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Just hours before a US woman was accused of fatally shooting her boyfriend in a failed YouTube video stunt, she posted on Twitter saying it would be "one of the most dangerous videos ever" and it was "HIS idea not MINE".
Monalisa Perez, 19, told investigators Pedro Ruiz III wanted to make a video of her shooting a bullet into a book he was holding against his chest, the criminal complaint filed by the Norman County Sheriff Jeremy Thornton said.
The couple's three-year-old daughter and almost 30 others were watching as Perez fired the gun from about 30 centimetres away from Ruiz's chest, the BBC reported.
Authorities said Perez, from Minnesota, used a .50-caliber Desert Eagle pistol in the stunt, which is described by retailer Cabela's as "one of the world's most powerful semiautomatic handguns".
Perez, who regularly posted videos on YouTube of her and Ruiz performing pranks and stunts, had posted about the impending "dangerous video" on Twitter hours before it happened.
Ruiz set up one camera on the back of a vehicle and another camera on a ladder nearby, the criminal complaint said.
Perez, who is pregnant, was charged with his second-degree manslaughter. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
She has been released on about $9,100 bail.
The most recent posted on Perez's YouTube account was from the morning before the shooting, titled Doing Scary Stunts at the Fair, Part I, and showed the couple attending a fair the previous week.
"Imagine when we have 300,000 subscribers," Perez said in the video.
ABC/AP
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, death, murder-and-manslaughter, united-states
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