Houston film crew robbed by Houston man in front of 'We Love Houston' sign

The suspect in this robbery case was inadvertently captured by one...

A Houston film crew was held up and robbed midday Wednesday while shooting a promotional video in front of a piece of local art meant to tout Houston pride.

Zach Jankovic of the Cut to Create production and three others were in front of David Adickes’ “We Love Houston” installation off I-10 near Heights Blvd. when a suspect walked up to the crew and produced a handgun.

He stole two high-end Canon 5D camera plus a GoPro on tripods from the group and ran along the feeder road to nearby Bass Street.

No one was hurt in the incident and Houston police were soon called and Jankovic and company filed a police report.

Jankovic says that nearby construction workers say the suspect drove off in a late-model maroon Nissan Altima that was parked on the street most of the morning.

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He describes the suspect as a man in his early ‘20s, wearing a red T-shirt and blue jeans.

Jankovic told the Houston Chronicle that the crew was filming a promotional video for an area realty company. The footage they shot earlier Wednesday was thankfully not lost, he says.

One of Jankovic's friends posted his account of the robbery on Houston's ever-vigilant Reddit board in hopes that the hive mind could help solve the crime.

“It’s ironic we were there filming a video about how awesome Houston is when it happened,” Jankovic says.

This incident will likely not end up in the final cut of the realty company's promotional video.

Luckily for Jankovic one of the cameras that the suspect stole, the GoPro, was rolling time-lapse footage when it was taken. The suspect ditched the GoPro but not before a picture of the suspect was captured. That GoPro and the weapon used in the robbery were found at the construction site.

Jankovic says the gun ended up being plastic.

Though his company is insured for incidents like this, Jankovic says they might still be short on equipment for the near future.

On Thursday Jankovic shared a link to a GoFundMe page to help the production crew raise money to replace the $10,000 in gear that was stolen. According to him his insurance company isn't covering some of the more expensive pieces that the suspect made off with.