Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen Wedding Paparazzi Shooting

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen had their second wedding in Costa Rica, but the joy was sucked out of the event after bodyguards for the couple, "three to four guys," a source said, started shooting at the paparazzi. One of those involved in the confrontation told People magazine afterwards:

"I didn’t see who had the gun. I’ve been shot at before, but only when I was covering the war in Iraq or when I was in Israel. This is ridiculous!"

According to a witness, a bullet tore through the rear window of an SUV and then through the front windshield, barely missing the two fleeing photographers.

Mario Sanchez of the Organismo de Investigaciones Judiciales says that authorities will pursue a case against the security guards if the evidence is solid. He added that Brady and Bündchen will likely not be held responsible for the guards’ actions.

Describing his encounter with a security guard on Saturday, Yuri Cortez, the Central American bureau chief of Agence France Presse, tells PEOPLE, "I was returning from taking some photos of the wedding, and when I got to my car, right in front of the property, there was an American guard and he was trying to detain me. He wanted to take my camera, my [memory] card, for me to show him the photos I had taken. And I told him no."

After that, Cortez said, additional security guards arrived. "And they told me to get out," he said. "I started walking, and the [one of them] grabbed my arm and pulled it behind my back. He grabbed my backpack too. And he told me that I couldn’t leave. I told him if he was the police, he could detain me, but if he wasn’t any type of authority he couldn’t do it."

A lensman friend of Cortez’s, Carlos Aviles, suggested they leave the scene, "but then someone came out who said he was Tom’s best friend" and this fellow was joined by another man. They demanded to see the photos in Cortez’s camera, he said, and "they were really angry."

As Cortez and Aviles started to drive off, "My friend said he heard them say, ’Stop, or I’ll shoot your tires!’ But when I heard the shot, I thought my friend had been shot," said Cortez.

He added: "I heard the impact [on the back windshield], and when I looked into the mirror and saw that the guy had a pistol, I said, ’Watch out, the guy has a gun!’ Then immediately we heard the impact [of the bullet]. We just hit the gas and sped off ducking down as low as we could in our seats."

Bundchen had arranged an exclusive deal with a Brazilian magazine for the wedding pics, and the paparazzi that were shot at were not authorized to take pictures of the wedding, but did so from a distance to keep from getting caught.

Rolando Aviles said he and colleague Yuri Cortez, both veteran photographers hired by the INF photo agency, had permission from Gisele’s neighbor in Santa Teresa to shoot the wedding ceremony from a vista about 300 feet away from the ceremony.

Brady and Gisele were married in Los Angeles County in February, and were renewing their vows on Saturday. Just as the photographers started snapping, the couple’s bodyguards spotted them and chased them, according to Aviles.

The pair ran back to Cortez’s Suzuki SUV, parked about 500 feet away in dense brush.

They split up as they ran away, and by the time Aviles said he reached the SUV, his colleague was already there speaking to a Brady bodyguard.

Aviles quoted the guard as saying, "Tom Brady just wants to talk to you. It’s OK, nothing’s going to happen.

But when the photographers accepted the guard’s invitation back to Gisele’s house, they were swarmed by three members of the wedding party and five hired goons dressed all in black.

The New England Patriot quarterback’s best man berated the photographers and wanted to provoke a brawl, the lensmen said.

"Take a picture of me now, you f- – -er! F- – - you," Brady’s righthand man, whose name was not immediately known, screamed, according to Aviles.

"He was very angry. It looked like he wanted to attack us," Aviles said. The photographers lied their way out of the tight spot — saying they hadn’t taken a single frame.

The QB’s reps said Gisele had an exclusive picture deal with a Brazilian magazine.

As the lensman drove away, Aviles said he spotted one of Brady’s men pull a pistol.

Seconds later, a bullet shattered the back of Cortez’s SUV, struck a front windshield wiper and then bounced back into the cabin, landing in between the terrified shutterbugs.

"I thought this was going to be my last job," Aviles said.

The fotogs said they found a .38-caliber slug in their SUV’s front cabin.

Both cameramen were still in disbelief yesterday that they almost died for snapping wedding photographs.

"I couldn’t believe it when I realized what they had done," Cortez told the photo agency’s Web site, INF Daily.

"I could have lost my life for the sale of some pictures that Gisele didn’t want published. Are they insane?"

The security guards had no right to harass the paparazzi if they took pictures from a neighbor’s house. The security guards need some jail time.