LOS ANGELES, CA – A shooting near the television program “The Rookie” sparked a police search in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon.
Witnesses told police two suspects fired in the direction of an area where the set’s security officers were stationed and fired three shots just before 3 p.m. The filming took place in the vicinity of Hartford Avenue and West Fifth Street near Los Angeles Center Studios, Officer William Cooper of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Division. The star of the ABC series, Nathan Fillion, started at the time, reports TMZ.
The bullets hit a building near the designated location, TMZ reported. Officers searched for the shooters, but they escaped. Police did not release descriptions of the suspects.
No injuries were reported and no motive for the shooting is known, Cooper said.
The show is based on the story of the real LAPD officer William Norcross, who moved to Los Angeles in 2015 and joined the department when he was in his mid – 40s. He becomes the department’s oldest newcomer officer.
City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report.