Overview
- In June 2017, Monalisa Perez shot Pedro Ruiz during a filmed backyard stunt intended to boost their YouTube following.
- Perez fired a .50-calibre Desert Eagle from about a foot away at a 1.5-inch-thick encyclopaedia Ruiz held to his chest, which failed to stop the bullet.
- Roughly 30 people, including the couple’s young daughter, were nearby as two cameras recorded the attempted stunt.
- Perez was arrested, later pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, and prosecutors described the death as the result of culpable negligence.
- She received six months in jail to be served intermittently over three years, ten years of supervised probation, a firearms ban, and a prohibition on profiting from the incident.