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YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 13 2018, @07:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the celebrity-has-its-shortcomings dept.

Apparition writes:

Late last month, a YouTube celebrity couple hid in their closet and called police while an armed, deranged fan ransacked their home.

Christopher Giles, who police described as "single, lonely and disturbed," had made the 11-hour drive from Albuquerque, according to documents filed in the 2nd Judicial District Court. And his phone was full of notes suggesting he had "developed a fondness" for the woman, Megan Turney, and a dislike of her boyfriend, Gavin Free.

Turney, 30, was made famous through her video blogs on anime, relationship advice and her life. Free, 29, is the co-host of a YouTube video series of slow-motion videos.

[...] According to that search warrant affidavit, around 3:40 a.m. on Jan. 26, Turney and Free awoke to the sound of breaking glass and a gunshot. They hid in their bedroom closet and called 911 while Giles searched their home for them.

When he couldn't find the couple, Giles left, encountering Austin Police Department officers on his way out.

The officers found Giles backing out of the driveway in his Lincoln sedan with a New Mexico license plate and ordered him to stop.

Instead, they heard a single gunshot coming from the car. An officer returned fire.

Giles was pronounced dead on the scene, a .45 caliber handgun near his hand, according to the affidavit. Turney and Free were not harmed.

[...] "Based on the footage seen it was apparent that Giles' sole intent was to cause harm to someone who resides there," the detective wrote in the complaint.

[...] Albuquerque Police Department detectives who executed a search warrant on his home in Albuquerque said Giles lived alone and was "an avid player of video games and was known for watching YouTube videos that were centered on his hobby."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2018, @12:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2018, @12:43AM (#637373)

    Few hundred dollars a week? If your total rent, food, and bus fare costs more than $1,000 a month, you need to move or get a job.

    Original AC here.

    I realize you're trying to be humorous. So we'll add to the joke with some statistics [deptofnumbers.com]:

    Median monthly gross residential rent in the United States was $959 in 2015 according to the Census ACS survey.1 Average gross rent was $1,021 in 2015. Median rent more accurately depicts rental rates in the middle of the distribution of rents than average rent and is thus preferred in the analysis below. 2016 US median and average rent data will be released in September of 2017.

    Also note that when one was (and had been for more than a decade) earning a six-figure annual salary and that's then cut to about 10%, bad things can happen unless one has significant savings (fortunately for me, I had such savings and chose to start my own business rather than go back to work for someone else).