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Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Actor Chris Clanton is speaking out after recently surviving a shooting in Baltimore – the crime-plagued city where he appeared in "The Wire," a 2002-2008 TV series about the city’s drug trade and other urban ills. A bullet pierced one of his ears and left fragments in his head, Clanton told Baltimore’s FOX 45 about the shooting, which happened around 7 p.m. last Thursday. Clanton said he thought he was going to die. He said the impact from the shot knocked him up against...

Mr. Clanton said he still can’t hear out of his left ear after a bullet pierced it and left fragments in his head. “I am pissed,” he said. “I am pissed, because it’s uncalled for. My son was not far from this incident. He was in the vicinity. Luckily, he didn’t see what happened.” “I’m from here, I love it,” he said. “Like, this is where I’m from. I’ll always embrace it, but something has to change.” Mr. Clanton said he doesn’t believe he was the intended target of the gunfire, and that a Baltimore police officer’s quick response saved his life.