Cook runs a YouTube channel where he harasses and approaches strangers in shops, on the streets and in restaurants. Usually he is kicked out of the store or threatened with calling the police. Wrong this time.

At a shopping center in Virginia in the US, she approached a random man while a friend of hers was filming, she wrote Guard.

Cook allegedly tricked her with a Google translation program and took the phone in the man’s face, Cook’s father, Jeramy Cook, said. Insiders.

The man who was tricked allegedly pulled out a semi-automatic firearm and shot him in the stomach. The bullet must have hit the stomach and liver. Cook was admitted to intensive care and survived, but had to have his gallbladder removed. According to his father, he is now on heavy painkillers for the intense pain.

The father told Insider that he hopes his son will recover.

– I was doing a joke, a simple practical joke, and the guy didn’t take it well and shot me, Tanner Cook told local news channel Wusa from his hospital bed.

The video has been turned over to the police as evidence.

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A 31-year-old man has been arrested following the shooting and the case is scheduled for May. The suspect has previously been reported as violent towards public officials and his family, according to Insider.

In a post on Facebook that his father, Jeramy Cook, shared about the incident, there were hundreds of critical comments about the YouTuber.

– I really hope he learns from this and learns that joking and pushing people to this point is not good, wrote one woman.

The 21-year-old told the Wusa news channel that she has no plans to stop making prank videos for her channel, which has more than 40,000 followers, as it is her “big passion”.