Actor Arrested After Using Real Bullets

[Usually Lurkin]

This story just came over the yahoo! news site.
Does anyone remember this being the plot of a tv crime drama? (Law and Order? CSI?). I can't for the life of me remember where I heard this story before.

Actor Arrested After Using Real Bullets
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MEXICO CITY - An actor in an action scene apparently was handed a gun with real bullets rather than blanks, causing him to shoot and kill another actor, authorities said Thursday.



Actor Flavio Peniche — brother of internationally known soap-opera star Arturo Peniche — was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and then released on bail of $40,000 on Wednesday, according to the attorney general's office of Morelos state, just south of Mexico City.


The incident occurred on Saturday during filming of a low-budget movie, "The Scorpion's Vengeance," at a hotel in Cuernavaca.


According to a police report sent by fax to the Associated Press, the scene called for Peniche to shoot six people. After firing what were supposed to be two blanks, he realized that actor Antonio Velasco had been wounded and the crew ran for help.


Velasco died shortly afterward at a Cuernavaca hospital.


Police said they were still seeking the film's producer, Eduardo Martinez Sanchez, and a props manager known only as "El Cepillo" — "The Brush" — who disappeared after the incident.


Flavio Peniche has appeared in several low-budget action films, some released only on videotape.


His brother has starred in television soap operas that have been broadcast in many countries around the world, including "Maria Mercedes" with Thalia, "The Soul Has no Color," and "The Indomitable."

[madape]

The Crow - Brandon Lee.

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In the interest of keeping everyone informed I felt obligated to try and clear up any confusion caused by anyone reading this thread. The actress Thalia was mentioned, many of you may not know who she is....... Not any more!!!!!!

[Usually Lurkin]

Originally posted by: madape
The Crow - Brandon Lee.

This was the plot of The Crow? Or the cause of death for Brandon Lee?

[Big Boy Laroux]

i think the thing with lee actually was blanks... but blanks shot at close range can still be dangerous. I think his fatal wounds were inflicted with blanks.

Lee died during the shooting of The Crow. They finished the movie using darker shots and a stand-in.

i think lee was great in The Crow and had a very promising career.

but anyway, this sounds like an episode of CSI or law and order (like someone said).

[Usually Lurkin]

Originally posted by: Big Boy Laroux
i think the thing with lee actually was blanks... but blanks shot at close range can still be dangerous. I think his fatal wounds were inflicted with blanks.

This happened to some 80's tv star. Some guy on an action series. I think he was playing russian roulette.

I know I've seen a tv crime show where an actor was murdered by someone who replaced the blanks in a gun with real bullets. Just wish I could place it.

[Mandyahl]

ul, i agree with you...i have seen a show where this happened. i can't place it either though...so annoying!

[Nicky31]

Speaking of Brandon Lee. His dad Bruce Lee by what I have seen and heard on documentries had encoutered in alot of instances where other martial art experts engaged in combat with Bruce on movie sets, and directors tried to film those for fighting scenes for their movies.

I use to think acting would be a good career, but when you think about it:

First, it would take alot of living on nothing; acting in plays or T.V. commercials before you could be even lucky enough to get a leading role.

Second, then mental you would have to deal with issues like this.

I use to like the acting profession because all leading actors or actresses have to go out, and stay side-by-side of someone who is living the person they will be portraing, and this sounds like a very educationation way to make a living.