Pregnant 19-year-old fatally shoots boyfriend in YouTube stunt
Authorities arrested a pregnant Minnesota 19-year-old for fatally shooting her
boyfriend in a bid for YouTube fame gone wrong.
MonaLisa Perez was charged with second-degree manslaughter Wednesday in the
death of 22-year-old Pedro Ruiz III, the Star Tribune reported.
Around 6:30 p.m. Monday Ruiz held up a book while Perez discharged a
.50-caliber gun outside their home in Halstad. The pair had been trying to see
whether the bullet would go through the book, according to a criminal complaint.
Instead, the bullet struck Ruiz in the chest while the couple’s 3-year-old
daughter watched on.
Ruiz’s aunt, Claudia Ruiz, said it was part of stunt the couple intended to
share on YouTube.
“They were in love. It was just a prank gone wrong,” she told the Twin Cities
Pioneer Press. “I wish they wouldn’t have done it. I wish he would’ve just done
another prank. He was so young. He had so much going for himself.”
Perez has a YouTube channel that boasts a series of clips she and her
boyfriend made together, including their most recent video, “Doing Scary Stunts
at the Fair Part 1.”
“Imagine when we have 300,000 subscribers,” Perez says in the video.
She was being held in a regional jail in Crookston and is scheduled to appear
in Norman County court by video Wednesday afternoon.
“He told me he had an idea. I said, ‘Don’t do it, don’t do it. Why are you
going to use a gun, why?’” Ruiz told Valley News Live. “Because we want more
viewers.”
Source: New York Daily News
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