Sailor who made ‘Numa’ video slain

[unhappycamper]

Sailor who made ‘Numa’ video slain
By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Feb 2, 2009 20:49:58 EST

A 39-year-old sailor and one-time producer of a popular online video known as the “Enterprise Numa Numa” was killed in his Maryland home in what police say was a murder-suicide involving his girlfriend.

Electronic Technician 2nd Class (SW) Michael Joseph Missimer was found Jan. 27 in his apartment in Annapolis, Md., with a fatal gunshot wound, police said.

In 2005, Missimer was serving aboard the aircraft carrier Enterprise when he filmed, edited and posted online a five-minute video of shipmates dancing and spoofing a popular YouTube clip known as “the Numa Numa video.” Missimer’s video has been viewed more than 2 million times during the past several years, according to YouTube.

Anne Arundel County police in Maryland received a phone call from Missimer’s live-in girlfriend who said authorities would soon find two dead bodies in her apartment, and one of them would be her body.

Moments later, police entered the apartment and found Missimer had been shot in the chest, and the woman, Helen Clapsaddle, 43, appeared to have committed suicide, police said.


Rest of article at: http://navytimes.com/news/2009/02/navy_numavideo_death_020209w/%2e

[BlooInBloo]

1. RIP, but I thought for all the world you meant this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o

[Divine Discontent]

2. that's Gary Brolsma, but I thought at first it was him too! Sadly, this guy that died was murdered

by his GF, and then she killed herself. How sad.

[BlooInBloo]

5. Indeed. :(

[eShirl]

3. Don't feel bad; I thought, "Which member of Ozone was in the Romanian Navy?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEN68wGjjP0

[eShirl]

4. too many suicides :(

RIP, to him and his girlfriend.