Alec Baldwin's 'prop firearm' kills one, injures another

Sheriff's office: Alec Baldwin discharged prop gun that killed crew member, wounded director

Baldwin is one of the film's star actors and producers. He went to the sheriff's office willingly and provided a statement to investigators, sheriff's office spokesman Juan Ríos said.

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Actor Alec Baldwin discharged a "prop firearm" that killed a cinematographer and injured a the director of the movie Rust, being filmed on a set south of Santa Fe, a county sheriff's office spokesman said late Thursday.

Halyna Hutchins, 42 and the director of photography for the movie, died at University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque. The film's director, Joel Souza, was hospitalized in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office spokesman Juan Ríos said.

A source closed to the investigation said Baldwin, 63, was questioned by investigators late Thursday and was seen by a New Mexican reporter and photographer in tears.

Investigators are still trying to determine if the incident was an accident, Ríos said. No charges have been filed, and the investigation remains open, Ríos wrote in a news release.

The prop was fired at Bonanza Creek Ranch, where filming was underway, the sheriff's office said in an early evening news release. Baldwin stars in the production.

Hutchins died from her injuries after she was flown to University of New Mexico Hospital, according to the sheriff's office. Souza was taken to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, where he is receiving emergency care, the sheriff's office said. Attempts to get comment from Baldwin were unsuccessful.

“We received the devastating news this evening, that one of our members, Halyna Hutchins, the Director of Photography on a production called ‘Rust’ in New Mexico died from injuries sustained on the set,” John Lindley, the president of the International Cinematographers Guild Local 600, and Rebecca Rhine, the executive director, said in a statement, as reported by Variety. “The details are unclear at this moment, but we are working to learn more, and we support a full investigation into this tragic event. This is a terrible loss, and we mourn the passing of a member of our Guild’s family.”

Deputies were investigating how the accident occurred and "what type of projectile was discharged," the sheriff's office said in an earlier news release.

Rust Movie Productions did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Filming for Rust was set to continue into early November, according to a news release from the New Mexico Film Office. It's described as the story of a 13-year-old boy left to fend for himself and his younger brother following the death of their parents in 1880s Kansas, with New Mexico doubling for Kansas.

Guns firing blanks have been blamed for deaths in past movie productions. Online Hollywood news site Deadline reported, "Actor Jon-Erik Hexum was killed Oct. 18, 1984, on the set of the TV series Cover Up when he accidentally shot himself in the head with a gun loaded with blanks. And in 1993, Brandon Lee, the son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, died after he was shot in the head by a gun firing blanks on the set of The Crow. Both incidents were determined to have been accidents."

This is a developing story and will be updated.

 

[electrician's apprentice]

FUCKING HELL I THOUGHT HE DID IT AGAIN!
I need to check the date on these threads before I click on them

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

FUCKING HELL I THOUGHT HE DID IT AGAIN!
I need to check the date on these threads before I click on them

Or look at the page count at least.

 

[George Lucas]

The trial of Hanna Gutierrez is live.
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Edit: Day 3, the tech who did forensics on the ammo is testifying.
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I missed the first couple days, but at least this one covering the technical firearm stuff; it'll be fun to see her defense team try to pin it all on Baldwin.

And while she cleaned up better than I thought she would, by losing the dangerhair & piercings; she still kept the danger eyes.

Is she single?

 

[Iron Hamster]

Is she single?

Lesbian lover last I heard

 

[TowinKarz]

Lesbian lover last I heard

Because of course she does, the competency crisis that put her in charge of guns wouldn't be complete without one.

 

[The Dude]

@beautiful person there is nothing wrong with using real firearms for filming movies, so long as the armorer is competent and the cast and crew respect the firearm and handle it safely. Using real firearms with blanks has been standard on movie and TV sets ever since the beginning of Hollywood. There have been a few tragedies doing so, such as this one and the Crow, but the vast majority of the time there are no issues due to a culture of safety and professionalism on set.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I still don't get how the armourer is on trial.

Baldwin fucked around with a pistol, aimed it at someone and his negligence led to her being shot.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

I still don't get how the armourer is on trial.

Baldwin fucked around with a pistol, aimed it at someone and his negligence led to her being shot.

It's her job and legal responsibility for the safe handing and control of all firearms on the set.

She fucked around, Baldwin fucked around and someone died. They both responsible but I'd put more blame on her as it was her job to check the firearm and it's load before it's OK'd for use by the actor.

 

[Snekposter]

She fucked around, Baldwin fucked around and someone died. They both responsible but I'd put more blame on her as it was her job to check the firearm and it's load before it's OK'd for use by the actor.

And yet under New Mexico law the ultimate responsibility for what happens with a firearm lies with the person who was holding it at the time.

@John.Doe has brought it up before. There was a criminal case where some assholes gave a "friend" of theirs a loaded gun, said it was empty, and told him to point it and someone and pull the trigger. The courts found the man who pulled the trigger liable, not them.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

They both responsible but I'd put more blame on her as it was her

Person A "here's a gun rifle"
Person B "Is it loaded?"
Person A "fuck if I know"
Person B "let me just fuck around with Schrodinger's weapon and see what happens, for the lulz"

That's fantasy land.
The reality is:

Person A "Here's a gun/rifle"
Person B "Before I carry out the safety checks, is this weapon loaded?"
Person A "No, it isn't loaded"
Person B "I'll check anyway"

Baldwin was responsible for that weapon the second he touched it. No excuses.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

And yet under New Mexico law the ultimate responsibility for what happens with a firearm lies with the person who was holding it at the time.

