YouTube prankster Tanner Cook said in court on Tuesday that he had no idea he had scared or angered Alan Colie, 31, who ended up allegedly shooting him during a prank.

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office initially arrested Colie in connection with the April 2 shooting in the food court at Dulles Town Center and was charged with aggravated malicious wounding and two firearms counts.

Cook operates the "Classified Goons" channel on YouTube, which has over 55,000 subscribers.

The YouTube channel films "pranks" in public settings. In one video, Cook and a friend dress up as clowns and ride around a grocery store in handicapped scooters. 

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Another video shows Cook accusing people of stealing animals in PetSmart.

During Tuesday's hearing, jurors saw a video of the shooting that was recorded by Cook's associates.

In the video, Cook could be seen approaching Colie, a DoorDash driver, while he picked up an order.

Cook, who is 6-foot-5, could be seen holding a cell phone about 6 inches from Colie's face. The cellphone broadcasted the phrase "Hey dips—-, quit thinking about my twinkle" through a Google Translate app several times.

Colie could be heard saying "stop" on three separate occasions and tried to back away from Cook, who continued to advance towards him.

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Colie attempted to knock the phone away from his face before he allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Cook in the lower left chest.

Cook said during the hearing that he tries to confuse targets of his pranks for the amusement of his online audience and doesn't try to elicit fear or anger, but said his targets often react that way.

When Cook was asked why he didn't stop the prank despite requests from Colie, he said that he "almost did" stop, but not because he sensed fear or anger, but rather because Colie wasn't giving the type of expected reaction.

"It was stupid. It was silly. And you may even think it was offensive," prosecutor Pamela Jones said during the hearing. "But that's all it was — a cellphone in the ear that got Tanner shot."

Defense attorney Tabatha Blake said that the prosecution's accounting of the incident "diminishes how unsettling they were to Mr. Alan Colie at the time they occurred."

Cook's father, Jeramy Cook, told Fox News Digital previously his son is a "good kid."

Fox News' Audrey Conklin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

In a bid to avert a government shutdown by Saturday, lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled Senate released a "clean" Continuing Resolution (CR) on Tuesday that would keep the government funded through Nov. 17. 

The CR cleared a key procedural hurdle in upper chamber in a vote of 77 - 19 Tuesday afternoon, ending the debate on the measure and allowing it to proceed to a final vote.

"All through the weekend – night and day – Senate Democrats and Republicans worked in good faith to reach an agreement on a continuing resolution that will keep the government funded and avert a shutdown," Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement Tuesday.

The short-term CR includes only $6.2 billion allocated to Ukraine — an $18 billion decrease from President Joe Biden’s August request to Congress. Another $6 billion is allocated to natural disaster funding. The CR does not include any additional funding for border security like the House's version.

The House and Senate must come to some kind of agreement on how to fund the government by the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30, or risk a partial government shutdown.

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However, without unanimous consent from the upper chamber, it’s unclear how far the Senate’s CR will travel either. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., already said he would object to any funding patch with Ukraine aid, potentially placing the passage of the CR after the deadline.

"I will oppose any effort to hold the federal government hostage for Ukraine funding, I will not consent to expedited passage of any spending measure that provides any more US aid to Ukraine," Rand posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The Senate’s proposed CR, however, is worlds apart from its GOP-led House counterpart, where House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., indicated aid to Ukraine should be a standalone bill and may not give the Senate-authored CR a House vote.

McCarthy said the chamber would vote on a short-term spending bill soon after holding a key vote to proceed with four year-long appropriations bills on Tuesday night.

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"The Republicans will put on the floor a move to secure our border. I think that's the appropriate way to be able to keep government funded, secure border while we continue to keep government open to work on the rest of the appropriations process," McCarthy told reporters in the morning.

Schumer said Tuesday on the Senate floor, "We are now right at the precipice."

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"This bipartisan CR is a temporary solution, a bridge towards cooperation and away from extremism," Schumer said. "And it will allow us to keep working to fully fund the federal government and spare American families the pain of a shutdown."

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said, "We are eager to provide relief to communities recovering from natural disasters from Hawaii, to Florida, and bipartisan majorities recognize the ongoing need to counter Russia and China and continue to provide lethal aid to Ukraine."

"Over the years, I’ve been pretty clear in my view that government shutdowns are bad news whichever way you look at them. They don't work as political bargaining chips," he said.

The House is scheduled to deliberate on four distinct appropriations bills on Tuesday evening. However, it remained uncertain if McCarthy had garnered enough votes to advance them. He can only afford to lose a handful of Republican votes.