A popular youtuber from USA known for make videos where he makes fun of people He has no intention of stopping. Even after one of his “victims” almost killed him with a shot in the stomach. There are people who don’t learn.

The influencer is called Tanner Cook e it has nearly 40,000 subscribers on his Classified Goons channel on YouTube.

There, Cook, who is 21, regularly uploads videos that they show him cracking jokesmany of them heavy, to the strangers he meets on the street or in the company.

However, his record of coming out unscathed by his outrages ended when one of his usual practical jokes it nearly killed himliterally.

In this case, the scene of his “deadly” prank was a mall in the Washington suburb of Dulles, where one man reacted with unusual violence.

Cook was with a friend who was filming him on a cell phone. In a moment, youtuber meets man who, as he usually does, annoys him with his “joke”.

However, it seems that the man, identified as Alan Colie, did not take the joke very well and his reaction was as unexpected as it was brutal: he pulled out a pistol and shot Cook at point blank range.

The shot struck Cook in the stomach but he survived the wound and had to undergo surgery after first responders They will take him to the hospital in critical condition..

“I was making a…simple…joke, ethis guy didn’t take it very well”, Cook told local television station WUSA from his hospital bed, where he is recovering.

Cook added that the man who shot him “he said nothing” before shooting him, which authorities said also caused panic among mall-goers.

Cook filed a criminal complaint against Colie, who is 31, after the shooting, according to the Loudoun Times-Mirror. The complaint did not specify the reason for the attack, stating so it is only the result of an interaction between Colie and Cook.​

After the accident, the police found Colie sitting in the food court from the mall with his gun on the table.

Videos of his “jokes” pile up on Cook’s channel. Sometimes the people in the clips are provoked to dramatic reactionsS. In one video, a man being teased runs towards the camera and in another clip, a store manager calls the police.

The shooting certainly appears to be the more violent response for Cook. He told WUSA that the video was captured by his friend had been handed over to the investigators.

The researchers said that Colie he had been accused of violent behavior at least once before the episode. And that Cook was unaware of this background.

The Loudoun Times-Mirror newspaper says Colie’s father accused his son of hit him twice in the head in 2012. In that case, Colie allegedly told police he was angry for a few minutes and wasn’t sure what happened next.

That time the police arrested the man for assault and batterybut the case was dropped in 2014.

A judge ordered Colie held without bail after Cook’s shooting. And he has set a preliminary hearing in the case scheduled for early May.

Meanwhile, the county’s chief prosecutor said Washington Post that Cook could be charged separately if evidence emerges that he threatened or touched Colie.

The prosecutor added, again according to the Post, that the collection of evidence in the case was underway and that video footage showed Cook following Colie from the mall.

Cook’s father Jeramy said he and his family were confident he would make a full recovery. “We live by faith, not scared,” Jeramy Cook told WUSA.

Jeramy added it too he couldn’t believe a prosecutor would consider indicting his son and argued that her son had a constitutional right to free speech to make his prank videos.

Finally, Cook dhe made it clear that he’s not mad at Colie. He also said that he doesn’t intend to let the shoot stop him from making more videos, because this is the passion of his life.

“I am fine”Cook closed.

Source: The Guardian