Did the staffer step into the line of fire while filming?
Via WFMY
The bullet that killed an employee of the long-running TV show Cops while filming a response to an armed robbery call was fired by a police officer, Omaha police confirmed Wednesday.
It turned out the suspect was only armed with an Airsoft rifle, which fires plastic pellets, Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said during a press conference.
The crewmember was identified by the show’s producers, Langley Productions, as Bryce Dion who was working as the sound technician during the incident.
The Cops crew was with police who responded to an armed robbery call at a Wendy’s restaurant around 9:20 p.m. CT when the shooting took place. The suspect and the Cops employee were both hit in the exchange and taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
The suspect was declared dead at the hospital.[…]
In June Schmaderer explained that he wanted Cops to film his department in action to put “the professionalism of our officers on display for the city and the world to see,” according to the World-Herald.