'Law & Order' Crew Member Killed Near Set
by EG
A crew member near the set of the NBC series Law & Order: Organized Crime was killed this week when he was shot by an unknown person early in the morning. Details are sketchy at this time, and it's not clear if the crew member was actually working at the time of the shooting. The NYPD is currently investigating the crime. Read on for details.
Via Deadline.
More details are emerging about the fatal shooting of a Law & Order: Organized Crime crew member this morning as the New York Police department scrutinizes the violent crime.
A crew member on the NBC series told Deadline that he saw a man with “something under his shirt” running away from the scene. Also, it appears that the vehicle the victim — parking-enforcement worker Johnny Pizarro, 31, of Queens — was sitting in when he was shot multiple times had an orange parking cone on its roof at the time.
It appears that there was no security or NYPD officers from the department’s Movie and TV unit on the scene at the time of the killing, which happened at 5:15 a.m. local time.
“It is unclear right now if this was an established set or not, or whether the victim was close to where filming was supposed to occur,” a law enforcement source told Deadline.
We do know that the NYPD was at the scene of the shooting soon after it happened. However, their presence was in response to a 911 call. Very soon after police and others arrived, Pizarro was taken to nearby Woodhull Hospital Center in Brooklyn, where he was pronounced dead around 6 a.m. ET. No arrest has been made.
The shooting happened was near the vast soundstages of Broadway Stages in Brooklyn, it appears. That could mean that the there was no external filming on the Christopher Meloni-led show, and the victim was out on the street basically alone.
As interviews are being conducted and statements taken from potential witnesses, police sources tell Deadline that their investigation is ongoing. The probe is being run by a combination of the 94th Precinct detective squad and the Brooklyn North Homicide unit.
A rep for NBCU said that the company had no further information at this time beyond the official statement as this is an active NYPD investigation.
Get the rest of the story at Deadline.