YouTuber gets in gunbattle in US home invasion, police say

In a YouTube video posted on Jan 27, Brady, who has 8.89 million YouTube subscribers, spoke of his reaction to being told by a detective that five people had been arrested. — AFP

A prominent YouTuber grabbed his 9mm handgun out of the drawer of his nightstand and shot back at two home invaders who first shot him in a terrifying home invasion, according to an arrest report released Monday.

The report offered more details from the Jan 12 ordeal in which Cordero James Brady, known on his social media channels as CJ So Cool, was shot several times in his Henderson home and was hospitalised with non-life threatening injuries.