Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun - or anywhere on the movie set. Baldwin, Luke Nikas, said: “This decision distorts Halyna Hutchins’s tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice. In a statement after the announcement that charges were forthcoming, a lawyer for Mr. In a statement of probable cause against the armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, prosecutors faulted her for “not checking the rounds she was loading into the firearms,” for “allowing live rounds on scene” and for “allowing ammunition to not be secured.” They also accused her of failing to stay with the firearm, and said she did not have enough experience or training to be an armorer on a film the size of “Rust”
“This reckless deviation from known standards and practice and protocol directly caused the fatal shooting,” Mr. Baldwin of not receiving sufficient firearms training firearms, of failing to deal with safety complaints on set, of putting his finger on the trigger of a real firearm, and of pointing the weapon at the cinematographer and director. In a statement of probable cause, Robert Shilling, a special investigator for the district attorney’s office, accused Mr. Baldwin pulled the trigger, firing a live round that struck the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. The gun was being used as a prop on the set of “Rust,” which was being filmed near Sante Fe, N.M., in October 2021, when prosecutors say Mr. Baldwin, both a producer and a lead actor in “Rust,” should never have pointed it at anyone. Baldwin, as well as the movie’s armorer, were facing involuntary manslaughter charges for failing to make sure the gun and ammunition were properly checked. The district attorney for Santa Fe County, Mary Carmack-Altwies, said that Mr.
The actor Alec Baldwin has pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter for the shooting on the set of a western that killed the film’s cinematographer and wounded its director, according to court papers filed in New Mexico.
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