A Dallas TV reporter reporting live from the scene of a police officer’s murder the night before was forced to take cover when a second shooting occurred during her live coverage.
KXAS reporter Allie Spillyards was wrapping up a story about a Dallas police officer who was shot and killed in front of the local NBC station during Friday’s 10 p.m. news.
Then there was an explosion that sounded like gunfire.
Spillyards was sitting in the studio with the presenter behind a split screen when she looked over her shoulder and her jaw dropped.
She was clearly scared and started to duck.
Friday night, what sounded like a shooting interrupted a live news report on KXAS, the NBC station in Dallas
As she takes cover, you hear the reporter swear.
“Oh sh-t,” the journalist is heard saying live on television.
Using profanity during a live news broadcast could result in an FEC violation for the station.
It is unclear what the reporter saw when she looked over her shoulder and whether she was injured.
Spillyards did not respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com.
Her station also did not immediately respond.
Reporter Allie Spillyard looked over her shoulder in horror
Later, Spillyards dove for her cover and disappeared from camera view
The shooting was edited out of the video the station posted on its website.
However, viewers in Texas who watched the live broadcast were concerned about the TV crew.
“Is she and the crew okay?” asked juanmtz214 on a Dallas Instagram Account.
Colleagues confirmed she was safe, but no further details have been released.
Ironically, Spillyards was reporting on Dallas police officer Darron Burks, who had been ambushed at the same location the night before.
Burks was sitting in his patrol car when he was approached by a man, identified as Corey Cobb-Bey, 30.
Cobb-Bey spoke to the officer, left, then returned to shoot Burks.
Two other officers who later came to check on Burks were also shot, but survived.
Cobb-Bey was later killed in a shootout with Dallas police.