@John.Doe has brought it up before. There was a criminal case where some assholes gave a "friend" of theirs a loaded gun, said it was empty, and told him to point it and someone and pull the trigger. The courts found the man who pulled the trigger liable, not them.

It's a tuff one for me.

Yah Baldwin aimed the gun and fired it but he had been told it was good to go. Is it really his fault? At the same time he was being an idiot and mishandling a firearm. Which even if your told is "safe" you should never do.

I blame them both but a bit more for the goth wanna-be chick because it was her job to ensure safety whenever firearms were on the set.

It's not like the Brandon Lee thing here, this was an accident but a preventable one...so I dunno.

 

[marvlouslie]

It's a tuff one for me.

Yah Baldwin aimed the gun and fired it but he had been told it was good to go. Is it really his fault? At the same time he was being an idiot and mishandling a firearm. Which even if your told is "safe" you should never do.

I blame them both but a bit more for the goth wanna-be chick because it was her job to ensure safety whenever firearms were on the set.

It's not like the Brandon Lee thing here, this was an accident but a preventable one...so I dunno.

Yes. It really is his fault. You're supposed to treat every gun like it's loaded. He should've double and triple checked before cocking the hammer back. The responsibility ultimately ends with you. It isn't just the armorer's job. It's everyone's job to make sure bullshit like this doesn't happen. If Alec had properly checked the firearm, the issue could've been resolved, but like every hypocritical Hollywood shitlib, he wants to blame the gun instead of blaming his own dumb ass.

 

[Sexy Peach Emoji]

At the range, everyone is a safety. When dealing with firearms, everyone's safety is everyone's responsibility.

 

[Snekposter]

It's a tuff one for me.

Yah Baldwin aimed the gun and fired it but he had been told it was good to go. Is it really his fault? At the same time he was being an idiot and mishandling a firearm. Which even if your told is "safe" you should never do.

I blame them both but a bit more for the goth wanna-be chick because it was her job to ensure safety whenever firearms were on the set.

It's not like the Brandon Lee thing here, this was an accident but a preventable one...so I dunno.

Have you ever handled guns? You'd know the first and last thing you do with any firearm is check if its loaded or not. Even if you've just emptied the magazine in the firing lane you still pop the mag out and check the chamber just to be sure, even if the action has locked open.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

Have you ever handled guns? You'd know the first and last thing you do with any firearm is check if its loaded or not. Even if you've just emptied the magazine in the firing lane you still pop the mag out and check the chamber just to be sure, even if the action has locked open.

It's a bit troubling to me that at the age of six, I was a safer handler of firearms than every one of the chucklefucks involved in this incident.

 

[George Lucas]

And yet under New Mexico law the ultimate responsibility for what happens with a firearm lies with the person who was holding it at the time.

@John.Doe has brought it up before. There was a criminal case where some assholes gave a "friend" of theirs a loaded gun, said it was empty, and told him to point it and someone and pull the trigger. The courts found the man who pulled the trigger liable, not them.

New Mexico is retarded. They should all be liable.

 

[wholetthegodsout]

Apparently they were just rehearsing the scene and not even filming. This means the armorer not only messed up by allowing a live round on set, and not checking the gun, but also the whole incident could have been avoided completely by simply emptying the gun completely for rehearsal purposes. There was no need for cosmetic dummy rounds to even be loaded at that moment.

 

[W00K #17]

Person A "here's a gun rifle"
Person B "Is it loaded?"
Person A "fuck if I know"
Person B "let me just fuck around with Schrodinger's weapon and see what happens, for the lulz"

That's fantasy land.
The reality is:

Person A "Here's a gun/rifle"
Person B "Before I carry out the safety checks, is this weapon loaded?"
Person A "No, it isn't loaded"
Person B "I'll check anyway"

Baldwin was responsible for that weapon the second he touched it. No excuses.

I could see him trying the "I'm sorry yer honor but I am retarded, I live in California and I don't know shit about guns, in fact I fuckin hate 'em, I don't even know what a gun chamber is, let alone how to check one ya honor" defense.

 

[FatMan]

I could see him trying the "I'm sorry yer honor but I am retarded, I live in California and I don't know shit about guns, in fact I fuckin hate 'em, I don't even know what a gun chamber is, let alone how to check one ya honor" defense.

I agree that would be a good angle for him to play, but he blew that defense out of the water in his initial police interview. Dumbass couldn't stop bragging to the female officers about how experienced he was with guns on set over the years, explaining to them what dummies vs blanks vs live rounds were, etc. Pretty tough for him to put that cat back in the bag and try that now.

Don't talk to the cops folks!

 

[W00K #17]

I agree that would be a good angle for him to play, but he blew that defense out of the water in his initial police interview. Dumbass couldn't stop bragging to the female officers about how experienced he was with guns on set over the years, explaining to them what dummies vs blanks vs live rounds were, etc. Pretty tough for him to put that cat back in the bag and try that now.

Don't talk to the cops folks!

I haven't really followed this story since the first headlines happened.

Did he actually talk to LEOs this candidly? Was he stupid enough to not have a lawyer by his side?

Someone to tell him "sir, don't do that"?

It's mindblowing that a dude with this level of wealth and privilege would be ignorant enough to not stfu and not say a single word that wasn't "lawyer".

I can't imagine this level of ego digging one's own grave..


Then again, LA brain syndrome...