Simmons said that his initial investigation found that the gun had been loaded by the special-effects person, not by Massee, the actor who fired the weapon. “One of the lead slugs could have come off its casing and lodged in the gun,” Simmons said. When the blank round was then inserted, the pistol could have discharged like a loaded firearm. Simmons said his interview of the special-effects person raised the possibility that the gun was loaded with the dummy bullet for a close-up shot and when the gun was unloaded the slug had become dislodged from the dummy shell casing and the tip had remained in the cylinder or the barrel. Simmons said that in talking to a special-effects man, who he would not identify, he learned that one of the dummy shells in the guncase was missing the slug from its tip. Wednesday, technicians on the set had unloaded the gun and placed it and the spent shell of a blank round into a plastic bag.

Simmons said that when he arrived at the set shortly after 2 a.m. Simmons said the detectives reviewed videotape made of the scene during filming, which also indicated that Lee’s right side was in line with the angle of the pistol that was fired for the scene.

Rodney Simmons of the Wilmington Police Department, who was the first officer at the scene, said that Lee’s injury appeared to him to be a gunshot wound. Initially, there was speculation that the explosion of the squib so close to Lee’s body caused his injury.īut Det. He was rushed to New Hanover Regional Medical Center, where he died after five hours of surgery and after receiving 60 units of blood.

After setting off the squib, Lee collapsed on the set, bleeding profusely from the right side of his abdomen.

At the moment of the shooting, Lee pulled a trigger hidden behind the grocery bag to set off “squib,” a small explosive device designed to create the appearance of the sack bursting when struck by a bullet. In the scene, Lee walked through a doorway carrying a bag of groceries and was shot one time by the actor Michael Massee, playing a villain in the film.

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