Posted on 02/08/2021 2:37:22 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
OLD HICKORY, Tenn. (WKRN) – One person was killed in a shooting in Old Hickory near the Hermitage line Friday night, according to a release from Metro police.
It happened around 9:20 p.m. in the 4300 block of Old Hickory Boulevard at a building with several businesses, including a trampoline park.
Metro police said 20-year-old Timothy Wilks was shot and killed in the parking lot of Urban Air on Old Hickory Boulevard.
Detectives were told Wilks and a friend were participating in a “prank” robbery as part of a YouTube video and approached a group of people, including the shooter, with butcher knives.
A 23-year-old man told police he shot Wilks and wasn’t aware the robbery was a “prank.” Investigators reported he said it was in “self-defense.”
“This is like a huge kids area and when we were in there, there were a ton of tiny kids and it’s just like that would not be a great idea. Especially if anyone was walking out here or something like that,” Urban Air customer Emily Yeager told News 2.
No charges have been filed and the investigation is ongoing.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I hope the Darwin Winner has a nice prank funeral.
I have had knives pulled on me, and I have no sympathy for those who would do that to someone else.
So the funeral wont be on their Youtube video?
Of course the news calls the armed victim a “gunman”. Gotta add a sinister note to an obvious case of self-defense.
A stupid childish prank cost one fool his life and the man who killed him has to live with that for the rest of his days.
i would shy away from robbery pranks anywhere CHL’s are abundant
I love a movie with a happy ending.
Doing this ‘street theater’ at 9.30 pm made a bad situation even worse.
A few years ago there was a YouTube “prank” video of a guy wearing a Jason mask and holding a chain saw in a parking garage. When someone got off the elevator he would crank up the chain saw and chase them...
I sometimes wonder how it would turn out if he ever tried that with someone with a gun.
Prank?
Sure.
What a way to turn from the bad guy to the victim.
I can see more of these claims being made if this one actually gets traction.
It should be on YouTube. Imagine all the hits he could collect.
The term “prank” sounds like the lame excuse of the survivors, to avoid jail for armed robbery.
“Of course the news calls the armed victim a “gunman”. Gotta add a sinister note to an obvious case of self-defense.”
Not in this article!
No photos of the dynamic duo.
Was it really a prank. Calling it a prank gets his accomplices off the hook.
If true, it was monumentally stupid to involve non-actors. That’s not a prank, that is terrorizing innocents.
I believe it can still be considered armed robbery, even if it was one of those toy plastic collapsing knives. The ‘prank’ defense better have a lot of good evidence but as others said, it really doesn’t matter. There are 2 victims, one is dead and the other has his death on his head for the rest of his days.
I don’t know. I’ve seen some of these prank videos before and remember thinking at the time that someone’s going to get shot pulling this stuff someday.
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