tanner cook sho*oting video Jury acquits delivery driver of main charge in sho**oting of YouTuber.
Alan Colie shot YouTuber Tanner Cook after being followed at Dulles Town Center during a prank. Colie said he acted in self defense. Cook survived and continues to make videos.
Man who shot YouTuber on video at Dulles Town Center found not guilty by jury Alan Colie admitted to shooting Tanner Cook inside the Dulles Town Center in April, when Cook was filming a prank video. Colie says it was self-defense.
A jury on Thursday found a delivery driver not guilty in the sho**oting of a YouTube prankster who followed him around a mall food court earlier this year.
Alan Colie, 31, was acquitted of aggravated malicious wounding in the sho*oting of Tanner Cook, 21, who runs the “Classified Goons” YouTube channel.
The jury was split though on two lesser firearms counts, and decided to convict him on one and acquit him on the other.
The April 2 sho*oting at the food court in Dulles Town Center, about 45 minutes west of the nation’s capital, set off panic as shoppers fled what they feared to be a mass sho**oting.
Jurors saw video of the shooting, which captures the confrontation between Cook and Colie lasting less than 30 seconds.
The footage shows Cook approaching Colie as he picks up a food order. Cook looms over Colie while holding a cellphone about 6 inches from Colie’s face.
The phone broadcasts the phrase “Hey dip, quit thinking about my twinkle” multiple times through a Google Translate app.
In the video, Colie says “stop” three different times and tries to back away from Cook, who continues to advance.
Colie tries to knock the phone away from his face before pulling out a g*un and shooting Cook in the lower left chest. There is no pause between the moment he draws the we**apon and fires the shot.
