Crew member killed while filming COPS
Posted Aug 28, 2014 7:33 am.
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A crew member from the long-running COPS reality television series is dead after being shot while filming an armed robbery.
Police have confirmed that the deadly shot came from the gun of an officer who was aiming at a robber.
Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said witnesses and officers thought the robbery suspect’s airsoft handgun was real, but that it fires only plastic pellets.
Schmaderer says 38-year-old Bryce Dion who worked for Langley Productions and the suspect, 32-year-old Cortez Washington, were killed.
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