‘The Wire’ star Chris Canton shot, feared he would die like his character

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told Fox 5 Baltimore.“A shot rang out, and before I knew it I was blown up against a car,” the actor told the station, insisting he feared he would die.A bullet pierced his ear and fragments lodged into his head, said the actor — whose character was shot in the head by Omar Little in Season 5 of the David Simon show.“Now I can’t really hear out of this ear,” he told the station.Clanton admitted he has had previous run-ins with the law, but believes he was an unintended victim of the shooting.“I am pissed.

I am pissed because it’s uncalled for,” he told Fox. “My son was not far from this incident. He was in the vicinity. Luckily, he didn’t see what happened,” he said.Still, it is not yet enough to scare him off his troubled hometown. “I’m.