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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Is he eligible for more than an Honorable Mention, since he's reproduced twice? (Girlfriend has one kid, and is pregnant now).
Disappointed at the lack of quasi-racism on this thread.
Let me start: If we didn’t import these 3rd world dullards into our formerly great country, stuff like this would rarely happen.
Actually, that’s really just nationalism.
So many lives, ruined forever...for what? Because she desired viewers on Youtube? Prayers for the young man’s soul, and for his family.
BAN all guns. This PROVES that people are just too stupid to have access to firearms. /S
Actually this case is an example on how this takes care of itself. One idiot is DEAD, the other is going to prison.
The world is now a safer place with that gun still in it.
Yes, again, the “gun” didn’t shoot anyone.
Lol!
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