Posted on 10/02/2023 5:31:26 AM PDT by DoodleBob
This is the shocking moment a 21-year-old YouTuber prankster's stunt went badly wrong when a deliver driver he was targeting pulled out a gun and shot him in the chest.
Video shows Tanner Cook, 21, who runs the Classified Goons YouTube channel, harassing Alan Colie as he picked up a food order at the Dulles Town Center mall in Sterling, Virginia, on April 2.
Cook can be seen following Colie around the mall while thrusting his phone in his face as it plays the bizarre phrase, 'Hey dips**t, quit thinking about my twinkle' multiple times using a Google Translate app.
Colie backs away from Cook and tells him to stop three times before trying to knock the phone away from his face as the YouTuber continues to advance towards him.
It was at this point that Colie's stunt went badly wrong when the delivery driver pulled out a gun and shot the YouTuber in the lower left chest.
The shooting sparked panic as shoppers fled what they feared to be a mass shooting as police officers pinned Colie to the ground and arrested him. He was charged with aggravated malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and discharging a firearm inside a building.
But last week, Colie, who has a license to carry a concealed weapon, was found not guilty of aggravated malicious wounding in the shooting after he said he was acting in self defense.
He was found guilty on a lesser charge of shooting into an occupied dwelling but a judge will hear arguments to set aside this conviction at a hearing next month after his lawyer appealed against it. If found guilty of this lesser firearms count, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
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Apparently this clown hasn’t learned. Here is a Youtube of him pranking at the airport and getting detained. This was posted about a month ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNI9edZzAxw&ab_channel=ClassifiedGoons
He was committing assault and battery. Plenty of justification for shooting him.
This dumbass isn't exactly lighting it up on YouTube.
Ask Dan Rather about that.
6’ 4” guys need to take heed. If you f with a small guy he has two choices; run away or kill you.
It’s rediculous... he had been thrown out if not trespassed from the mall the day before for similar behavior.
I refer you to post #80.
That is my final answer.
From the perspective of the defendant, the perp had plenty of room to continue following too.
And who knows what he'd do next? Two guys, both bigger than him and aggressive while stuck holding packages.
Should he have waited til he got knocked down and be in a spot where he may not have been able to use his firearm if they jumped on top of him?
It is unquestionably assault, BTW, and given the disparity of force the victim of assault should be assumed to have believed himself to be in danger of bodily harm.
Good shoot.
Don’t want to get shot? Don’t assault people.
The TWO assailants both deserved a bullet.
Threat disparity. Delivery guy had his hands full and two idiots approached him, shoved a phone in his face and continued after he told them to stop. Good shoot.
What about when a man relentlessly follows and tries to pick up a woman? Should she shoot him?
Or, how about annoying salespeople who won’t leave you alone? Yes, we may want to shoot them, but should we be allowed to?
Yes. Also when a woman relentlessly follows and tries to pick up a man.
FAFO.
Both depend on the nature of the threat. In this case, there was a threat disparity and the shooter had attempted to get the shoootee to stop and tried to remove himself from the situation, only to be pursued by two people.
Well, maybe if he would have hit him in the head.
Yes, if their behavior poses a possible threat.
I'll throw the "when" question back to you, in the case of rape:
Chick gets the creeps from a guy on the other side of a parking lot at night, say 50' away. He starts walking towards her. She tells him to stay away from him but he keeps getting closer. She says shes armed.
So is it ok for her to shoot:
-as soon as she finishes saying she's armed
-when he's 10' away
-when he's within arm's reach
-when he grabs her arm
-when she's on the ground
-when he starts pulling clothes off
-when he whips it out
-when he penetrates
I say the 10', but I'm sure there's at least one leftist DA out there that would say that since he never actually hit her and wasn't armed, you couldn't know his true intentions until the actual moment of penetration. He may have just wanted to rub his thingy on her.
More “pranksters” need eliminated.
21 feet. See the Tueller drill for details.
This case didn’t happen in a lonely, dark parking lot at night. These were two idiots in a shopping mall. They should’ve been arrested and charged for harassing people. I don’t feel sorry for the prankster. But, I’ve had far more threatening encounters with strange people, so I think the delivery man overreacted. Apparently, the rest of you disagree with me, so we’ll have to leave it at that.
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