Actors, mistaken for thieves,gets shot!

 A movie-making scene turned bloody last week when a 19-year-old lady was shot and injured by a passerby who mistook the scene for a real-life incident. The man who delivered the shot, a driver of a saloon car, had heard people shouting ‘dzulor’, ‘dzulor’ (the Ga word for thief) and fired a gun from his moving car, injuring Solomon Agyei, who was standing in front of his mother’s shop and watching the actors and the production crew.

An eyewitness told the Daily Graphic that the producers were filming a scene which involved a lady’s bag being snatched by two men on a motorbike.According to her, she had seen one of the men on the motorbike snatch the lady’s bag “and the lady started screaming and calling for help to the effect that she had been attacked by thieves”.“I am sure when the man in the saloon car heard the people shouting ‘thief’, ‘thief’, he thought it was a real scene and so he decided to shoot the ‘thieves’ but he missed his target. It appears he is not a good marksman,” the eyewitness said, as she pointed to two bullet marks on a wall close to the shop.After the victim had been shot, she said, the driver of the car stopped briefly but onlookers, including the producers of the movie, were afraid to approach him, as he was armed.The victim was rushed to the nearest clinic and the case reported to the Kaneshie Police.

He was treated and has since been discharged.