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These days everyone wants to be famous, and at the very least they are willing to settle for a few minutes of fame. That’s why YouTube is filled with people pranking each other and doing stupid stunts in order to get clicks and attention. Well one couple took it a tad too far and now because of that one of them is dead.
Monalisa Perez, a 19-year-old from Minnesota who enjoyed making YouTube videos with her 22-year-old boyfriend Pedro Ruiz III accidentally shot and killed Ruiz in a video stunt gone horribly wrong. But let me tell you what the stunt was: Ruiz held up a hardcover encyclopedia book and Perez shot at the book with a gold Desert Eagle .50 caliber handgun. The book was supposed to block the bullet. It didn’t.
Apparently this was all Ruiz’s idea because he wanted to increase his and Perez’s following on YouTube.
Me and Pedro are probably going to shoot one of the most dangerous videos ever HIS idea not MINE
— Monalisa Perez (@MonalisaPerez5) June 26, 2017
Via NBC News
They set up a GoPro camera on the back of a car and put another camera on a nearby ladder on Monday evening. Once they were filming, Perez picked up the Desert Eagle and shot the book Ruiz held in front of his chest. The bullet traveled through the book and hit Ruiz in the chest.
Perez then called 911 at 6:30 p.m. local time on Monday to report the she had accidentally shot her boyfriend in the chest, according to court documents. He was pronounced dead at the scene of a single gunshot wound to the chest.
Ruiz had practiced shooting books and showed off one that a bullet did not penetrate in order to convince Perez.
The couple already had a kid and another on the way so it baffles me that they would be attempting to pull stunts like this off.
Perez was arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter. She now faces up to ten years in prison. And for what? Trying to get a couple of more subscribers? Insane.
