Cult YouTube gun channel presenter found shot to death on rural Georgia road

• Keith Ratliff was found shot to the head but had cache of weapons near him 
• He ran YouTube channel with three million subscribers and all videos have been viewed more than a combined HALF BILLION times
• 32-year-old man leaves behind a wife and two-year-old son

An operator of a highly popular YouTube channel dedicated to high-powered guns and explosives was found mysteriously shot to death, authorities said.

Keith Ratliff, who ran FPSRussia, YouTube's ninth most popular channel with more than three million active subscribers and a combined half billion views, was discovered on a rural road in Carnesville, Georgia.

Ratliff had a single gunshot wound the head and police are treating his death as a homicide.

When authorities made the grisly discovery on Thursday, they noticed there were several guns near Ratliff, 

'For him not to pull out that gun and try to defend himself, he had to feel comfortable around somebody. Either that or he was ambushed