CS:GO YouTuber McSkillet died in car crash, a mother and daughter killed

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/27/2018 08:56 AM | source: gameskinny | 50 comment(s)

Awful shocking news today. Just before the weekend a popular Counter Strike: Global Offensive player and YouTube creator died following a multi-car collision that occurred just outside of San Diego. Reportedly he drove his supercar into oncoming traffic, and killed a woman and her daughter.

Trevor Heitmann was a popular YouTuber gamer with nearly 900,000 subscribers to his YouTube video channel and his Twitter followers knew him as McSkillet. Various tweets by gaming fans said he had been banned from facilitating e-sport gambling that had brought him a sizeable income – enough to buy a handmade, 2015 British McLaren 650S sports car that would have cost US$250,000 or more. The McLaren, with Heitmann behind the wheel, slammed head-on into a Hyundai SUV and both vehicles burst into flames. It is suggested by some, he was not in a right state of mind.

The crash happened on Thursday after 4:30 pm local time, where Heitmann, driving the wrong way, crashed into a Hyundai SUV killing a 43-year-old woman and her 12-year-old daughter. According to an interview, one of Heitmann's friend said he had been dealing with depression before the crash.

“I don’t know how to feel,” they said. “I knew him so well in middle and high school, he was a really good person and we had a lot of great memories together, but now learning about all the tragedy he caused for the people who died, I don’t know what to feel.”

McSkillet has made a substantial amount of money through his YouTube channel, enough for him to purchase the luxury car involved in the crash. However, it's been several months since his most recent upload. The YouTuber never revealed his real name or his face online.

The two crash victims are Aileen Pizarro, 43, and her daughter Aryana (12), their Son setup has set up a GoFundMe page for their memorial. This would cover the funeral costs and additional expenses related to their deaths. The original goal is only for $5,000 USD, but has now raised over $50.000 by almost a 1000 people.

What a tragedy.

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Humanoid_1
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#5578238 Posted on: 08/27/2018 12:44 PM

Wouldn't the family of the victims receive compensation from this McSkillet person's estate? The accident (or a sheer suicide) was clearly his fault.

Good question, I've never heard of that happening before, though it sounds like a good idea.

I do for example not understand why thieves caught and charged with a crime they also admit to, + revealing info only the real thief could know are not made to pay back what they stole (my home was burgled last year with thousands of £ worth of stuff stolen and not yet insured - just moved to my property after my father died). He was sentenced to 29 months in jail for a string of break ins (even while people were in the home), but was released in about 8 months

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#5578239 Posted on: 08/27/2018 12:47 PM

Wouldn't the family of the victims receive compensation from this McSkillet person's estate? The accident (or a sheer suicide) was clearly his fault.

IANAL but it seems the most logical thing.

Also, it's kinda funny that so many people lose their lives in car crashes every day and go largely ignored...
BUT if you "luck out" and a it's a celebrity that caused the accident, then you might get donations.

I'm not saying that donations are bad per se, it's just a very uneven distribution.

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#5578240 Posted on: 08/27/2018 12:51 PM

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#5578247 Posted on: 08/27/2018 01:04 PM

It always seems to me, that the kind of minds who are very, very good at whatever game they decide to get addicted to and are good enough to start producing videos that many people think are good enough to watch - are also slightly addictive personalities and maybe also mildly autistic in nature (the autism is what makes them so good at what they do), so they are somewhat unstable in other areas of their life. I notice a lot of successful youtubers are also slightly unstable/crazy if you also see what goes through their heads on Twitter during the day.

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#5578249 Posted on: 08/27/2018 01:08 PM

You think we would have ever heard of that if it wasn't for that guy apparently being a youtuber / CS player?

Yea, that's exactly my point. Donations roll through only as a consequence of that.

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