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Man killed while filming ‘prank robbery’ video for YouTube [Darwin Aa ward winner]
WKRN ^ | 2/6/21 | WKRN web staff

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.


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It was a "pretend robbery" for youtube. Yea, that's what it was.
1 posted on 02/08/2021 2:37:22 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


2 posted on 02/08/2021 2:39:32 PM PST by MercyFlush (Donald Trump is my President and Free Republic is my social media!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


3 posted on 02/08/2021 2:41:47 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Here's Your
Darwin Award
Enjoy

Click the Pic

4 posted on 02/08/2021 2:42:02 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Pollster1

So the funeral wont be on their Youtube video?


5 posted on 02/08/2021 2:44:03 PM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Of course the news calls the armed victim a “gunman”. Gotta add a sinister note to an obvious case of self-defense.


6 posted on 02/08/2021 2:44:14 PM PST by Hazwaste (Socialists are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


7 posted on 02/08/2021 2:46:38 PM PST by dainbramaged (Windage and Elevation)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

i would shy away from robbery pranks anywhere CHL’s are abundant


8 posted on 02/08/2021 2:50:44 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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Man killed while filming ‘prank robbery’ video for YouTube

I love a movie with a happy ending.

9 posted on 02/08/2021 2:56:08 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Doing this ‘street theater’ at 9.30 pm made a bad situation even worse.


10 posted on 02/08/2021 3:00:50 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


11 posted on 02/08/2021 3:17:25 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


12 posted on 02/08/2021 3:19:26 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: max americana

It should be on YouTube. Imagine all the hits he could collect.


13 posted on 02/08/2021 3:23:29 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The term “prank” sounds like the lame excuse of the survivors, to avoid jail for armed robbery.


14 posted on 02/08/2021 3:38:57 PM PST by BeauBo
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“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!


15 posted on 02/08/2021 3:39:20 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

No photos of the dynamic duo.


16 posted on 02/08/2021 3:42:05 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Was it really a prank. Calling it a prank gets his accomplices off the hook.


17 posted on 02/08/2021 3:45:42 PM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

If true, it was monumentally stupid to involve non-actors. That’s not a prank, that is terrorizing innocents.


18 posted on 02/08/2021 3:53:30 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: BeauBo

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.


19 posted on 02/08/2021 3:56:20 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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“The term “prank” sounds like the lame excuse of the survivors”

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.

20 posted on 02/08/2021 4:14:23 PM PST by circlecity
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