Alec Baldwin Fired A Prop Gun On Set That Killed The Cinematographer & Critically Injured Director.

[beenz]

Alec saying he didn't pull the trigger.

I don't understand. is he claiming the gun spontaneously shot itself?

 

[Deltron]

I don't understand. is he claiming the gun spontaneously shot itself?

there were claims that this had happened previously during the shoot...so it is possible

 

[Deltron]

Police release videos in probe of Baldwin film-set shooting

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Law enforcement officials released a trove of video evidence Monday in the ongoing investigation of a fatal October shooting of a cinematographer by actor and producer Alec Baldwin on the set of a Western movie.

Data files released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office include lapel camera recordings taken by a commanding officer as he arrives at a film-set ranch where medics are attending to the wounded, with an evacuation helicopter whirring overhead. A search for the gun leads to the movie production’s armorer, who breaks down in tears.

Other videos show investigators as they debriefing Baldwin within hours of the fatal shooting, talking with him inside a compact office — and rehearsal clips that show Baldwin in costume as he practices a quick-draw maneuver with a gun.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said in a statement that the investigation by his agency remains open and ongoing as it awaits the results of ballistics and forensic analysis from the FBI as well as studies of fingerprint and DNA.

“The sheriff’s office is releasing all files associated with our ongoing investigation,” he said in the statement. Those files also include photos of ammunition from the set and examination reports.

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At a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe on Oct. 21, 2021, Baldwin was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins when it went off, killing Hutchins and wounding the director, Joel Souza. They had been inside a small church during setup for filming a scene.

In a video taken by police later that day, Baldwin makes a few frantic calls as he awaits a meeting with law enforcement officials.

“You have no idea how unbelievable this is and how strange this is,” he says over the phone.

Under questioning by two investigators, Baldwin pieces together what happened as the gun went off, still apparently unaware that Hutchins would die and shocked to learn that he had been holding a gun loaded with live ammunition. Baldwin said the gun should have been empty for a rehearsal with no filming.

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“I take the gun out slowly. I turn, I cock the pistol,” Baldwin says. “Bang, it goes off. She (Hutchins) hits the ground. She goes down. He (Souza) goes down screaming.”

Souza recounted his experience from a hospital emergency room, where he was treated for a bullet wound and questioned by investigators.

Souza described “a very loud bang, and then it felt like someone kicked me in the shoulder.” He knew Hutchins was wounded too and asked if she was OK.

In the Oct. 21 video, Baldwin repeatedly says there were no prior problems of any kind with firearms on the set of “Rust.”

Those statements conflict with more recent findings by state occupational safety regulators, who last week issued the maximum possible fine of nearly $137,000 against the “Rust” film production company.

New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau said Rust Movie Productions must pay $136,793, and distributed a scathing narrative of safety failures in violation of standard industry protocols, including testimony that production managers took limited or no action to address two misfires on set prior to the fatal shooting.

The bureau also documented gun safety complaints from crew members that went unheeded and said weapons specialists were not allowed to make decisions about additional safety training. Rust Movie Productions has indicated it will dispute the findings and sanction.

Baldwin said in a December interview with ABC News that he was on set pointing the gun at Hutchins at her instruction when it went off without his pulling the trigger.

 

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Alec Baldwin hired private investigator after 'Rust' shooting, doesn't think he'll be criminally charged

Alec Baldwin doesn't believe he'll be criminally charged for Halyna Hutchins's death on the set of Rust.

"I hired a private investigator," Baldwin told CNN, later adding that the last 10 months have "taken years off my life."

Baldwin was rehearsing with the gun that killed Halyna on Oct. 21. A FBI forensic report released last week determined the .45 Colt could not have been fired without someone pulling the trigger. It also noted that 150 live rounds of ammunition were found on the set. Baldwin, who was a producer on the Western film, has repeatedly stated he never pulled the trigger. The actor reiterated to CNN that there are two people responsible for Halyna's death: assistant director Dave Halls, who handed him the gun and declared it "cold" meaning it had no live ammo, and Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who served as the armorer and props assistant on the film.

"Why didn't [Gutierrez Reed] check that bullet? Why didn't Halls obey her?" Baldwin asked. "Why did he give me the gun? Why didn't he check? Why did he tell the crew [it was a cold gun]?"



Based on the findings of Baldwin's private investigator, he doesn't believe anyone will be criminally charged. Santa Fe County prosecutors have not indicated which way their investigation is leaning.

"I'm pretty confident neither one of them should ever work in a film set again," Baldwin said. "I sincerely believe ... [investigators are] going to say that this was an accident. It's tragic."

The actor noted that he does not want to "condemn" Gutierrez Reed.

"I mean maybe it's the Catholic in me," Baldwin explained. "I have an impulse to say, I don't want to see anybody suffer. I don't want to sit there and say you know, go get her and condemn her."

Lawyers for Halls and Gutierrez Reed told the outlet Baldwin is trying to shift blame off of himself.

Baldwin went on to reveal that he's lost five jobs in less than a year because of the accident.

"I got fired from another job yesterday," he said. "There I was all set to go to a movie, jump on a plane ... I've been talking with these guys for months and they told me yesterday we don't want to do the film with you because of this."

Many people have weighed in on the tragedy, including former President Donald Trump, who said Baldwin shot the cinematographer on purpose. The 30 Rock alum said he's feared for his safety because of comments like that.

"There is just this torrent of people attacking me who don't know the facts," he stated. Baldwin credits his wife Hilaria, who is pregnant with the couple's seventh child, for being his rock through this all.

