Law & Order: Organized Crime crew member shot and killed while on Brooklyn set
The crew member—a parking enforcement officer—was pronounced dead around 6:00AM
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A crew member for Law & Order: Organized Crime was killed in a shooting on the series’ set this morning, multiple outlets confirm.
The man, who worked in parking enforcement, was shot while sitting in a car on set in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Per the NYPD, The 31-year-old worker, named Johnny Pizarro, was approached at approximately 5:15 AM by an unidentified assailant who came up to the vehicle, opened the door and shot him. Reports from Citizen indicate police were notified immediately, and confirmed the shooting by 5:22 A.M. The worker was transported to local Woodhull Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 6:00 AM.
In the wake of the shooting, production on Organized Crime was shut down for the day. The show is currently in the process of filming its third season. The worker was employed by a private company offering security—it remains unclear if the assailant had any personal motive against the victim or whether the shooting was a blitz of random violence. No arrests have been made in the incident at this time.
“We were terribly saddened and shocked to hear that one of our crew members was the victim of a crime early this morning and has died as a result. We are working with local law enforcement as they continue to investigate. Our hearts go out to his family and friends and we ask that you respect their privacy during this time,” a spokeswoman for NBC and Universal Television shared in a joint statement, per Deadline.
There remains to be official word on when filming for Organized Crime will resume. Like its sister series’, the original Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Organized Crime regularly films in public outdoor spaces in the New York area.
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For those who were too lazy to read the article, no, this is not a Rust/Alec Baldwin situation.
Look, until proven otherwise, I’m going to assume that Alec Baldwin shot this guy.
. . . but he didn’t shoot no best boy grip.
take your gloriously despicable star, sir
At least he didn’t shoot the deputy.
Filming in New York is already a chaotic mess. This is going to make it harder going forward
NYC has had everything including the 9/11 attack. No one gives a shit when it comes to filming there.
In what way? The crime, so far anyway, doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the filming.
Johnny Pizarro sleeps with the fishes.
Actually, the first thing I thought of was “one of the lesser known Sweat-hogs”.
I’m sure there’s some amount of state surveillance of everybody’s social media pages that could’ve prevented this. We simply aren’t surveilling hard enough.
Oh sure…blame the…um…internet?
A very Law & Order thing to do.Maybe they just need to enhance the surveillance video quality?
Is it possible that a New Yorker named Pizzaro who was working on a show about organized crimeMay have been a participant in organized crime at some point
…the fuck are you talking about?
How long until this shooting is worked into an actual episode of Law & Order?
“These stories just write themselves!”
I wanna see what lame-arse, clumsy fake name for the in-universe show they come up with and the actors have to say without gritting their teeth too much.“Yeah, he was a caterin’ assistant on show they’re filmin’ up in Queens. Called Legal Enforcement In The Pursuit Of Maintaining Peace.”
Surely L&O wouldn’t stoop to something so distasteful.Unless it happens on the Hudson University campus, the most dangerous college in America.
Yeah, I read about Hudson U on BFriendz.
They offer online classes via the deep web.
This sounds like the guy may have been in an NYPD vehicle or a Law and Order “NYPD” vehicle and someone wanted to offset their frustrations on an NYPD vehicle.
He was from a private security company doing parking enforcement, it says. He wasn’t a performer or anything. He wouldn’t have been in an NYPD car or a fake NYPD car.