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While pranks and other hijinks of that sort have long been fodder for YouTubers and other Internet-savvy content developers aiming to gain followers, the line between harmless fun and needless danger is no longer as obvious as it once was. In a recent example of pranking gone wrong, a 20-year-old was shot and killed in Nashville as he and a friend were in the midst of staging a faux robbery.
It has been reported that on the night of Friday, February 5, YouTuber Timothy Wilks and a friend approached a group of people outside of a shopping center with an Urban Air trampoline park. Wilks and the friend were allegedly brandishing butcher knives at the time in the hopes of drawing out more horrified reactions for the video being recorded. That tactic apparently worked too well, as one of the faux crime s victims pulled out a handgun and shot Wilks, who died of the gunshot wounds in the same parking lot.