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Subject: RIP, Youtuber
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vampboy 9.02.21 - 04:47pm
YouTuber Shot and Killed While Attempting 'Prank' Robbery

A 20-year-old man was shot and killed in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday night in what police say was a YouTube video shoot gone wrong. According to a report by local NBC News affiliate WSMV, Timothy Wilks was shot by 23-year-old David Starnes Jr., who is claiming self-defense. Wilks and some friends were apparently trying to pull a prank on strangers in the hopes of making a viral YouTube video.

The shooting reportedly took place in the parking lot of Urban Air, a trampoline and adventure park in a strip mall in Nashville's Hermitage neighborhood. There, police say that Wilks and a friend approached a group of people, both of them wielding butcher knives. Starnes was among those people and, not realizing that Wilks was filming a prank, shot him. Starnes told detectives he was protecting himself and others from a perceived threat.

Nashville is known for having relatively relaxed laws on carrying both guns and knives compared to other parts of the U.S. An adult is legally allowed to carry a knife of any type or length, either concealed or open, so long as they don't bring it on school property. Meanwhile, handguns can be carried by anyone aged 21 or older. Even without a permit, a resident may carry a handgun openly as long as they're not also carrying ammunition.
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vampboy 9.02.21 - 04:48pm


Here is the late Youtube Star and on the right is his place of death. * +

3mel 9.02.21 - 04:58pm
heard about this yesterday. not the first YouTuber to be shot for a video, but the first to be shot by someone else. * +

3mel 9.02.21 - 05:19pm
actually remembering back, the guy I'm thinking of was shot by his girlfriend non maliciously... through a telephone directory... with a desert eagle!

dying for likes * +

shadow27 9.02.21 - 05:38pm
What kind of r*tarded-ass prank is that? * +

gt_tdi 9.02.21 - 05:52pm
Dumb kid got the fame he craved. Society lost an idiot. Seems fair. * +

robert555 9.02.21 - 06:06pm

Candidate for a Darwin award if he hasn't been killed? * +

ogdenz 9.02.21 - 06:08pm
There's somebody on Youtube who pranks leaving a bomb at various places. He drops a rucksack or parcel and runs like crazy..all the while dressed in arabic clothing and a false beard. I'm very surprised he hasn't been shot dead. * +

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