A teenage couple, parents to a toddler and the girl pregnant with their second child were filming a stunt video for the YouTube channel. Pedro Ruiz set up the cameras and prodded his girlfriend, Monalisa Perez to shoot at a book he held in front of his chest with a .50 caliber Desert Eagle!!! Believing the book would stop the bullet. Needless to say, the book didn’t stop it and it entered Ruiz’s chest and he died at the scene. The video footage was taken as evidence and Perez was charged with manslaughter.
Fame seeking can cause terrible misjudgment. I struggle with charging the girlfriend with manslaughter. At least I don’t think she should do jail time. Ruiz prodded her to do it because he was confident the book would stop it and he wanted them to become famous.
I think there should certainly be a court case but that any reasonable judge would be minded to minimise the custodial sentence.
It was stupid, criminally negligent and should stand as an example of what not to do but I can’t see what benefit a lengthy sentence would have in this situation.
Looks like the Darwin Award is two children too late in this case. Not finding a lot of sympathy for the GF, since “shooting guns at people” is a thing 99.9% of the folks in this country have the sense not to do.
It may prevent the defendant from further procreation. Unfortunately, this event transpired after the culpable have already reproduced equal to their number and is therefore not eligible for a Darwin Award.
What happened here is the very definition of Manslaughter. If you cause someone to die but didn’t plan to purposely kill them (which is Murder), that is Manslaughter.
She fired gun at his chest. She should go to prison.
I like idea of having a person this stupid locked away from the rest of us. If she’s dumb enough to do this, what other things could she be convinced to do (shudder)? Sometimes the stupid people don’t have to be in large groups to create chaos.