Shooting halts filming on `Justified: City Primeval'
Filming on the Chicago set of “Justified: City Primeval” starring Timothy Olyphant has been halted until Monday after “two cars whose occupants were engaged in a gunfight smashed through the show's barricades” earlier this week, according to reporting by Deadline.
“Justified: City Primeval” is a continuation of the original “Justified” series, which ran on FX for six seasons from 2010 to 2015. The series is based on Elmore Leonard's stories about a fictional U.S. Marshal named Raylan Givens.
The shooting happened Thursday at about 12:45 a.m. in the 1400 block of South Sacramento Drive on the city's West Side, said Officer Camelia Clark, a spokesperson for Chicago police.
A 19-year-old woman was riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle when an assailant traveling in another car — a white Dodge Charger — shot her in the leg, according to Clark, who said the woman was taken in good condition to nearby Mount
Sinai Hospital.
Area 4 detectives were investigating but no one has been arrested.
Deadline's story noted that the cast and crew “hit the ground and took cover when the incident occurred near the city's Douglass Park.” Olyphant was present and a “tipster told Deadline that Olyphant shielded a production assistant from the gunfire but this could not be verified.”
The series has been filming in Chicago since early May. Aunjanue Ellis, recently Oscar-nominated for “King Richard,” also stars.
There was a shooting that disrupted another TV show in New York earlier this week when a crew member on NBC's “Law & Order: Organized Crime” was killed while working parking enforcement for the show.
FX did not provide a comment when contacted by the Tribune. At this time, the Chicago Film Office and Illinois Film Office have not provided additional details in response to a Tribune inquiry.