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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Staged.
Should have shot him in the head.
It could have been but taking a bullet is a helluva staged event, a small mistake and you are dead.
I think it waw more of a case of FAFO.
I love it when Karma strikes these online goons.
The idiot prankster is the one that should be arrested for aggravated assault / harassment.
Sounds like he specifically went out of his way to harass this guy.
So I’d let the shooter go. And suggest he sue the cellphone guy.
Yeah some of those pranks I’m not so sure are staged. I think they make so much money from monetization that it’s worth it to them. There’s one guy that messes with street thugs all the time. It could be staged who knows.
I like reading these stories.
Been carrying for over 15 years and value mental exercises of, “What would I do if this happened to me?”
Head on a swivel, FRiends.
Classified Goons....well I’ll give him truth in labeling at least.
Too bad the little punk lived.
“YouTube prankster Tanner Cook”
What an a**hole.
Always double-tap.
Trying...
Trying harder...
Nope, can’t seem to work up a tear for the idiot.
FAFO indeed, and I guarantee the idiot will be out doing it again to support his addiction to his new found fame.
Maybe next time he will get hit center mass and can contribute to society by dissuading other idiots from this kind of crap.
There was case recently when a guy staged a plane crash by bailing out before it crashed.
Anything is possible, taking a bullet is a big and risky thing to stage, not only for the guy taking the bullet, the guy doing the shooting could have been convicted and sent to significant jail time for staging a prank, seems really extreme.
The shooter should not be facing any charges at all.
Spot on.!
Staged? It went to trial. What are you talking about???
“Stupid is supposed to hurt!” Lurker’s Grandfather.
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Punk laying in the hospital still thinks he’s a bad ass
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