YouTube prank gone wrong leads to mall shooting in Virginia

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A YouTuber prankster, Tanner Cook, was shot and wounded by a man he was pranking at a mall in Virginia. Cook, who makes videos of himself pranking strangers, was playing a practical joke on a man when the man pulled out a gun and shot him in the stomach. The shooter, Alan Colie, was arrested and charged with aggravated malicious wounding, shooting in the commission of a felony, and discharging a firearm within an occupied building. Cook survived the wound and intends to keep making videos despite the incident.
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