
Baldwin’s responseĪfter staying quiet for much of the first week after the shooting, Baldwin recently posted several screenshots on Instagram defending the integrity of the production, and before that spoke with a camera crew that was following him in Vermont.Ĭould Alec Baldwin be charged as a producer on fatal film? “The negligence from the person who was supposed to check the weapon on the site did not do this the person who had to announce that the loaded gun was on the site did not do this the person who should have checked this weapon before bringing it to the set did not do it.” “It’s the fault of negligence and unprofessionalism,” Svetnoy said. Investigators found 500 rounds of ammunition - a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and what appeared to be live rounds, even though the set’s firearms specialist, armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, said there should never have been real ammo present. 27 news conference, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said there was “some complacency” in how weapons were handled on the set. (Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican) Less than one week laterĭuring an Oct.
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20, 2021 about a shooting when a prop gun misfired earlier in the day on a local movie set. A distraught Alec Baldwin lingers in the parking lot outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s offices on Camino Justicia after being questioned on Oct. The next day he expressed “shock and sadness” in a statement via Twitter. Hours after the shootingĪn emotionally distraught Baldwin is seen crying, with his hands on his knees, outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. Responders flew Hutchins in a helicopter to a hospital, to no avail. “I was holding her in my arms while she was dying,” Svetnoy wrote. The production, now behind schedule, rushed along.

A new crew was hired that morning, but filming was slow because they were down to one camera, Souza told detectives.

In the hours before the shooting, several camera crew members walked off the set amid discord over working conditions, including safety procedures and a long commute back to their hotels. You know, like, is it going to explode in his hand and lose his fingers?” “The gun just went off in his hand right in front of me and my co-worker,” the crewmember told “People.” “And then everybody in the crowd was, like, ‘Oooh.’ I mean, and I’m, like, is that real, you know, did that happen? It’s scary. Production startsĭisputes in the production of the Western film began almost from the start in early October.Īn anonymous staffer said a gun, in the hands of a stuntman, misfired on set. ( NewsNation Now) - Since the fatal shooting involving Alec Baldwin on the “Rust” movie set, crew members have come forward pinpointing underlying issues that may have led to the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Oct.
