A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting her boyfriend at a videotaped stunt that they intended to article on YouTube.

The Star Tribune reports that 20-year-old Monalisa Perez pleaded guilty last week to second-degree manslaughter at the June death of 22-year-old Pedro Ruiz III.

Perez and Ruiz were also recording the stunt to get their YouTube station. Ruiz persuaded Perez to take him at close range with a pistol, while he held a thick novel before his torso -- presuming the publication would halt the bullet.

To convince Perez, the guy presented another publication, with a bullet hole on both sides and no exit pit, as proof that the publication he had been to hold facing him would block the bullet, authorities said.

Her words:

“Me and Pedro are probably going to shoot one of the most dangerous videos ever,” Perez wrote on Twitter prior to performing the stunt. “HIS idea not MINE.” With video cameras recording, Perez pulled the trigger.

The bullet pierced the book and fatally wounded Ruiz, who then died at the scene. In an agreement with prosecutors, Perez agreed to serve three months in jail in one-month increments over three years, and then serve the other three months under house arrest.

She will be formally sentenced in February. Although Perez has already agreed with prosecutors to the six month term, at the sentencing hearing the judge can ignore that and impose a longer sentence. In such cases people usually have the right to rescind their guilty plea and go to trial.

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