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.

 

[byuu]

In your dumb gasoline example the only one in danger is a trained stuntman.

Yes, someone running around while on fire couldn't possible be a danger to someone else.

 

[Starscreams Cape]

Yes, someone running around while on fire couldn't possible be a danger to someone else.

Man you are proving yourself incredibly exceptional.

 

[Smug Cat]

One poster did it, and you say everyone on the other side from you all are doing it. Because you demand intellectual honesty. Riiiggghhhhtttt. Insert "why can't i hold all these intellectual honesties?"meme here.

You were clearly not bullied enough as a child. That is all.

The left would rather their movies not be hindered over saving lives. Sad!

I mean unironically, yeah. The movie industry is a complete shitshow for this kind of thing. But whether the standards for prop firearm handling in the movie industry are good or not is a completely separate issue to whether Baldwin's actual handling of the prop firearm was in line with those standards. He's not going to be considered negligent unless his handling of the firearm was drastically outside of industry standards. I'd say the best case for him to be at fault (since you guys are clearly really emotionally invested in that idea) would be if his role as producer meant he was responsible for hiring idiot non-union prop guys who were handing actors hot guns. But producer credits are really nebulous and often determined by contract so it can be hard to tell what someone with a "producer" credit is actually responsible for on set. I'm sure it'll be investigated so time will tell.

 

[X Pac Heat]

(since you guys are clearly really emotionally invested in that idea)

Once again, we're having a laugh at the anti-gun sperg. The only people emotionally invested in this shit are the moralfags and Baldwin dick riders.

 

[kobebyarlant]

lmao homie you straight posted a completely fake thing and then argued it wasn't actually fake because you feel like it should be real. You might as well be talking about your gender feels. I'm a little bit amazed you guys have managed to rise to the level of the shittiest leftoids in pseudointellectual making-shit-up-ism.

Also you have less than no idea how movie production works and it shows.

And you have no idea how firearm safety works and it shows. Go back to Reddit faggot.

 

[Smug Cat]

And you have no idea how firearm safety works and it shows. Go back to Reddit faggot.

Stop acting like a redditor and maybe I won't have trouble confusing the two lmfao

 

[byuu]

Man you are proving yourself incredibly exceptional.

I'm not the one sperging about the children's ABC of firearm safety as if it's relevant or insightful.

 

[Shiversblood]

This story is not adding up. Arrest his ass for 2nd degree murder.

 

[SilenceIsViolence]

This thread got so gay so quick, was this thread linked on Reddit or something? Prop guns can absolutely kill people if misused. Baldwin is a longtime cow of shit takes and opinions and, while I don't think anyone deserves the slaughtering of innocents on their conscious, I'm not losing sleep over how he is taking this. If anything, he'll turn this into a further driving point on why gun control is so needed: "look at the harm a PROP gun did! This is why real guns need to be banned!". I expect this within the week, if not within the day. As far as punishment, keep dreaming. He's Hollywood rich with connections, he'll resume shooting (lol) ASAP.

I feel terribly for the family of the deceased and injured, to have your life ended like that out of nowhere without reason is about as tragic as it gets. Now let's get back to business.

 

[Starscreams Cape]

I'm not the one sperging about the children's ABC of firearm safety as if it's relevant or insightful.

Instead you're simping for one of biggest Hollywood faggots who could have avoided all this with simple common sense.

 

[TowinKarz]

Yes, someone running around while on fire couldn't possible be a danger to someone else.

Considering when they do man-on-fire style stunts, everything is coreograhped ahead of time, exactly where the stuntman will walk, what they'll touch and where they'll fall, and an extinguisher is always just off-shot and will go off at the exact moment they hit the ground, or at "X" seconds into the burn regardless of positioning.

To think the way it's done is just put a guy in nomex and light him up, wither he may wander....... or to insinuate the average person thinks this is how it's done.... speaks more about you than the ones you bad talk.

 

[Product Placement]

This thread is retarded. No one is simping for him or any actor here, just some tards are so blinded by their hatred of anything or anyone that doesn't share the same politics as them and don't like to be called out on it. I saw the same shit when the left lost it over Chris Pratt going to church for no reason or at anyone that has ever shared a meal with Trump.

Not saying don't make jokes about Bladwin or anything like that. As others have said he has a rep for being a huge cunt and this doesn't change that but don't act like a screaming political tard who doesn't care about facts.

With the info we have now Alec Baldwins didn't do anything wrong in the act of shooting the gun, it seems to be the prop master's fault, however, he is also the producer so he could have some fault within that area of his role. An investigation needs to happen clearly.

 

[X Pac Heat]

This thread got so gay so quick, was this thread linked on Reddit or something?

Considering product placements actions in here, I'm guessing it's just the usual faggots getting upset

 

[byuu]

Instead you're simping for one of biggest Hollywood faggots who could have avoided all this with simple common sense.

Is that the new definition of "simping" : not immediately accusing someone of manslaughter?
I can't keep up with you niggers and your urban vernacular.

To think they way it's done is just put a guy in nomex and light him up, wither he may wander....... or to insinuate the average person thinks this is how it's done.... speaks more about you than the ones you bad talk.

Jesus Christ, you retard. Go back further in the thread and you can see that I'm saying the exact opposite.
Both kind of stunts happen under controlled conditions, both can go horribly wrong when that isn't done correctly.
Do you think they just hand an actor some random gun and let him wildly shoot it everywhere?

 

[Starscreams Cape]

This thread is exceptional. No one is simping for him or any actor here, just some tards are so blinded by their hatred of anything or anyone that doesn't share the same politics as them and don't like to be called out on it. I saw the same shit when the left lost it over Chris Pratt going to church for no reason or at anyone that has ever shared a meal with Trump.

Not saying don't make jokes about Bladwin or anything like that. As others have said he has a rep for being a huge cunt and this doesn't change that but don't act like a screaming political tard who doesn't care about facts.

With the info we have now Alec Baldwins didn't do anything wrong in the act of shooting the gun, it seems to be the prop master's fault, however, he is also the producer so he could have some fault within that area of his role. An investigation needs to happen clearly.

LOL "Nobody is simping for him"...as you dutifully go around and down vote every single comment even mildly critical of him.

Exceptional indeed.

 

[DMX DA GOAT]

I agree with the redditors. Accidents happen. So we should lock his ass up like Chauvin.

 

[kcbbq]

With the info we have now Alec Baldwins didn't do anything wrong in the act of shooting the gun, it seems to be the prop master's fault, however, he is also the producer so he could have some fault within that area of his role. An investigation needs to happen clearly.

Which has been said, repeatedly, at least once per page. Pretty much by everyone in the thread.

 

[Product Placement]

LOL "Nobody is simping for him"...as you dutifully go around and down vote every single comment even mildly critical of him.

Exceptional indeed.

Wait you are upset over me downvoting you, why did you just admit that?

 

[X Pac Heat]

Do you think they just hand an actor some random gun and let him wildly shoot it everywhere?

They might have in this instance, since Baldwin apparently was more worried about his liquor money than hiring professionals.

 

[byuu]

They might have in this instance, since Baldwin apparently was more worried about his liquor money than hiring professionals.

And if you were to read what I actually wrote you'd see that I'm not ruling out that Baldwin himself fucked up somewhere.
Just that simply aiming his prop in the direction of another person doesn't make him automatically responsible.