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A Minnesota woman has been charged with manslaughter after she shot and killed her boyfriend as part of the pair’s attempt to become YouTube celebrities.
According to court documents, Monalisa Perez called 911 on June 26 at around 6:30pm local time to say that she had shot Pedro Ruiz III. The two had set up two video cameras to capture Perez firing the gun at Ruiz while he held a book in front of his chest. Ruiz apparently convinced Perez that the book would stop the bullet from a foot away. The gun, a Desert Eagle .50 caliber pistol, was not hindered by the book.
[...] A video filmed the day before the shooting features Perez excitedly imagining what would happen when the couple reached 300,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel.
According to a Star Tribune report citing a nearby television station in North Dakota, the shooting took place near the couple's home as their three-year-old daughter was nearby. An aunt of Ruiz, who was not named by WDAY-TV, was quoted as saying that she knew what they planned to do and that she tried to talk them out of it.
The aunt said Ruiz replied, "'Because we want more viewers. We want to get famous.'"
Perez, 19, was released on bail on Wednesday. She is pregnant with the couple's second child.
Further details from The New York Times:
Ms. Perez told investigators that she had shot Mr. Ruiz from about a foot away while he held a 1.5-inch thick book to his chest, the authorities said. She described using a firearm that matched the pistol that was found at the scene.
Mr. Ruiz had been “trying to get her” to fire the gun “for a while,” Ms. Perez told investigators, according to court documents. They state that he had set up one camera on the back of a vehicle and another on a ladder to capture the stunt.
To help persuade her to pull the trigger, Mr. Ruiz had even shown Ms. Perez a book that he had previously shot himself, she told investigators. In that case, she said, the bullet had not gone all the way through the text.
See also: CNN.
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Monday July 03 2017, @03:52PM (2 children)
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems. Who don't know how to use guns safely. I love the poorly educated, but everyone needs to know about gun safety. Very important. When you don't know, it's a problem. And YouTube has big problems too. They're demonetizing -- that's what they call it -- taking away the ads from conservative videos. The Young Turks, plenty of ads, great, I mean, it's not great, it's great for them. But go to a conservative channel? No ads. Where are the ads? YouTube took them away. And took away the money. No money for conservative vloggers, folks. Very unfair! Trust me, I don't need the money, I'm making plenty because I'm the President. But it's unfair to my conservative vloggers. And the babies are another problem. What happens is they're in Mexico, they're going to have a baby, they move over here for a couple of days, they have the baby. I don't think they have American citizenship and if you speak to some very, very good lawyers -- and I know some will disagree, but many of them agree with me -- and you're going to find they do not have American citizenship. We have to start a process where we take back our country. Our country is going to hell. 🇺🇸
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 03 2017, @04:22PM
That's funny because in the past six months I haven't seen unemployment decline at all. The jobless who were unemployed a year ago are still unemployed now. I see even more homeless beggars on the streets. I still see shuttered businesses everywhere. Retail spaces that were available last year are now abandoned as owners give up hope of ever renting. I see houses for sale that remain vacant while no one can afford to buy. The one thing I don't see is job creation happening.
I just searched for border wall jobs and I found nothing. Where are the jobs?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday July 03 2017, @04:24PM
Yes, that's right. When people see the submission they may think that it's White American rednecks being White American rednecks.
Well, it was a couple Mexicans -- and as we all know, they are "quick and dirty" people. They can fix your car faster and cheaper if you don't mind it falling to pieces in a couple months. Even White American rednecks know how to safely handle guns, and when they don't then it's deliberate, like that time when Gregg Allman had a foot-shootin' party to get out of the draft.