The man who was shot at the Dulles Town Center on Sunday said the alleged shooter was the subject of a prank video who “didn’t take it very well.”
Tanner Cook, 21, told WUSA that he was playing a joke on the suspect, Alan Colie, 31, of Leesburg, while a friend of Cook’s shot the video for a YouTube page.
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting happened at about noon when the two men got into a dispute in the mall’s food court. WUSA said Cook was shot through the stomach and liver. The sheriff’s office didn’t identify Cook, but a judge identified him during Colie’s arraignment, WUSA said.
“I was playing a prank, a simple practical joke, and the guy didn’t take it very well,” Cook told WUSA from his hospital bed.
Colie has been charged with aggravated malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and discharging a firearm within a building.
Cook’s family said they expect him to be fine. His father, Jeramy, said of Colie, “I pray for this young man and pray that he finds God in this.”
The mall closed on Sunday, but reopened on Monday.
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