{"id":54818,"date":"2023-04-05T19:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/05\/youtuber-allegedly-shot-by-stranger-he-attempted-to-prank\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T19:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:15:15","slug":"youtuber-allegedly-shot-by-stranger-he-attempted-to-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/05\/youtuber-allegedly-shot-by-stranger-he-attempted-to-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber allegedly shot by stranger he attempted to prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/youtuber-shot-by-stanger.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>A 21-year-old\u00a0YouTuber\u00a0has plans of returning to the platform after he says\u00a0he was shot\u00a0while carrying out a prank at a mall\u00a0in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The YouTuber in question,\u00a0per a report from\u00a0WUSA9, is Tanner Cook. The 21-year-old, who releases videos via the Classified Goons channel, was hospitalized after the incident and later spoke with the outlet about what he says went down during the prank gone wrong<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just playing a prank, a simple practical joke, and this guy didn\u2019t take it very well and shot me,\u201d Cook said during an interview conducted while he was still in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Alan W. Colie, 31, is alleged to have shot Cook during the prank and has since been hit with felony charges in connection with the shooting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"3B80YdAeP90\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTuber speaks from hospital bed after being shot while making prank video at mall\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3B80YdAeP90?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In an\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoudounSheriff\/status\/1642575176058515463\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">initial statement<\/a>, the Loudoun County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed it was \u201cinvestigating a shooting that occurred at the Dulles Town Center Mall\u201d on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne person shot and transported to a local area hospital and a suspect is in custody,\u201d the department said at the time, adding in a follow-up news release that the victim (not named by the department) had been shot in the abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, police said, \u201cit does not appear\u201d that Colie\u00a0and Cook knew each other prior to their encounter in the food court area of the mall this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Colie\u2019s charges\u00a0include\u00a0aggravated malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and discharging a firearm within a building.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old\u00a0YouTuber\u00a0has plans of returning to the platform after he says\u00a0he was shot\u00a0while carrying out a prank at a mall\u00a0in Virginia. The YouTuber in question,\u00a0per a report from\u00a0WUSA9, is Tanner Cook. The 21-year-old, who releases videos via the Classified Goons channel, was hospitalized after the incident and later spoke with the outlet about what he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>YouTuber allegedly shot by stranger he attempted to prank - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/05\/youtuber-allegedly-shot-by-stranger-he-attempted-to-prank\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"YouTuber allegedly shot by stranger he attempted to prank - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A 21-year-old\u00a0YouTuber\u00a0has plans of returning to the platform after he says\u00a0he was shot\u00a0while carrying out a prank at a mall\u00a0in Virginia. 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