Screengrab from a video by Tanner Cook.
A 21-year-old YouTuber in the United States, who is famous for his funny pranks, suffered the shock of his life when the victim of one of his practical jokes shot him in the stomach. It happened when he was shooting a prank video for his channel inside the Dulles Town Center Mall in Virginia.
Guardian reported that Tanner Cook, a prankster on his Classified Hooligans YouTube channel with nearly 40,000 subscribers, posts videos in which he plays practical jokes on random people. According to investigators and an interview Cook gave to a nearby TV station wusa, He was being recorded by a friend when events took an almost fatal turn.
The shooter was a 31-year-old man named Allen Coley, according to court records and a judge in Loudoun County General District Court.
The news outlet said the assailant, Koli, was taken into custody on Sunday and has been charged with malicious wounding, using a handgun to commit a crime and firing a gun inside a building.
Sheriff Mike Chapman said that an altercation that started between two men in the food court was the cause of the shooting. Many people in the mall were startled by the sound of gunshots.
YouTuber Cook was taken to the hospital and treated for his wounds.
“I was making a simple joke, and this guy didn’t take it too well,” Cook told WUSA from his hospital bed.
Guardian reported that Cook’s page included clips of him acting as if he were vomiting on ride-sharing service drivers, harassing a fast-food restaurant employee by going behind the counter of an establishment, and harassing people at stores. Are troubling you
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