A 22-year-old Minnesota man was shot and killed by his pregnant girlfriend during a fame-seeking YouTube stunt gone awry.

While trying to rack up views and subscribers, Pedro Ruiz instructed his girlfriend to shoot a .50 caliber handgun at a book he was holding to his chest- presumably assuming the book would stop the bullet, Valley News reported.

Authorities responding to reports of a shooting outside a home in Halstad, pronounced Ruiz dead at the scene.

“I wish they wouldn’t have done it. I wish he would’ve just done another prank,” said Claudia Ruiz, the victim’s aunt.

The couple had filmed and posted YouTube pranks before, including one where Ruiz’s 20-year-old girlfriend Monalisa Perez fed him a donut topped with baby powder.

But they hoped their latest prank would help them be YouTube celebrities, the aunt said.

“He told me about an idea. I said, don’t do it don’t do it,” Claudia Ruiz said. “Why are you going to use a gun? Why? Because we want more viewers.”

Perez is the mother of the couple’s 3-year-old and 7 months pregnant with their second child. She was charged with reckless discharge of a firearm, authorities said.

“The fact that she has got to live with this for the rest of her life, that alone, is a charge to me,” the aunt continued, adding that the child, a boy, would be named after his father.