Posted on 06/28/2017 7:34:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A 19-year-old aspiring YouTube star’s boyfriend is dead after she shot him in the chest in a video stunt gone wrong...
Norman County Sheriff Jeremy Thornton said in a statement that Monalisa Perez of Minnesota was arrested after she shot her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz III, 22, in the chest. According to court documents, she shot him with a gold Desert Eagle .50 caliber handgun — considered one of the most powerful pistols in the world — in the grass outside their home while he held up a hardcover encyclopedia to block the bullet.
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.
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Perez, who shot Ruiz from about a foot away, was charged with second-degree manslaughter, according to court documents. She faces up to 10 years in prison and/or a fine of $20,000.
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According to the YouTube videos the couple made together, they have a 3-year-old daughter and Perez is pregnant with their second.
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Can a Desert Eagle penetrate ONE ENTIRE BOOK...?
Why YES, it CAN..!!
Darwin Award Winner, Extraordinaire.
I think a .50 AE could probably transit 9 or 10 average Korans, packed tight.
Probably more.
Uh, maybe they should learn to READ some books...
Nice trick for gullible boy friend
She probably used a pellet gun to show him how the book would stop the action.
Then she pulled the old ‘switcheraooooo’
She should be give 10yrs+20grand just for being stooopid, then try her to see if learned anything...
Uh, maybe they should learn to READ some books...
Nice trick for gullible boy friend
She probably used a pellet gun to show him how the book would stop the action.
Then she pulled the old ‘switcheraooooo’
She should be give 10yrs+20grand just for being stooopid, then try her to see if learned anything...
Monalisa? Real name or YouTube name?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I think a .50 AE could probably transit 9 or 10 average Korans, packed tight.
Probably more.
Probably 10 more. Lol
All for the sake of fame on social media. Humility never entered into this.
You’re gonna need a bigger encyclopedia.
Hold muh book.
Where’d a 19-year-old find an encyclopedia in 2017? Does she also have a landline and a VCR?
I wish I had a gold .50 cal desert eagle.
Only because nobody has gone there yet ... do you think that they will throw the book at her?
This wasn’t “accidental”.
Idiots.
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Ouch. That’s what I get for not searching.
Perhaps he should not have used the Q issue of the encyclopedia.
Not my take.
You read that backwards, according to the story, the boyfriend shot the books and convinced the girlfriend to pull the trigger.
If that’s on video, it is just an elaborate Darwin Award nomination. If it isn’t, it is just a story, let a jury determine if she has to go to jail for a decade.
Ruiz had practiced shooting books and showed off one that a bullet did not penetrate in order to convince Perez.
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I think they’ll have a hard time getting a conviction if she has a halfway decent lawyer.
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