Rust armorer found guilty over death of Halyna Hutchins who was shot by Alec Baldwin

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has been discovered responsible of involuntary manslaughter after she loaded a gun for actor Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust in 2021 which fired and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. 

The film set weapons handler was discovered not responsible of a second cost, tampering with proof, and now faces as much as three years in jail. 

“This case is about fixed, endless security failures that resulted within the demise of a human being,” prosecutor Kari T Morrissey stated throughout closing arguments on Wednesday. The armorer had allegedly failed to note that stay bullets had been blended in with dummy rounds in a field of ammunition on set, and Ms Morrisey accused her of being “negligent”, “careless” and “inconsiderate”. 

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Prosecutors had additionally claimed that that they had proof that Gutierrez-Reed had introduced a field of stay bullets to the New Mexico movie set from her own residence in California, which unfold by way of the set and into the dummy bins, though Ms Morrissey instructed the jury she didn’t imagine it was intentional and subsequently the demise was tragic negligence. 

Alec has additionally been charged with involuntary manslaughter and his trial is ready to start later in 2024. 

© Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot by Alec Baldwin after he fired a prop gun that had not been correctly checked

Halyna was killed on the set of Rust in October 2021 after Alec fired a prop gun that had not been correctly checked. The incident occurred on set in New Mexico and the movie’s director, Joel Souza, was additionally injured.  

Preliminary fees in opposition to Alec had been dropped in early 2023 however after the gun was despatched for additional testing with two specialists reconstructing the gun – which was damaged throughout FBI testing – they concluded that it may solely have been fired by a pull of the set off. 

“This deadly incident was the consequence of the hammer being manually retracted to its absolutely rearward and cocked place adopted, in some unspecified time in the future, by the pull or rearward melancholy of the set off,” the report concluded. “Though Alec Baldwin repeatedly denies pulling the set off, given the exams, findings and observations reported right here, the set off needed to be pulled or depressed sufficiently to launch the absolutely cocked or retracted hammer of the proof revolver.”