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.

 

[X Pac Heat]

Seven kids?!? What is he, a fucking hamster?

No. I honestly don't know anything about baldwin other than the ABC scene and him being part of the FAG.

It was a shitty, off the top of my head joke.

You can't make jokes in these topics, don'tcha know?

 

[DMX DA GOAT]

New info says that Baldwin and the cinematographer got into a shouting match where he threatened that her life in the industry would be over if she didn't shut up about the working conditions.

 

[Al from Dadeville]

It’ll be interesting to see how this union/scab staffing affects the story.

Baldwin hired Owen Hart’s rigging crew to manage the firearms for this film

 

[Tasty Tatty]

I'm blaming the union.

It's unprofessional to walk out of a job, no matter what is the type of job. To me, that's akin to kidnapping, except that the hostage here is the final product.

Not gonna defend Baldwin here, bc he's a piece of shit, but when you're in charge of something that needs to be finished on schedule, you just can't sit and wait, you can't just even negotiate, there is no time.

If you weren't able to negotiate your pay and working conditions before starting the job, that's on you.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

New info says that Baldwin and the cinematographer were having an affair, and she was pregnant with his kid.

 

[Getting tard comed]

I'm blaming the union.

It's unprofessional to walk out of a job, no matter what is the type of job. To me, that's akin to kidnapping, except that the hostage here is the final product.

Not gonna defend Baldwin here, bc he's a piece of shit, but when you're in charge of something that needs to be finished on schedule, you just can't sit and wait, you can't just even negotiate, there is no time.

If you weren't able to negotiate your pay and working conditions before starting the job, that's on you.

We don't know yet that the working conditions they agreed to were the ones they were working under.

 

[repentance]

I'm blaming the union.

It's unprofessional to walk out of a job, no matter what is the type of job. To me, that's akin to kidnapping, except that the hostage here is the final product.

Not gonna defend Baldwin here, bc he's a piece of shit, but when you're in charge of something that needs to be finished on schedule, you just can't sit and wait, you can't just even negotiate, there is no time.

If you weren't able to negotiate your pay and working conditions before starting the job, that's on you.

It was people from the camera crew who walked out, though. Weapon safety isn't one of their roles and their absence shouldn't have any impact on whether firearm handling procedures are properly followed.

 

[Admiral Piett]

I'm blaming the union.

It's unprofessional to walk out of a job, no matter what is the type of job. To me, that's akin to kidnapping, except that the hostage here is the final product.

Not gonna defend Baldwin here, bc he's a piece of shit, but when you're in charge of something that needs to be finished on schedule, you just can't sit and wait, you can't just even negotiate, there is no time.

If you weren't able to negotiate your pay and working conditions before starting the job, that's on you.

No job is worth your life man. If you're at a worksite, and the bosses aren't addressing your concerns about workplace safety, conditions and the like, well then you are well within your right to walk off. Fuck 'em. Especially if you're working construction or other dangerous place. And on a set like Rust, it sounds like it had very lax rules on gun safety.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

her life in the industry would be over if she didn't shut up about the working conditions.

Well, I guess she doesn't have to worry about that anymore.

 

[Neil]

The year is 2030; trump has been a private citizen for 5 years and dead 5 longer, yet still the ghost of his single term haunts vacant heads as a poltergeist; landlord in both life and death.

You're right, Trump does live rent free in his fanboys' heads so hardcore that whenever a tragedy like this happens they immediately jump to thinking "How can I use this to smear a person who disliked Trump while he was in office?"

 

[Super-Chevy454]

New info says that Baldwin and the cinematographer were having an affair, and she was pregnant with his kid.

Could we said the plot thickens?

 

[Erich Honecker]

No job is worth your life man. If you're at a worksite, and the bosses aren't addressing your concerns about workplace safety, conditions and the like, well then you are well within your right to walk off. Fuck 'em. Especially if you're working construction or other dangerous place. And on a set like Rust, it sounds like it had very lax rules on gun safety.

Weren't the union members complaining about "covid safety" as part of their walkout? They may well have just been a bunch of histrionic pussies.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

Could we said the plot thickens?

It was a joke. It's showing that people are just saying rumours in this thread and people blindly believe it. If you're posting new info, post the source.

 

[69ing Ur Mom]

It was people from the camera crew who walked out, though. Weapon safety isn't one of their roles and their absence shouldn't have any impact on whether firearm handling procedures are properly followed.

If you see gun safety procedures not being followed, you GTFO.

 

[Dysnomia]

Irish Catholic

Six of them are with his current wife, Hillary/Hilaria.

The fake Spaniard? Now I remember who she was married to.

 

[SBG]

Saw the text message that's been going around of crew that wanted to leave because of working conditions such as not getting a nicer hotel and better Rona security theater. That feels like the people trying to avoid blame by bringing up anything and everything to blame the people running the production, when there's the question of why live bullets would be on set (or why the prop guns actually fired anything?).

Makes it sound like they were upset about their hotels and tried connecting that to the hot topic of Nu-Flu when making their demands, then when the fuck up happened with the prop gun they don't want to take any blame for their department putting live ammo in a gun and so are saying if they'd been listened to then the death wouldn't have happened.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

The news is now "reporting" that when they said "live round" they actually meant it was a blank shot that had live gunpowder in it and not a actually fully loaded round.

Typical journalslime tactics..click-bait then make a small retraction that hardly anyone see's.

I'm guessing either a fragmented casing or maybe a object in the barrel. No actual bullet was fired despite what all the Twatter morons are saying.

 

[Honk Hill]

 

[Jaded Optimist]

Actual news from TMZ
The gun handed to Alec Baldwin before the fatal shooting on the "Rust" movie set was loaded with a live round ... according to a warrant from the ongoing police investigation.

The warrant says an assistant director handed the gun to Alec and told the actor it was safe to use before the deadly incident ... according to the warrant obtained by the Associated Press.

The warrant says the assistant director didn't know the gun was loaded, but it doesn't mention who actually loaded the gun ... which may become the central issue.
Alec's blood-stained costume from the movie has been taken as evidence, as well as the gun that went off, plus other prop guns and ammo being used on set, according to the warrant.

The warrant says Halyna Hutchins was shot in the chest and Joel Souza was wounded as he was standing behind her.

As we reported ... Alec pulled the trigger on the gun and the accident resulted in the death of 42-year-old cinematographer Hutchins. She was struck and airlifted to a hospital, where she died. Director Souza was also hit, but has reportedly been released from the hospital.

Baldwin says he's cooperating with the investigation and says, "There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours."

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

No job is worth your life man. If you're at a worksite, and the bosses aren't addressing your concerns about workplace safety, conditions and the like, well then you are well within your right to walk off. Fuck 'em. Especially if you're working construction or other dangerous place. And on a set like Rust, it sounds like it had very lax rules on gun safety.

Not if the job IS their life, which seems to be the case with a lot of Hollywood and/or union-types.