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.

 

[AnnLurker]

Why is hollywood so lazy as to not make safe prop guns? How hard can it be to use pop cap like charges instead and add sound in post? Seems like he just wanted to kill someone to me.

 

[Vince McMahon]

Holy Shit faggot Baldwin knob slobberers really shit up a fun thread

Is everyone who has a different opinion a dick sucker? Because you're treading the same line of thought lefties have with Trump and supporters.
Horseshoe is real and all that.

 

[AnnLurker]

Is everyone who has a different opinion a dick sucker? Because you're treading the same line of thought lefties have with Trump and supporters.
Horseshoe is real and all that.

No, it's not. If someone attacks you and you attack back, it's just stooping to their level at worst. At the end of the day, the noble kiwi will be able to go home and fuck his wife at night content in his moral duty to make fun of retarded things, while Alec Baldwin will always be a drunk, wife beating murderer.

 

[Vince McMahon]

moral duty to make fun of exceptional things

You mean bully dorks and weirdos?

 

[AnnLurker]

You mean bully dorks and weirdos?

I don't see how talking about someone shooting someone else makes me or anyone else here a bully.
I'm not personally saying anything to him, or hurting him or even give a shit. He shot someone, that's stupid, I talk about it.
Next you'll tell me that all those old fail videos or America's Funniest Home videos are also bullying if I talk about them.

 

[DMX DA GOAT]

Is everyone who has a different opinion a dick sucker? Because you're treading the same line of thought lefties have with Trump and supporters.
Horseshoe is real and all that.

Dude get the fucking sand out of your vag and go back to reddit with your gay Hollywood idolization

 

[Super-Chevy454]

There's a good rant about Alec Baldwin with the title who says it all.

No, let's not be kind to Alec

There have been a number of suggestions, from the conservative press as much as elsewhere, that we should go easy on poor Alec Baldwin concerning the terrible

www.americanthinker.com

October 23, 2021

No, let's not be kind to Alec​

By J.R. Dunn

There have been a number of suggestions, from the conservative press as much as elsewhere, that we should go easy on poor Alec Baldwin concerning the terrible “accident” that resulted in a “tragedy” at his New Mexico filming location.
No, we should not. It was not an accident, and it is not a tragedy.
There a four primary rules of firearms handling, codified many years ago by firearms expert Jeff Cooper. Everyone serious about firearms has long ago committed them to memory:

1. Every gun is always loaded.
2. Never put your finger on the trigger until you are about to shoot.
3. Never aim at anything you are not willing to destroy.
4. Be absolutely certain about what is behind your target.

It seems clear that Baldwin ignored every last one of these. He didn’t bother to check his weapon to see if it was loaded. He had his finger on the trigger in an insecure situation. He aimed it at two people. His director Joel Souza was standing behind Halyna Hutchins, who was killed. Souza was evidently hit by the same round.
Baldwin has long been an outspoken advocate of gun control. He has generally presented himself as an expert – he generally presents himself as an expert on everything that has ever happened since humans first appeared on the Serengeti. His remarks concerning firearms have been sarcastic, vindictive, and dismissive of anyone with the temerity to disagree. Second Amendment supporters, on the other hand, have long suspected that his firearms expertise, as is true of most gun control advocates, has been rudimentary at best. And now… whatayya know.
As the narrative evolves, the incident is looking much less like an accident and much more like a crime. The professional Hollywood film crew abandoned the production only hours before the shooting, and were replaced by clueless locals. The crew’s complaints appear to be largely based on safety – there were two other firearms incidents reported the previous week. It appears that no armorer or firearms master was present on scene to oversee use of firearms, as is standard practice in the industry.

 

[Product Placement]

If you want to sperg over Baldwin do it over the fact he was the producer of the movie because if he is guilty of anything it will be in relation to that role not because he has a hate boner for Trump nor because he performed the direction he was given on set.

Found this on 4chan, it's 4chan so could be bullshit, but if true heads need to roll because this is pure retardation

 

[WinchesterWhiskey]

"I was unsafe with a firearm and someone died, how could this happen?"

 

[Stoneheart]

Why do they even bother making westerns in the US? just do it in the balkans, super cheap and they made alot of western movies in the past.

 

[WinchesterWhiskey]

Alec Baldwin moment:

Check out my new camera this isn't a camera

youtu.be

 

[X Pac Heat]

"I was unsafe with a firearm and someone died, how could this happen?"

"It's the gun/everyone elses fault and not mine at all."

 

[LurkTrawl]

If you want to sperg over Baldwin do it over the fact he was the producer of the movie because if he is guilty of anything it will be in relation to that role not because he has a hate boner for Trump nor because he performed the direction he was given on set.

Found this on 4chan, it's 4chan so could be bullshit, but if true heads need to roll because this is pure retardation
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If that shit's true then yeah it's kinda fucking despicable that this was allowed to happen. The only political thing about it is that the motherfucker didn't practice gun safety as an anti-gun guy.

 

[Walrus and Carpenter]

You mean bully dorks and weirdos?

If you don't agree with the core values of this site than you'd probably be happier if you stayed away.

 

[SITHRAK!]

Why is it not standard practice for an actor to confirm a weapon is unloaded when they are told it is cold? I can see maybe if it is hot and has blanks in it. But if it is supposed to have nothing in it, you aren't going to fuck it up by checking.

Because actors are not trained professionals (and neither was the dumb cunt diversity hire ‘lead armorer’ apparently).
You have to remember that the overwhelming majority of actors are liberals who hate (other people having access to) firearms. There has to be someone to minimize risk and keep the insurers happy.

The big question is, how did a twenty-something vagina bearer, whose primary expertise was in makeup, score a job as an armorer when there are literally tens of thousands of veteran ex-military personnel out there used to handling weapons safely?

Go have a look for photos of Hollywood armorers with years of experience and perfect track records. I doubt you’ll see many posing with a pistol, an ammo belt over one shoulder, and cat eye makeup.

 

[X Pac Heat]

You mean bully dorks and weirdos?

If there was ever a post deserving of a "Go back to reddit, faggot." it's this one.

Read the room/site, you fucking mong.

 

[SITHRAK!]

bully dorks

Hooooo boy, you’re really into that whole ironic foreshadowing thing aren’t you, champ.

 

[Getting tard comed]

The big question is, how did a twenty-something vagina bearer, whose primary expertise was in makeup, score a job as an armorer when there are literally tens of thousands of veteran ex-military personnel out there used to handling weapons safely?

We know how. Her dad is a famous guy in that field. In her defense it's possible she wasn't there when this happened. Phone has the script supervisor blaming a guy and she on a podcast knows that the armorer is the only one supposed to be handling the weapons and an AD is the one who gave Alec the gun.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

The only political thing about it is that the motherfucker didn't practice gun safety as an anti-gun guy.

Neither did their diversity scab; she was raised by a gun-guy who knew better, but complacency breeds ______. If it was a personal pistol she had at the range earlier, she failed even more basic safety rules.

 

[SITHRAK!]

We know how. Her dad is a famous guy in that field. In her defense it's possible she wasn't there when this happened. Phone has the script supervisor blaming a guy and she on a podcast knows that the armorer is the only one supposed to be handling the weapons and an AD is the one who gave Alec the gun.

Any decent armorer on a movie that small allows no firearms on set that they haven’t personally checked twice.
And “my Dad is a famous X and he trained me” is a fucking piss-poor excuse. If you’re not a qualified gunsmith, military-trained armorer or qualified firearms/range safety officer, you have no fucking business calling yourself an armorer.