YouTuber shot during ‘prank robbery’ gone wrong

A 20-year-old Tennessee man was fatally shot while filming a ‘prank robbery’ for YouTube that went horribly wrong. Police say Timothy Wilks and a friend wielded butcher knives as they approached people at the Urban Air Trampoline Park in Nashville.  Believing they were in danger, one of the people in the group pulled out a handgun and shot Wilks. The stunt was being filmed for a YouTube video. The shooter says he was acting in self-defense.  Prank videos – including robbery pranks – are very popular on YouTube, but the platform cracked down on dangerous pranks in 2019.