

The attorneys for the Hutchins family sued armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who they said was responsible for maintaining the weapons on set and did not verify that the revolver or ammunition were safe before first assistant director Dave Halls handed the gun to Baldwin. The Emmy-award winning actor was charged with two counts of.

“The FBI was unable to fire the gun in any prior test, even when pulling the trigger, because it was in such poor condition.”Įarlier this year Hutchins’ family filed a wrongful death suit against Baldwin, producers and members of the “Rust” production who they alleged breached “the most basic rules of firearm use on a film production.” By Max Matza BBC News Criminal charges have been dropped against Alec Baldwin over a fatal on-set shooting in October 2021. “The gun fired in testing only one time - without having to pull the trigger - when the hammer was pulled back and the gun broke in two different places,” Nikas said. However, Nikas, who was also a producer on the movie, said that the report’s conclusions had been “misconstrued.” The actor Alec Baldwin said in an upcoming television interview that he did not pull the trigger of the gun he was practicing with on the set of the film Rust, which fired a. Those results appeared to cast doubt on Baldwin’s statements late last year to ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that he did not pull the trigger. 45 to fire, the trigger needed to be pulled. The report noted that in order for the replica Pietta Colt. A long-awaited FBI report, including an analysis of the weapon that Baldwin fired, concluded that the pistol “functioned normally when tested in the laboratory.” Last month, another piece of key evidence was delivered to police. Next month will mark a year since the accident on the set of the low-budget western as questions remain about how a live round ended up on the production, in violation of safety practices. Interviews with multiple members of the “Rust” crew paint an hour- by-hour picture of a cascade of bad decisions that created a chaotic set on which a lead bullet was put into a prop gun.īaldwin has repeatedly denied culpability in the shooting. The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office is approaching the four-month mark of its investigation into the circumstances of 'Rust' cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ death on Oct. The document also alleges Gutierrez-Reed left the Rust set against protocol.For Subscribers The day Alec Baldwin shot Halyna Hutchins and Joel Souza This included foregoing the use of a prop gun during unscheduled rehearsals, willful ignorance toward on-set safety complaints and a lack of armourer-performed safety checks.

The prosecutor’s statement described several “acts or omissions of recklessness” on the set of Rust. Lawyers for Gutierrez-Reed have also vowed to fight the charges, blaming Halls for not allowing her to use a plastic gun during the fatal rehearsal scene. Gutierrez-Reed has argued that she verified the gun fired by Baldwin was loaded with dummy rounds before she passed it off to Rust’s assistant director, Dave Halls, who then handed it to Baldwin.
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“We will fight these charges, and we will win.” Actor Alec Baldwin may face charges again in the Rust movie set shooting after a second analysis of the gun involved alleges he pulled the trigger. Rust: Alec Baldwin rejects allegations of non-compliance with shooting probe - BBC News. “He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds,” said Baldwin’s lawyer.

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