Susannah Breslin reports grisly news out of Porn Valley today: a part-time web designer, part-time porn actor (who’d just lost both jobs and his residence) is the primary suspect in “a stabbing rampage with what is purported be a movie prop Samurai sword.” The murder took place last night. The victim was a co-star of the suspect in at least one adult film, and a self-described “multimedia consultant” whose final tweets included mention of tinkering around with WordPress files late at night. The murder suspect had a history of violent behavior, as evidenced in his social networking profiles. Susannah writes:
Stephen Hill, 30, who performs in adult movies under the name Steve Driver, whose middle name, the LAPD confirmed in a phone call this afternoon, is Clancy, and whose last known residence is Canoga Park, fatally stabbed a coworker at Ultima DVD Inc. The Van Nuys company specializes in fetish videos in which men are abused by women. News reports state Hill was a sometimes porn actor and a web designer for the adult video production company and distributor. The incident took place in the back of the building at approximately 10:20 pm Tuesday evening. Hill was upset because he had been told he was losing his job and had been evicted from the company’s building, where he had been living. The first victim was stabbed with what has been described as a “machete-like” weapon or “Samurai sword.” Two coworkers who attempted to come to the first victim’s aid were also stabbed. Hill fled the scene. He was last seen driving a 1996 blue Toyota RAV4 with right-side damage and license plate 5YTC423.
(…) The victim who died is reportedly someone at least known in the business as Tom Dong.
Ironically, the two men appear together on the box cover of a “Cuckold Abuse and and Femdom Humiliation.” In the movie, the husband (Dong) must bear witness as his wife has sex with an “ethnic” man (Hill). It appears Dong was on Twitter, as well. His handle: @notjustanotherasian.
He described himself as an “Entrepreneur. Multimedia Consultant. Technology Enthusiast. Observer of Life. Motivated Individual.”
There’s much more in her report about the online bread crumbs that trail back to the suspect, including ominous MySpace profile messages about death and killing people. Also, links to some of the adult films in which the suspect performed.
Susannah adds,
While I don’t recall having ever met Hill, his type is familiar: a porn fan who became so obsessed with the industry that he managed to find a place in it, a hanger-on who never got farther up than the bottom rung, a loose cannon among loose cannons who one day went off.
Porn star murder suspect may have had a history of violence (True/Slant. Report is work-safe, but includes links to material that is graphically sexual)
Screengrabs of final tweets by the murder victim, whose profile has since been disabled on Twitter, follow.
