YouTube “prankster” gets shot at a mall for harassing a delivery driver.
Do you think the delivery driver is guilty? pic.twitter.com/Iiy1ATOKDz
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Delivery driver who shot a YouTube prankster acquitted by jury. 😮‼️ pic.twitter.com/MUVPCZ4txN
— DramaAlert (@DramaAlert) September 30, 2023
A delivery driver who said he was acting in self-defense when he shot a YouTube prankster in a mall food court in April has been acquitted of the main charge against him.
A jury on Thursday found Alan Colie not guilty of the primary charge of aggravated malicious wounding in the shooting of Tanner Cook, 21, who runs the “Classified Goons” YouTube channel, Virginia court records show.
But the jury was divided on lesser firearms charges, finding the 31-year-old guilty of the unlawful discharge of a firearm in an occupied dwelling, but not guilty of the malicious discharge of a firearm.
The charges of aggravated malicious wounding and malicious discharge of a firearm would have required the jury to find that Colie acted with malice.
According to the Associated Press, the verdict was reached only after five hours of deliberation, with the jury sending out a note about three hours in saying it was “divided in terms of whether the defendant acted in self defense.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/delivery-driver-shot-youtuber-pranking-103833578.html
h/t BFD