You know when they tell you your life passes before your eyes?

You think about everything that happened in your life and you wonder,

am I ready to die?

He was a Hollywood stunt man,

but this was no Hollywood stunt.

This was a hit. Shot four times and left dying on the floor.

Somebody definitely wanted him dead.

Will you be able to solve the mystery of who wanted him dead?

And why? You'll meet lots of possible suspects.

Oh my gosh.

Including his ex-wife, an actress, once married to movie mobster Joe Pesci.

But she had a strong alibi.

Do you know who shot here at work?

I don't know.

And that's only the start of a twist in his Hollywood mystery.

This is one of those stranger-than-fiction kind of things.

Certainly nobody would write a script like this.

The most stunning twist of all was what didn't happen.

My mom said, don't you f***ing die. That hit me harder than the bullets.

My mom never swore.

I'm Lester Holt and this is Deadline.

Tonight, as they say in Hollywood, the plot thickens.

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