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VIDEO: A journalist remains calm as a shooting erupts behind his back

A stray bullet hit a passerby, fortunately that an object in the back pocket of his pants prevented it from entering his body.

Jeff McAdam, a reporter for the US channel Fox 5, was broadcasting live on Monday when a shooting broke out near his position between a police officer and a driver.

The journalist was covering the decision to keep the San Diego International Comic Convention (California, USA) as a virtual event for the second consecutive year due to the covid-19 pandemic, when shots rang out behind him.

McAdam momentarily stepped out of the camera frame, but continued to report while casting intermittent glances toward the focus of the shots. Realizing that the shooting continued, he commented on what he was seeing: “there is something happening here in the distance. I think we have a shooting involving agents,” he reported.


According to him report of the San Diego Police Department, a driver was pulled over for running a red light, an episode that resulted in a gunfire between the man, who has not been identified, and a police officer.

Neither man was injured during the shooting, although a bystander was struck by a lost bulletFortunately, an object in the back pocket of his pants prevented it from entering his body. The man was taken to a hospital for evaluation and later released.

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