YouTuber Tanner Cook Shot While Making Prank Video in Virginia Mall

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YouTuber Tanner Cook is connected the mend aft suffering a gunshot coiled portion filming.

The 21-year-old said helium was changeable inside Dulles Town Center mall successful Virginia portion signaling a prank video for his YouTube transmission Classified Goons. Cook, who was placed successful the ICU pursuing the shooting, suffered a slug coiled done his tummy and liver, according to WUSA9.

"I was playing a prank and a elemental applicable joke, and this feline didn't instrumentality it precise well," Cook told the section quality outlet from his infirmary bed. "He didn't accidental thing to me."

The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office confirmed successful a property merchandise that a shooting had occurred astatine the promenade connected April 2. Authorities did not place the victim, though they did sanction the fishy arsenic 31-year-old Alan W. Colie.

Per authorities, Colie was arrested and charged with aggravated malicious wounding, usage of a firearm successful the committee of a felony and discharging a firearm successful transportation to the incident.

"The shooting resulted from an enactment betwixt the unfortunate and Colie successful the nutrient court," the property merchandise read. " At this time, it does not look that the fishy and the unfortunate were known to each other."

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Since the shooting, Cook has undergone country for his injury, according to WUSA9. His dad, Jeramy Cook, told outlet that the contented creator was conscionable "trying to person amusive with people" erstwhile the shooting took place.

"We request restoration, we request healing, and we request to travel together," helium added. "I judge that God saved our son's life, and helium could person easy died but that's not the outcome. God has plans for my son."

E! News has reached retired to Cook and the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office for further remark but hasn't heard back.

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