy's to take away all r gunz. It's simple "you live by the gun, you die by the gun." "are 1st and 2nd ammendment rights are going to be violated!!" Wrong, when those rights were created, there were muskets. Not high powered, eat through the flesh, weapons of today. Changes need to be made to the constitution. "gov'nment iz gonna take all ma gunz away" Why do you high powered, shoots 100 rounds a minute, type guns anyway? Your not going to stop the government, with a pea shooter when they approach you with a tank.
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live by the sword die by the sword..err, gun
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- F Lindsay , New Orleans ---- Your ranting post exemplifies the paranoid delusional views that everyone & the kitchen sink is after you & your liberties that make the rest of us in the real world skeptical of the mentality of gun owners within the USA.
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Irooonnyyyyyyy...
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I'm sorry that this young man's life was cut short so brutally, but all those guns and ammo sure didn't keep him safe and alive.
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