Timothy Wilks, 20-year-old guy, was shot and killed on the spot in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday night in what the authorities say a YouTube video shoot gone wrong.
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According to report, Timothy Wilks, a YouTuber, was
shot by a 23-year-old David Starnes Jr., who is claiming the incident as self-defense.
Wilks and some friends were trying to pull a prank on strangers in the hopes of
making a viral YouTube video.
The shooting incident took place in the parking area
of Urban Air, a trampoline and adventure park in a strip mall in Nashville’s
Hermitage neighborhood.
The police say that Wilks and a friend approached a
group of people, both of them wielding butcher knives. Starnes was among those
people and not realizing that Wilks was filming a prank, shot him. Starnes told
detectives he was protecting himself and others from a perceived threat.
According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department,
no charges have been filed against Starnes, but an investigation is still ongoing.
Wilk’s video was apparently supposed to be a fake robbery, so it is not clear
if he and his friend could have faced criminal charges as well.