Brandon is my family and so is Bruce.
I have to know the truth.
The family of Brandon Lee is in mourning
and they are also angry.
It's the same mix of emotions they felt 20 years ago
when Bruce Lee died mysteriously at age 32.
Early reports said that 28-year-old Brandon's
fatal shooting on a movie set last week was an accident,
but now there's even talk of murder.
If I had a child and then for some reason,
I weren't around to take care of my child,
I would want whatever I had accomplished with my life
to be of a benefit to him.
Brandon Lee didn't have any children,
but he was planning on marrying
long-time girlfriend Eliza Hutton this month.
That was until tragedy struck.
(gunshot banging)
It was here at the Carolco Studios
in Wilmington, North Carolina
that actor Brandon Lee was filming The Crow.
Ironically, the film is about a man
who died and comes back to life
to avenge his death.
There had been so many accidents
on the set of this movie.
Journalist Julianne Garry was following
the strange goings ons at The Crow set
for Entertainment Weekly.
A carpenter was severely burned
when live wires connect
with the piece of equipment he was working on.
That was followed by two other accidents that same day
that the cast and crew started referring
to the curse of the crow.
Nothing ever seemed to go right.
One crew member from The Crow set
agreed to talk with us, but only if he remained anonymous.
People have tried to say it was haunted.
I don't know about that,
but there definitely was some bad vibes on the set.
Earlier last week, there was a sense of relief
on the set of The Crow.
The cast and crew had weathered all of the bizarre accidents
and there was only a week or two left of filming.
According to the Executive Producer,
all of the dangerous stunts were in the can.
Little did they know, that the curse of The Crow
was about to strike with more fury than ever.
Shortly after midnight last Tuesday,
Brandon Lee was preparing to film a routine action scene.
The script had called for him to get shot at
as he walked through a door carrying a bag of groceries.
Michael Massee, the actor doing the shooting,
is reportedly devastated by Lee's death
and remains in seclusion.
The gun he was using was supposed to be loaded with blanks.
When the cameras rolled, Brandon Lee was performing
for the last time.
(gunshot banging)
He was in, you know, critical condition.
Somehow at that point, I don't know.
I've got chills right down my spine
and I felt that he's not gonna make it.
Mr. Lee's heart stopped and efforts
to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.
Wednesday afternoon,
Brandon Lee was pronounced dead.
The autopsy revealed some shocking information.
A .44 caliber bullet was removed from Lee's body.
Detectives are proceeding with the investigation.
You don't see a .44 caliber slug on a movie set
and it's just that simple.
Ed Parker Jr. Is a martial arts expert and actor
who appears in the new film biography about Bruce Lee.
His father trained Bruce Lee back in the '60s.
He says some in the martial arts world
believe that Brandon Lee was murdered.
First talking about it being a projectile,
and then it being a .44 caliber slug
goes from an accident to murder.
Brandon Lee's publicist has been quoted as saying
it's no longer believed to be a special effect gone wrong.
He's asking for a murder probe.
Look, just let me ask you
whether it's gonna be a criminally negligent homicide.
Get outta here.
The DA on the case wouldn't talk with us,
but Sergeant JJ Lightner, the detective
heading the investigation did.
Has murder been ruled out?
Nothing's been ruled out.
I have a gut feeling, but I can't tell anybody what it is.
So who would want to snuff out
the life of this up-and-coming action star?
That was the same question being asked back in 1973
when Bruce Lee died mysteriously
from what the coroner listed as swelling of the brain.
Our whole family believes that he was murdered, okay?
The most popular rumor about Bruce Lee's death
was that he had been rubbed out by the violent asian gang
the Triad, that people believe
were linked to rivals in the movie industry.
It was in my father's opinion, not mine,
that there was definitely foul play involved
as far as the China Syndicate was concerned.
Because the facts in the Brandon Lee killing
are so sketchy, it has led to speculation
that he may also have been
the victim of foul play.
That theory seems to play out
when you consider the chilling plot
of his father's final film.
In Game of Death, Bruce Lee plays an actor
filming a scene in which he is shot at.
Gentlemen, these are blanks.
Unbeknownst to Bruce Lee's character,
among the actors shooting at Lee
is an assassin with a loaded gun.
(gunshot banging)
It's a chilling mirror image of what many say happened
to Brandon, but many of the mourners at a memorial
for Brandon Lee in Los Angeles yesterday
seem to dismiss the murder plot.
Terrible terrible accident happened on a set.
Others are still asking questions.
And so something is terribly terribly wrong here
and either you know, somebody's trying to murder him
or there's some kind of gross negligence.
The question remains.
Where did the bullet come from that killed Brandon Lee?
Some believe a piece of a prop bullet
without gunpowder in it
may have been left accidentally in the gun.
When the blank was fired at Brandon,
some feel it shot out the prop bullet,
mortally wounding him.
The movie was an accident waiting to happen.
The Crow crew member we spoke with
says that there were many opportunities
for an accident to happen.
Are the working conditions
on the set of The Crow particularly bad?
Extremely long hours,
18-hour days back-to-back at times,
pushing 90 to 100 hours a week,
six-day weeks is way too much.
Do you think that that overwork,
that exhaustion might've resulted in this accident?
Safety precautions, all of them,
were definitely not followed.
It could've been prevented with better management.
The publicist of the movie The Crow denies
that the working conditions were unsafe.
Certainly everyone was very tired and exhausted
from the shoot, but these are professionals
and they're used to working in conditions like this.
No matter what caused
Brandon Lee's tragic death,
it's another serious blow to the Lee family.