This photo released by the Northwest Regional Corrections Center shows Monalisa Perez. Perez, of Halstad, Minn., has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz III in a videotaped stunt they planned to post on YouTube. The plea agreement calls for Perez to spend six months in jail and 10 years' supervised probation. She told investigators her boyfriend wanted to make a video of her shooting a bullet into a book he was holding against his chest. She says she fired from about a foot away. The couple had a YouTube channel where they posted videos of pranks and stunts. (Northwest Regional Corrections Center via AP)
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