Randy Stair

About

Randy Stair, known online as Andrew Blaze, was a YouTuber who committed suicide after going on a shooting spree in early June 2017. Following his death, he was described as "loner" who obsessed over the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado.^[1]

Online History

In June 2008, Stair created the Pioneer Productions YouTube channel under the pseudonym Andrew Blaze. The first video was uplodaed on November 19th, 2009, in which Stair interacts with a "horse head on a stick" (shown below, left). On August 3rd, 2010, Stair uploaded a video in which he and YouTuber MakeMeBad35 interact with a wooden alligator toy (shown below, right). The video would become his most viewed of all time, garnering upwards of 118,000 views over the next seven years.

On June 20th, 2011, YouTuber Ray William Johnson released an episode of =3 which featured Stair in the video (shown below). Over the next six years, the video gained over 9.9 million views and 72,000 comments.

Ember's Ghost Squad

In January 2016, Stair created the channel "Ember's Ghost Squad," featuring violent Flash animation cartoons in which a squad of ghosts who seek out suicidal people and recruit them. The show itself was a fan-made spin-off of the Nickelodeon show Danny Phantom, and based off of the character Ember McLain.

Shooting Spree

On June 7th, 2017, Stair released a final video indicating describing his plans to commit a mass murder before killing himself (shown below).

The following day, Stair went into the Weis Market grocery store where he was employed in Dallas, Pennsylvania, and killed three of his co-workers with two shotguns before killing himself. The victims were later identified as 26-year-old Victoria Borg, 47-year-old Brian Hayes and 63-year-old Terry Sterling. That day, Heavy^[2] published an article about Stair titled "Randy Stair: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know." On June 9th, a page for Stair was created on Encyclopedia Dramatica.^[3] That same day, The Times-Tribune^[1] published an article on Stair titled "Wyoming County mass shooter leaves massive online trail."

On June 19th, YouTuber Mister Metokur uploaded an episode of Internet Insanity on Randy Stair, featuring a thorough explanation of Stair's internet history and struggles with transsexuality (shown below). Within 48 hours, the video gathered upwards of 116,000 views and 3,800 comments.

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