L.A.'s Finest Co-Showrunner Has Leg Partially Amputated After On-Set Crash
A stunt on the set of L.A.’s Finest has taken a very real toll: Co-showrunner Brandon Sonnier had to have one of his legs amputated below the knee after a car stunt went horribly wrong on set.
Sonnier and his fellow executive producer/co-showrunner Brandon Margolis — who were both previously writers on NBC’s The Blacklist — were both injured in the accident last Thursday, our sister site Deadline reports. A stunt car crashed into a cargo crate, which then smashed into the “video village” area where Sonnier, Margolis and other producers were watching the stunt on monitors. Margolis suffered minor injuries and was quickly released, but Sonnier remains hospitalized. An investigation is currently underway to determine what went wrong and how to prevent a similar tragedy from happening in the future.
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