We all thought back then that the Bruce Lee family must be haunted considering the way Bruce died and now his son dying a mysterious death.There were all kinds of agendas,speculations and allegations.
Bruce Lee age at death was 32,his son was 28 when he met his untimely death.A very young age for
both father and son.
both father and son.
But today we reveal how Brandon Lee actually died.We also examine the grief that the man who shot him went through for the rest of his life.
Brandon Lee in coffin at lying in ceremony following his death on a movie set. |
Michael Massee. |
Bruce Lee in his coffin at lying in state following his death at age of 32. |
Michael Massee,was playing a character in the movie on the set of “The Crow”when he fired a gun that accidentally killed Brandon Lee in 1993.
The film starred Mr. Lee, the 28-year-old son of the martial-arts star Bruce Lee, as a rock musician who returns from the dead to wreak havoc on the gang members who murdered him and his fiancée.On the night of March 30, 1993, Mr. Massee was filming a scene in which Mr. Lee’s character dies. Mr. Lee was supposed to walk into an apartment and encounter four gang members attacking his lover, and Mr. Massee, as one of the thugs, was supposed to shoot him at close range with a revolver loaded with blanks.But when Mr. Massee pulled the trigger, the gunpowder in the blank cartridge ignited and fired a fragment of a bullet — probably part of a dummy shell that had been left in the gun’s barrel from an earlier scene — into Mr. Lee’s midsection. Mr. Lee collapsed and after hours of surgery, died in a hospital.The shooting was ruled an accident. Devastated, Mr. Massee took a long sabbatical.“I don’t think you ever get over something like that,” he told the entertainment news show “Extra” in 2005.
Michael himself died on Oct. 20 in Los Angeles. He was 64.The cause was stomach cancer, said his wife, Ellen.Mr. Massee had appeared in two films,
Additional Story source NYT
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