“We know these pranks are designed to generate confusion and frustration. His lawyer, Adam Pouilliard, argued Wednesday that Colie's actions were reasonable under the circumstances.ħ1-year-old Southeast Texan opens one-man art showĬook “is making money by causing fear” in those he targets, Pouilliard said. The charges against him include aggravated malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. That's where sheriff's deputies found him and took him to the hospital.Ĭook said the shooting ruptured his liver and left him scarred.ĭeputies found Colie in the food court, where he surrendered peacefully. "I had to double check I was shot because I didn't feel anything at first."Ĭook fled the food court, and eventually collapsed outside a Cheesecake Factory when he thought he'd reached safety. “I was kind of in shock,” Cook testified Wednesday at Colie's preliminary hearing in Loudoun County General District Court. Then, Cook said, when the two were separated by a small distance, Colie pulled out an handgun and shot him in the abdomen. On cross-examination, he acknowledged that he stuck his phone about six inches (15 centimeters) from Colie's face while the translate app repeated the phrase “Hey dips-, stop thinking about my sparkle” in English and Spanish.Ĭolie backed away from the 6-foot-5 Cook (196 cm), who kept advancing toward Colie even as Colie said “no” and “stop” and pushed Cook's arm away. But Cook's pranks were unfamiliar, confusing and frustrating to Alan Colie, the man charged with shooting Cook while he and his team surrounded Colie last month for their latest joke.Ĭook, who has more than 50,000 subscribers to his “Classified Goons” prank channel on YouTube, testified for the first time Wednesday about the shooting inside the mall, which prompted a massive police response and panic from callers reporting an active shooter.Ĭook, 21, acknowledged that he and a cohort approached Colie at the mall's food court while two others filmed the prank from a short distance away.Ĭook described the prank as playing “funny words” on a Google translate app and watching Colie's confused reaction.
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