"If I didn't have my wife, I don't know where I would be right now," he said. "If I didn't have her, I probably would have quit, retired, gone off, you know sold everything I owned, got a house in the middle of nowhere and just you know find something else to do, sell real estate."

Baldwin noted that he wanted to finish Rust for Halyna's family — "we wanted to put the money in the kid's pocket." Halyna and her husband, Matt Hutchins, shared one young son. They are suing Baldwin and others for wrongful death. The actor doesn't feel he's responsible, though, something Matt previously called "absurd."

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Matt Hutchins is speaking publicly about his wife's tragic death for the first time, saying it's "absurd" Alec Baldwin doesn't feel responsible. Halyna Hutchins was killed on Oct. 21 on the set of Rust when a gun Baldwin was holding discharged. The actor maintained he didn't pull the trigger, telling ABC News in December he felt no guilt for the shooting. Halyna's husband went to rival network NBC to call out Baldwin's interview.
"Someone put a live bullet in the gun who should have known better," Baldwin added. "That was [Gutierrez Reed's] job. Her job was to look at the ammunition and put in the dummy round or the blank round, and there wasn't supposed to be any live rounds on the set.

"There are two people who didn't do what they were supposed to do," he continued. "I'm not sitting there saying I want them to, you know, go to prison, or I want their lives to be hell. I don't want that, but I want everybody to know that those are the two people that are responsible for what happened."

Baldwin reiterated that Halyna's death is "the worst thing of all."

"Somebody died, and it was avoidable. It was so unnecessary," he said. "Every day of my life I think about that."

Baldwin reposted a portion of the CNN interview on social media that explained how the gun went off without pulling the trigger.

"The most important part of this article is this first sentence. No one has ever maintained, on my part, that a cocked gun just went off without pulling a trigger. The gun was never cocked. Never. The hammer was pulled back as far as it could go WITHOUT cocking the gun. When released, it caused the gun to fire," Baldwin wrote. "Not cocked. No trigger pull. Pull back hammer only…and release. Who put the live round in the gun?"

while he does have some what of a point that the armorer did a shyt job and she should have checked too,

Gun safety 101 (which he should know himself) is that he check if the gun is live.

he can't solely rely on the armorer and director...he needs to take accountability

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

while he does have some what of a point that the armorer did a shyt job and she should have checked too,

Gun safety 101 (which he should know himself) is that he check if the gun is live.

he can't solely rely on the armorer and director...he needs to take accountability

Ehhh you’re talking about an actor whose job is mainly just to literally show up on set and perform. Those type of things technically aren’t in their job description. Before you bring up him being a producer, that’s in name only.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Ehhh you’re talking about an actor whose job is mainly just to literally show up on set and perform. Those type of things technically aren’t in their job description. Before you bring up him being a producer, that’s in name only.

Yeah, why should the actor hold any responsibility to triple check?

But Alec was dumb trying to say he didn’t fire the gun when the evidence said he did. Really makes him look bad.

 

[HipHopStan]

He is right. That gun is supposed to go through multiple people before it entered Baldwin's hands and usually for big movies, you'll have someone yell out "COLD GUN!" on the set. I don't know what the procedures are for Direct-to-Redbox/Streaming films, but I don't think Baldwin knows anything about firearms in the slightest. Still, since he's a producer (whether it's I.N.O. or not) he'll probably have to pay up some money. The fact that over a dozen members of the film crew walked off the set earlier in the day before the shooting due to unsafe working conditions is pretty damming too.

 

[Skooby]

He is right. That gun is supposed to go through multiple people before it entered Baldwin's hands and usually for big movies, you'll have someone yell out "COLD GUN!" on the set. I don't know what the procedures are for Direct-to-Redbox/Streaming films, but I don't think Baldwin knows anything about firearms in the slightest. Still, since he's a producer (whether it's I.N.O. or not) he'll probably have to pay up some money. The fact that over a dozen members of the film crew walked off the set earlier in the day before the shooting due to unsafe working conditions is pretty damming too.

What does I.N.O. mean?

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

What does I.N.O. mean?

In name only. In Baldwin’s case, it’s a low budget film so you give a producer credit to help bump up his pay. Just because it lists someone as a producer, doesn’t mean they actually are one for them.

For example, Sylvester Stallone getting one in the new Creed movie eventhough he isn’t involved in any capacity outside of his characters.

 

[HipHopStan]

What does I.N.O. mean?

In Name Only.

 

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‘Rust’ Movie Productions Reaches Settlement With Halyna Hutchins Estate; Filming To Resume In January, Matthew Hutchins To Executive Produce

EXCLUSIVE: (UPDATED with Alec Baldwin statement): Rust Movie Productions LLC and its Rust star and producer Alec Baldwin have reached a settlement with the estate of slain cinematographer Halyna Hu…

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kinda bullshyt...wife in heaven like

 

[jdubnyce]

It was coming

Alec Baldwin and armorer will be charged with involuntary manslaughter after fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of ‘Rust’ | CNN

Baldwin and Gutierrez Reed each face two counts of involuntary manslaughter so that a jury can decide which specific count may be more appropriate, New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said.

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Alec Baldwin, the actor who fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal for the Western movie "Rust" in 2021, will be charged with involuntary manslaughter prosecutors said Thursday.

 

[Lord Beasley]

well dayum

 

[beenz]

It was coming

Alec Baldwin and armorer will be charged with involuntary manslaughter after fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of ‘Rust’ | CNN

Baldwin and Gutierrez Reed each face two counts of involuntary manslaughter so that a jury can decide which specific count may be more appropriate, New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said.

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someone is definitely going to jail over this.

 

[Skooby]

Stupid decision.