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YouTube prankster shot dead after ‘lunging at strangers with butcher knives while filming fake robbery video’
A YOUTUBE prankster was shot dead while filming a fake robbery, police said.
Timothy Wilks, 20, is said to have lunged at strangers with butcher knives so he could record their terrified reactions.
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He was gunned down in the parking lot of Urban Air trampoline park in Nashville, Tennessee, just before 9.30pm on Friday.
Metro Nashville police said they believed Wilks was filming a robbery prank for a YouTube channel.
Officers were told Wilks and a friend approached a group of people with butcher knives.
One of the group, David Starnes, 23, pulled out a gun and opened fire, police said.
He told detectives he did not know it was a prank and was acting to defend himself and his friends.
Homicide detectives are investigating the shooting.
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No charges have been filed against Starnes, or Wilks' unnamed friend.
One lawyer told : "I'm sure the people involved would like to characterize this as a prank.
"But it certainly seems to be a prank that went seriously awry."
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