Porn actor slash web designer suspected of slashing porn co-worker to death with "Samurai sword"

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.

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certron

This would never make it as the plot of a movie, again proving that truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.
Quiche de Resistance

With all respect to you “Cumfart Tsunami” fans out there, the correct terminology is dirtpipe milkshake.
Ugly Canuck

Please, hold off on the cutting remarks.
Flashman

He looks kinda like the Old Spice guy:
Look at your man. Now back to me.
Anything can happen. I have a sword.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  He looks kinda like the Old Spice guy
  
  Maybe from the neck up. How do you break into porn with moobs?
  
  Exhibit A
  Exhibit B
  - grimc
    
    Ron Jeremy probably has some thoughts on that.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      Ron Jeremy probably has some thoughts on that.
      
      Ron Jeremy started out as a pretty boy.
      
      Exhibit C
      - grimc
        
        What the…wow. My entire worldview needs to be reassessed.
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        Google images first page has a full monty shot from when he was young.
      - grimc
        
        I think being confused is enough for tonight. No reason to top it off with feeling inadequate.
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        Just think of him as a dick with a really tiny man attached to it.
Interrowang

It’s amazing how exponentially more interesting this story becomes by his choice of weapon.
Anonymous

As a fellow web designer, I have to re-assess my career choice now because… you know… it’s a slippery slope: first you’re an innocent web designer, next thing you’re a on-again-off-again porn actor, next thing you know, you’re a samurai-sword-wielding murderer.
Anonymous

Zeds dead, baby. Zed’s dead.
Syd

According to the news report he was about to be fired for “inappropriate behavior”. When “Cum Fart Tsunami 2″ is part of your business plan what a fellow gotta do to be inappropriate?
grimc

Excellent advice, if I wasn’t an actual really tiny man. You can stop helping now. I’m going to go corner the market on copies of Cum Fart Tsunami 2.
slates81

#14 wins by a landslide (or tsunami, if you prefer).
Jack

You know, I have never known anyone who has a Samurai sword who is not a loopy nut.

It’s the one thing I miss about not being in the midwest anymore: The news reports of drunken dinks getting into fights and hurting/killing each other with Samurai swords.

Is there any blog devoted to folks hurting themselves with mail order weapons like this?
- Anonymous
  
  Yeah. It’s weird to read about a sword attack that doesn’t involve Indiana or Hoosiers.
- Tynam
  
  For what it’s worth, I know a lot of people with samurai swords who aren’t loopy nuts.
  
  But then, I hang out with the medieval weapons / martial arts crowd at the Royal Armouries. These may not be representative of sword-owners in your area.
- IronEdithKidd
  
  @24: you got some links to back this assertion? I’ve lived all but two years of my life in the upper midwest. I’ve never heard of such things. Not saying it doesn’t happen, I just want some proof that it does.
  - Jack
    
    @33: Yes, I do. here you go! http://tinyurl.com/36cal9r
  - Anonymous
    
    A couple of the more recent incidents in Indiana:
    http://www.indy.com/posts/sword-used-in-fight-that-kills-1-injures-2
    
    and
    
    http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20100514/NEWS06/100514009/Indy-teen-arrested-for-swinging-4-foot-sword-at-protective-parent
    
    My favorite part of the latter is that it involved 2) a cutlass, not a katana; and b) the victim used a bag as defense.
- knoxblox
  
  Tynam has a point, but truth be told, it’s quite ironic to see someone with a mullet, trucker hat, and crappy tattoos wielding a samurai sword.
Anonymous

God rest ye, merry gentlemen. Oh, tidings of cum fart. Enjoy!
Anonymous

As is sadly the case with most sequels, “Cum Fart Tsunami 2″ did not live up to the sublime creative genius of the original “Cum Fart Tsunami” and was roundly panned by critics as a cheap, hype-soaked, imitation.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Disappointingly derivative, given the seminal nature of the original work.
  - Felton
    
    Rim shot takes on a whole new meaning in the context of this thread, doesn’t it?
Rider

“whose middle name, the LAPD confirmed in a phone call this afternoon, is Clancy” that is the oddest thing I have read in any article ever.
- Xeni Jardin
  
  The point of that line (which is excerpted here on Boing Boing out of context) is that it confirms that the suspect is the same guy who appeared in these adult films. Prior to that confirmation, we weren’t sure.
  - uildaan
    
    dont worry, nobody is criticizing your cutting journalism. You excerpts always slice right to the heart of the story
    - Xeni Jardin
      
      [ grooooooan ]
Rick.

Never thought I’d read the word “cuckold” on BB.
- JoshuaZ
  
  Rick, if I were told to predict how the word would have come up I would have expected something related to the cuckoo.
Anonymous

just a small thing, but femdom doesnt mean abuse of females, it’s females abusing dudes…domination by not of females…he’s clearly nuts but its a bit rich to state a fact that is contradicted by the accompanying picture

lol, you said cum fart
Anonymous

That might be the point of the line, but the word ‘Clancy’ itself makes one stop and goggle. The very idea that the guy who’s unashamedly porking the girl/bloke splayed before you may have a middle name of ‘Clancy’ is just inexplicably delicious.
Lobster

Every time the media says “samurai sword” I die a little inside. Kind of like when they refer to all assault rifles as “machine guns.”
Antinous / Moderator

I just got to the part about him starring in Cum Fart Tsunami 2. I have to go lie down with a cool cloth on my forehead now.