YouTube star kills two in head-on crash

Wrong-way wreck leaves mother, daughter dead

SAN DIEGO — The 18-year-old who sped the wrong way down state Route 805 on Thursday, crashing into an SUV and killing himself, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, was a YouTube star who had made a small fortune in video gaming gambling, according to authorities and hundreds of gaming fans on Twitter.

The California Highway Patrol identified him Friday as Trevor Heitmann of San Diego.

But the nearly 900,000 subscribers to his YouTube video channel and his Twitter followers knew him as “McSkillet.”

Various tweets by gaming fans said he had been banned from facilitating esports gambling that had brought him a sizable income — enough to buy a handmade, 2015 British McLaren 650S sports car that would have cost $250,000 or more.

The McLaren, with Heitmann behind the wheel, slammed head-on into a Hyundai SUV and both vehicles burst into flames. Those who died in the SUV were tentatively identified by the county medical examiner’s office as a 43-year-old San Diego woman and her 12-year-old daughter.

The woman’s son identified them as Aileen Pizarro and her daughter Aryana Pizarro. They lived in the College Area neighborhood. Aileen Pizzaro was a marriage and family counselor working toward her license, and her daughter was set to start seventh grade on Monday, Dominic Pizarro said.

Heitmann was headed south in northbound HOV lanes of I-805 near Sorrento Valley about 4:40 p.m. Thursday when he rammed the oncoming SUV. Other cars hit the flaming wreckage, causing at least one serious injury. Debris from the damaged vehicles flew across freeway lanes and the McLaren “disintegrated,” CHP Officer Jake Sanchez said.

Sanchez said he believes Heitmann entered the freeway at Carroll Canyon Road.

A crash investigation and cleanup of the freeway kept three lanes closed for 10 hours.

“At the time of the crash, he could have been going over 100 mph,” Sanchez said of Heitmann. “The McLaren is one of the fastest cars in the world.”

Sanchez confirmed that the McLaren in the freeway crash is the same car that, about 20 minutes earlier, smashed through a metal gate to a field at Ashley Falls Elementary School in Carmel Valley.

San Diego police said witnesses reported that a black car drove through the gate. No one was injured and a vandalism report was taken. Fox 5 reported that witnesses said the driver had gotten out of the car, smashed a window at the school and then left.

The TV station also said police went to the Heitmann family home in Carmel Valley after the teen’s father reported that his son had sped away, hitting another family car late Thursday afternoon.

The man described on Twitter as “McSkillet” regularly posted YouTube videos about his websites, CSGOMagic and skin.game, devoted to the “Counter-Strike” video game and gambling.

The family has started a GoFundMe page to raise money for funeral costs and additional expenses.