Teddy Laas

Teddy Laas was a British game developer and flash animator. He created his first newgrounds account in 1999 but it was terminated for allegedly hate speech content, almost a year later. Lass then created several popular flash animations to newgrounds on a different server/account. In early 2002. They are considered to be the first popular flash videos on the net. During a 2006 summer event in Birmingham, Teddy was shot nine times in the face and stomach by a Jewish nationalist. He subsequently died in the hospital of internal bleeding hours later. The killing sparked a lot of controversy, and was featured on many big news corporation TV channels. The alleged suspect in the case was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wounds, first believed to be a rifle shot perpetrated by IRRA members.