A heartbreaking video captures the moment just after a popular YouTuber’s girlfriend was shot in the leg by her abusive ex-boyfriend in West Virginia on Friday, and the sound of the gunman then fatally shot himself.
YouTuber Hunter Avallone, known for debating conservatives online, was in his Martinsburg apartment with his friend Holle Peno, a Twitch streamer, when his 11-year-old ex showed up and shot through the door, hitting Peno in the leg. , wrote the streamer. Instagram.
Avallone, who has more than half a million subscribers, began filming moments after Peno was shot, noting in the footage that his landlord had warned him about a “shady” man on the property with a gun under his jacket.
A video by YouTuber Hunter Avallone captured the moments after his ex-boyfriend shot his girlfriend Holle Peno. Avallone and Peno were in their Martinsburg, West Virginia, apartment when the man walked through the door. @hollepeno/Twitter
Peno’s ex-boyfriend, referred to as Conrad in the video, committed suicide after shooting through the door of Avallone’s apartment, according to the publication. The couple had separated several weeks earlier, according to Peno’s social media accounts.
“I recorded the final moments as we hid on the back porch,” Avallone wrote alongside the footage showing Peno distraught and bleeding.
“You can hear him shoot at the police before finally taking his own life…in the fucking hallway of my apartment,” Avallone wrote.
Peno was shot in the leg. @hollepeno/Twitter
Avallone appears to be on the phone with police at one point in the video, telling them that the suspect is banging hard on the door and that they can hear screaming.
Voices can then be heard in the video shouting: “Show me your fucking hands! Show me your hands!” before multiple gunshots ring out and the video ends abruptly.
“I’m still trying to process this. Holle and I are physically fine, but mentally this is going to cause serious damage,” Avallone wrote. “Holle has been incredible and has been incredibly brave and strong throughout this ordeal.”
Peno, who has almost 17,000 followers, posted a emotional video to X on Sunday saying: “It feels like my soul has been ripped in half.
“Every time I close my eyes, I see him lying there,” Peno says between sobs. “I hate that that was the last time I saw him because he wasn’t all bad. “Sometimes it was good.”
In an Instagram post on Sunday, Peno said he was starting to “come out of shock.
“I feel so broken inside. “I loved him for 11 years despite the abuse and he couldn’t love me enough to let me go,” she wrote.
A GoFundMe created by a fellow Twitch streamer to cover Peno’s hospital bills noted that his ex attempted to shoot at police before taking his own life. As of Sunday afternoon, more than $4,000 had been raised.
Peno said after the shooting that he felt like his “soul was split in half.” hollepen/Instagram
“The money will be used to pay hospital bills and pay your own personal expenses for not being able to work, including therapy costs, travel, food, existing debts, and anything else you may need in the near future,” the fundraiser said. money. .
“Now that he has passed away, she will still have to pay the accumulated debt they both shared. “This fund is an umbrella meant to cover everything she can until she can get her life back on track,” she said.
The Martinsburg Police Department had no comment when contacted by The Post on Sunday.
The Twitch streamer’s ex-boyfriend tried to shoot at police before taking his own life. @hollepeno/Twitter
But in a statement to the Daily Mail, the department confirmed the incident, writing: “On Friday, December 8, an unidentified man arrived at the location armed with a shotgun. The individual fired the firearm through the exterior door of the building, injuring a female victim.
“Upon immediately responding to the scene, Martinsburg Police Officers engaged the armed suspect as he attempted to breach the interior door of the apartment while continuing to fire his weapon,” the statement reads.
“A brief exchange of gunfire ensued, causing the suspect to take his own life.”
Avallone did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on Sunday.
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