08-22-2003, 09:24 AM
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Please touch this.
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Master Thespian says, "Acting!"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...o_actor_killed
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Actor Arrested After Fatal Action Scene
Thu Aug 21, 9:42 PM ET
MEXICO CITY - An actor who said he thought he was handed a gun with harmless blanks has been arrested after shooting and killing a colleague during the filming of an action scene.
Actor Flavio Peniche was arrested on suspicion of homicide, according to the attorney general's office of Morelos state, just south of Mexico City. He has been released $40,000 bail.
The incident occurred on Saturday during filming of a low-budget movie, "Juana The Scorpion," at a hotel in Cuernavaca, the state capital.
"I was handed the prop gun, and did the scene as I was instructed," Peniche told The Associated Press Thursday. "When I saw the blood come from his chest, at first I though it was fake blood."
Peniche said he quickly realized actor Antonio Velasco, 42, was unconscious and called for help and tried to stop the bleeding.
Velasco died shortly afterward at a Cuernavaca hospital.
Peniche said Velasco was killed by a blank that contained too much gunpowder. But Morelos state prosecutors said it was a real bullet.
If convicted, Peniche could face a prison sentence of 8 to 20 years.
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