{"id":8241,"date":"2017-06-28T20:57:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T00:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=8241"},"modified":"2017-06-28T20:57:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T00:57:38","slug":"us-woman-shoots-boyfriend-youtube-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/06\/28\/us-woman-shoots-boyfriend-youtube-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"US woman shoots boyfriend in YouTube stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Minnesota woman has been charged over the fatal shooting of her boyfriend, in what authorities say was a social media stunt gone wrong.<\/p>\n

Monalisa Perez, 19, was booked into county jail after shooting at Pedro Ruiz as he held a book to his chest, believing it would stop the bullet.<\/p>\n

The couple’s three-year-old child and nearly 30 onlookers watched as she fired the fatal bullet into his chest.<\/p>\n

Ruiz’s aunt said they did it to increase their social media following.<\/p>\n

Claudia Ruiz told WDAY-TV that her nephew had told her he wanted to do the stunt “because we want more viewers, we want to get famous”.<\/p>\n

“He had told me about that idea and I said, ‘Don’t do it. Don’t do it. Why are you going to use a gun? Why?'” Claudia Ruiz told the news channel.<\/p>\n

“They were in love, they loved each other,” she said. “It was just a prank gone wrong.”<\/p>\n

Ms Perez, who is pregnant, is facing charges of second degree manslaughter. She faces her first court appearance on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

County Attorney James Brue described the book as a hardcover encyclopaedia, and said the weapon used was a .50-calibre Desert Eagle handgun.<\/p>\n

Police have seized two cameras, which are said to have recorded Monday’s incident.<\/p>\n

The single gunshot was fired from about one foot (30cm) away as neighbours gathered to watch outside their Minnesota home.<\/p>\n

She told deputies that the stunt had been Ruiz’s idea, and that he had to convince her to do it.<\/p>\n

Earlier that day she tweeted about her reservations.<\/p>\n

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“Everyone was crying. I was standing behind that tree over there. And that was it. I just couldn’t take it anymore so I had to go back home,” neighbour Wayne Cameron told WDAY-TV.<\/p>\n

The couple had started a YouTube channel in March, aiming to show the “the real life of a young couple who happen to be teen parents”.<\/p>\n

Their most recently uploaded video, on the day that Ruiz died, was titled: “Doing scary stunts at the fair”.<\/p>\n

Last week Ms Perez told her viewers that it was a “blessing” to have her husband home for the forthcoming birth of their son, who is due in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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