Mark Wahlberg (Photo : Reuters)
"Entourage" actor Mark Wahlberg's childhood friend Paul Campbell, 49, was fatally shot by police officers at his Massachusetts home in the early morning of Jan. 19, Monday.
Responding to a 911 call from the home, two police officers found Campbell distressed and armed with at least one knife at the home he shared with his mother Patricia, 72, who was found at the front of the house dead of multiple stab wounds, NBC affiliate WHDH reported.
"This is an ongoing investigation and it is not my place to speculate on why or how this happened," Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said in a statement, according to the NBC affiliate.
Campbell has a daughter with Walsh's current girlfriend.
After both the police officers who decided to shoot him both struck him, Campbell was taken to South Shore Hospital. He was pronounced dead in the hospital. It is yet to be confirmed whether or not the police officers' decision to shoot Campbell was justified.
Childhood friends with Wahlberg, who is a Boston native, Campbell played small roles in several Hollywood movies, such as a guy in line in the 2012 comedy "Ted," which starred Wahlberg opposite Seth MacFarlane and Ashton Kutcher's fiancée Mila Kunis.
Directed by MacFarlane, "Ted" also starred Joel McHale, Giovanni Ribisi, Patrick Warburton, Matt Walsh, Jessica Barth, Aedin Micks, Mill Smitrovich, Patrick Stewart, Nora Jones, Robert Wu, Max Harris, Melissa Ordway, Laura Vandervoort, John Viener, Alex Borstein and Ginger Gonzaga, among others.
Meanwhile, Wahlberg was recently spotted on a Barbados beach, Daily Mail reported.
The actor has yet to comment on the Campbell's death.
