They say life imitates art, so for all of you wannabe actors out there, try aiming for stints on Sesame Street. Every other show seems far too dangerous.

Jamie Hector, who played Marlo Stanfield on the cult-favorite The Wire, held a baby shower for his wife over the weekend. Unfortunately, there was a shooting outside of the building where the baby shower took place and resulted in the death of a 17-year-old.

The New York Daily News reports that while Hector’s wife and family were inside their Brooklyn party in East Flatbush when the gun fire erupted.

It seems the people poppin’ their guns on the block were on a mission.

The gunmen were so adamant about getting the job done that one of them actually followed his victim to the hospital and fired another shot at him to try and finish him off.

Cops found at least 46 shell casings in a half-block radius at E. 93rd St. and Avenue B.

Yikes. I’m sure Marlo would be proud; I would be ducking and running.

A police source told the Daily News, “What a gun battle. They have been watching too much TV.”

You think?

Live and learn, thespians. I never heard about Big Bird and Oscar the Grotch getting in a knife fight on in their hood.

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