Killer gets 180-day sentence for YouTube stunt gone wrong

They planned on taking the Internet by storm with footage of Perez firing a gun at Ruiz, who believed that he could stop a bullet with nothing more than a hardcover book. There were a couple of issues with this plan. First, trusting a book to protect you from death, unless you’re boning up on how to make an anti-venom, is insane. Second, the pistol that Perez fired at her beau was a .50 caliber Desert Eagle. For the uninitiated, this is an insanely powerful handgun. With the right load, a round fired from it can bop through a bulletproof vest or pierce light ceramic or steel armor. In short, there was a very high probability that a book wasn’t going to cut it.

Despite this, Perez stood 30 cm away from her man and fired a single round. It went through the book! It went into him! He was killed! She got it all on tape, with not one, but 2 cameras. When Ruiz went down, she called 911 and told the operator what had happened. In December, Perez plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter. She was sentenced to 180-days in jail for the crime.

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