Reports: Gyllenhaal visits LA crime scene

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña, on a ride-along with Los Angeles police to research their roles as LAPD partners in the film "End of Watch," were taken to the aftermath of a gang shootout Wednesday night.

With their police escort, Sgt. Tami Baumann, the two actors were at the crime scene at Van Ness Park in South Central Los Angeles, reported the Los Angeles Times. An unidentified victim, who did not cooperate with police, had been shot in the lip and arm and was treated for nonlife-threatening injuries, the paper said.

Baumann, among other officers, had received a call to report to the Summer Night Lights anti-gang event, where gunfire between rival gangs had broken out at about 11:30 p.m., said E! News. The victim was on the ground and the suspects had fled by the time the actors and their escorts arrived.

Gyllenhaal's publicist, while not commenting on the specific circumstances, told E!, "Jake is doing research for 'End of Watch' and has been amazed by the professionalism of the LAPD."

Baumann herself has been portrayed on screen by Kathleen Munroe in the 2008 Hallmark Channel movie "Accidental Friendship," based on a 2003 LA Times article about Baumann and an animal-loving homeless woman she befriended.