Actors Shot At After Being Mistaken For Thieves During Shoot In Ghana

A movie-making scene turned bloody last week when a 19-year-old lad 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.

The bullet hit Agyei in the right shoulder.

The incident happened on the Bubuashie Olla Balm road during the shooting of a movie by the Joe Gray Movie Production House about 4 p.m. on February 28, 2014.

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”.

As part of the movie, a number of other actors came around and started shouting ‘Dzulor’, ‘Ewi oo’, while they ran after the men on the motorbike.

The eyewitness said she suddenly saw someone in a saloon car pull out a gun and fire three times in the direction of the men on the motorbike, but the shots missed them and hit the victim instead.