MINNEAPOLIS — A pregnant Monalisa Perez cried and pleaded with her boyfriend several times to put a stop to a YouTube stunt, but the man urged her on, dying after she fired a gun at him as he held an encyclopedia to his chest.

Norman County authorities released videos, evidence and transcripts Friday showing that Pedro Ruiz III, 22, methodically planned and directed Perez, who was 19 at the time, in the June 2017 incident.

Perez, 20, pleaded guilty in the case and was sentenced in March to 180 days in jail on one count of second-degree manslaughter. She also received a lifetime ban from owning firearms or profiting from telling the story of Ruiz’s death.

“I can’t do it, babe,” Perez told Ruiz at one point in a transcript from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. “I’m so scared.”

The videos show a heavily pregnant Perez begrudgingly going along, appearing winded and tired at times as Ruiz recorded several versions of the same action.

Ruiz said in his videos that he would post stunt videos weekly and hoped to raise money to support his endeavor.

He said he wanted to be “crazier” than famous stunt stars like the men behind MTV’s hit series “Jackass.”

“I may fail, but if I fail, I want to die trying,” Ruiz said. “We’re all going to die anyways. It’s just a matter of how and when.”

The couple bantered back and forth lightly at first in the videos, laughing and directing each other for what was supposed to be the first video on Ruiz’s YouTube channel. Perez already had her own channel, which included pranks and family-oriented videos.

“So, my channel is gonna be all the crazy stuff that Pedro does,” Ruiz said in one video. “Who’s Pedro? I’m Pedro, the crazy Pedro, the Pedro that makes you say, ‘Damn it, boy.’?”

Wearing a white V-neck T-shirt and white shorts, Ruiz promised antics that would balance out Perez’s “family vlogs.” The couple had a 3-year-old child and were expecting their second at the time.

Footage of the shooting was not released.

Through court records and Perez’s guilty plea, authorities know she was standing barely a foot from Ruiz when she fired a shot at him outside their home in the northwestern Minnesota town of Halstad as he held a hardcover encyclopedia against his chest.

A round passed through the book and killed Ruiz.