Paparazzo on Malibu Stakeout Shot by Pellet Gun
A photographer who was staking out a Malibu home that pop star Britney Spears was believed to be visiting was shot in a thigh by a pellet gun Saturday night, authorities said.
Brad Diaz was among 15 to 20 photographers waiting 200 feet away from the home in the 2000 block of Carbon Mesa Road when he was struck by a pellet about 7:50 p.m., said Lt. Steve Smith of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Aug. 10, 2005 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Wednesday August 10, 2005 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 48 words Type of Material: Correction
Photographer’s injury --Articles in the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday California sections about a photographer shot by a pellet gun outside Britney Spears’ baby shower in Malibu gave an incorrect time for the shooting. Paparazzo Brad Diaz was struck in the thigh at 5:50 p.m. Saturday, not 7:50 p.m.
“They put a county Band-Aid on him and transported him away in an ambulance,” Smith said. “If there’s anything below minor, that’s what the injury was.”
He said it wasn’t known who shot the pellet but that Diaz may have been too far away for it to have come from the house.
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