Couple killed after apparent online streamer clash on Las Vegas Strip

Sunday’s murder of a husband and wife stems from an online beef between two YouTube streamers arguing over, among other things, copyright infringement, the 8 News Now Investigators’ review of hours worth of archived video reveals.

Finny Da Legend, one of two of the shooting victims, and fellow streamer Sin City Manny, had argued for several months, the video appears to show. The two trolled each other, disagreed, and had lengthy conversations over the course of hours on a myriad of streams and sometimes different social media handles.
Sin City Manny, whose real name is Manuel Ruiz, 41, will appear in Las Vegas Justice Court Tuesday morning. He faces two charges of open murder.

By Monday morning, Ruiz’s streams seem to have been scrubbed from the Internet. But Finny Da Legend’s stream included some of Ruiz’s stream, where Finny and a cast of online guests criticize his prowess of Las Vegas.

“He’s the least informed Vegas person out there,” one of Finny’s co-streamers said in an online broadcast that lasted over five hours.

Someone with the screen name Kevin, another streamer on Finny’s channel, in the same post, directly addressed the feud over copyright. That portion of the stream, from just five days ago.

“If anyone should be striked down, it should be Manny,” Kevin said. “That’s who needs the copyright strikes. That’s who needs the axe.” It is unclear what exactly the copyright issue entails.

That comment appears sometime after the opening sequence of Finny’s stream, which included a copyright disclaimer and an obviously fake portrayal of President Donald Trump saying, “I want to say ‘[Expletive] Sin City Family and [Expletive] Manny.” Sin City Family, apparently, include other online streamers who have banded together.

Finny Da Legend’s streams remain online, with approximately 4,000 subscribers.