Posted on 06/29/2017 10:40:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Before Monday, before the 911 call and police investigation, Pedro Ruiz III, an aspiring YouTube star in rural Minnesota, spent considerable time convincing his girlfriend to shoot a gun at his chest.
There would be a thick encyclopedia book between the barrel and his body, authorities say he told 19-year-old Monalisa Perez. The pages, he reasoned, would stop the bullet.
He even had evidence that it had worked once before - a different book with an entrance hole but no exit.
So on Monday evening, the young couple positioned two cameras outside their home and prepared for their breakthrough stunt. They wanted fame, family said, and danger often brings it.
"Me and Pedro are probably going to shoot one of the most dangerous videos ever," Perez teased in a tweet at 5 p.m. "HIS idea not MINE."
With one camera attached to a ladder and the other propped on the back of a car, the couple staged their stunt, according to authorities. Ruiz held the book to his chest and Perez held the gun, a gold Desert Eagle .50 caliber pistol considered "one of the most powerful semiautomatic handguns in the world."
From a foot away, court documents say, Perez fired.
This time, the bullet didn't stop in the book but instead pierced Ruiz in the chest. Medics tried to revive him, authorities said, but he was declared dead at the house.
Perez was arrested Monday on a charge of reckless discharge of a gun. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years behind bars.
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WTH is an ‘aspiring youtube star’?? Anything to avoid getting a real job I reckon.
Oh, boy...I can see the family suing the publisher of the “thick encyclopedia book “ for not being thick enough or whatever.
Sostenga mi cerveza
“Mistakes were made.”
Rural Minnesota isn’t what you think it is. Hasn’t been for several generations.
Well now he’s Pedro Ruiz the LAST! What a dumbass!
I really disagree with you. In general, I think prosecutors are overzealous but in this case, I think the woman should be charged, in fact, I think she should face murder charges. I think an example should be made of her, nationwide, so that the next young fool will not, under any circumstances, point a loaded gun at anyone and pull the trigger — unless it is to stop a crime! She deserves a long long time in prison. (Or attack any person with any other dangerous object no matter how foolish and innocent the reason may seem to be.)
Where did he the money to buy a Desert Eagle and the ammo?
Well, he had the spine to turn another page...
Maybe there is an appendix to his story. The epilogue was an epic ending.
How sad for his two children, that their father was a reckless dumb a$$.
Too bad the idiot is ineligible for the Darwin award, since he has reproduced-play stupid games, win stupid prizes...
The day someone-in any state-wants to check my citizenship status after hearing my surname, I will likely file a lawsuit, muy pronto...
Most of my family is right where they lived since the late 1700’s-SW/W Texas and SW New Mexico, but a few cousins who are tech types or dairy farmers have started farming or taken jobs with corporations in several northern states-even Alaska.
We are of Latino ancestry with surnames that reflect the fact-our family has been American since Texas became a state-1845-have an exemplary family background, and I can assure you we have no gang affiliation. While most of us prefer the warm southwest, it isn’t all that odd that some like the more frigid climates and prefer to live there...
“Here’s your sign” and a headstone do occasionally coincide.
Honey, I have a great idea...
But, now they throw the book at her.
What is that the tax code? Obamacare?
Haha! Or as in our rural S West redneck vernacular-aqui-sostén mi cerveza y mira esto...
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