A Brooklyn filming location for a headline-grabbing TV crime show turned into a murder scene early Tuesday when a man enforcing the production’s parking restrictions was fatally shot while sitting in a car, police said.
The killing happened on North Henry Street near Norman Avenue in the Greenpoint neighborhood as a crew from the crime show “Law & Order: Organized Crime” was preparing to film on the block, according to police and flyers posted there.
Police identified the victim as Johnny Pizarro, 31, of Queens.
Mr Pizarro, whose job it was to make sure the street was clear so vehicles associated with the show could park, was sitting in a car when a lone gunman approached the vehicle, opened the door and shot him in the head and neck, police said. He was taken to Woodhull Hospital Center in Brooklyn, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
As of Tuesday afternoon, no arrest had been made and no motive had been established, police said. A short, thin man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and dark pants was seen running from the scene of the shooting, police said.
“Law & Order: Organized Crime,” which airs on NBC and stars Christopher Meloni, is the latest iteration of the enduring crime procedural franchise created by producer Dick Wolf. It is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment, and is currently filming its third season.
“We were terribly saddened and shocked to learn that one of our team members was the victim of a crime early this morning and has died as a result,” a spokesperson for NBC and Universal Television said in a statement. “We are working with local law enforcement as they continue to investigate.”
The block where the killing took place is in the 94th Precinct, an area where serious crime is relatively rare, according to police statistics. There had been no homicides in the precinct this year as of Sunday, the data show.
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