One of the two men interviewed by the police in connection with a reported attack on the “Empire” star Jussie Smollett has appeared on the show, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department said late Thursday night.

The two who were questioned are brothers, according to Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman. He added in a brief phone interview that the police had searched their homes on Tuesday. The two are currently not considered suspects, the spokesman said, adding that interviews would continue on Friday. He said he did not know what role the one man played on the Fox show.

Smollett said late last month that he had been assaulted by two men yelling homophobic and racial slurs in downtown Chicago. He told “Good Morning America” in an interview broadcast Thursday morning that he was “pissed off” by the attack and those who doubted his story, which is being investigated as a possible hate crime.

Hours after the segment was broadcast, the Chicago police said they were interrogating two men believed to be the persons of interest seen in surveillance video images released in late January.