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.

 

[East_Clintwood]

Yup, first place I looked. No info about how any of those guns worked.

Usually that means they're just normal guns. You could always ask on the talk page for the show and see if anyone else knows anything.

 

[Art Kassul]

First off, this site is anti-bullying.

Third, go back to Reddit, faggot.

Oh she had that giga cuck progressive dad hyphenated name. Fucking lawl

She claims she chose to go by her mother's name alone, Gutierrez, and she seems to have done so. Probably for the cachet of having a non-white name. That's going to be a bonus in most professional fields nowadays. That didn't stop her from dropping her father's name all the time though.

There is already a Hannah Reed working as a makeup artist in hollywood, and maybe she couldn't or didn't want to use that name because of that? You'd think using the name of her famous father would be a better career choice if choosing to be an armorer.

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Why did she do it, bros?

She sure got doughy real fast. No wonder she quit being a prostitute and had her daddy get a her real job.

 

[Smug Cat]

It appears as though he was also providing significant funding from his own pockets, in which case his Producer status has major teeth to it.

As I said literally one reply up in the chain:

It's not entirely uncommon for a famous actor or a moneyman to be thrown a producer credit without actually being responsible for any production tasks.

 

[Getting tard comed]

She claims she chose to go by her mother's name alone, Gutierrez, and she seems to have done so. Probably for the cachet of having a non-white name. That's going to be a bonus in most professional fields nowadays. That didn't stop her from dropping her father's name all the time though.

There is already a Hannah Reed working as a makeup artist in hollywood, and maybe she couldn't or didn't want to use that name because of that? You'd think using the name of her famous father would be a better career choice if choosing to be an armorer.

Those unions are like Highlander. There can only be one(person with a specific name)

 

[Iron Jaguar]

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

The gun nerd in me always wondered exactly what was going on with the guns in Danger 5 - see 22:12 if the link doesn't work correctly, go to 23:15 for more:

The bolts reciprocate and they seem to expel spent cartridges but no gas or flash is emitted from the end of the barrel, only from the ejection port. It never occurred to me that it could be a system like you described, but it's still hard to say precisely how those guns work.

Evidently this show utilizes stock footage, with the actors' faces swapped in on some. The gunfight scenes are rapidly cut from a lot of different movies/shows.

Most appear to be blank-firing; some of them on periphery of shots are rubber-guns with no added CGI, and one or two of the SMGs might be compressed air w/ ejecting shells (think paintball simunitions, sans paintballs) in lieu of blanks.... but I doubt it. For the most part it's standard issue low-budget.

do you go to a gun range or empty field and test it. with the safety on and off.
seems like the best way to test it. make sure it functions the way its supposed to.

Which this particular revolver failed to do, several times previous; but instead of just swapping it for a functional piece, they kept fucking with a malfunctioning gun.

People think revolvers are more simple in design than semiautos; but the reverse is often true, especially in the trigger group & cylinder/hammer assemblies of older examples.

 

[Travoltron]

She claims she chose to go by her mother's name alone, Gutierrez, and she seems to have done so. Probably for the cachet of having a non-white name. That's going to be a bonus in most professional fields nowadays. That didn't stop her from dropping her father's name all the time though.

There is already a Hannah Reed working as a makeup artist in hollywood,

Is she a fake Hispanic like Hilaria Baldwin?
Some people are saying she is the same person as the makeup artist (that only has one credit, on some cheap schlock.) Dunno if that's true.

It's obvious she was hired due to her daddy and to fill a couple diversity quotas. I knew this when all I had was her name. But after seeing the shit she put out on social media, I'm shocked that she's even worse than I could have imagined.

And to be honest, the lady DP was probably a diversity hire too. I have nothing against her, it's just kind of ironic that Alec virtue signals by hiring a bunch of women and then one gets the other killed. The fat fuck probably thought this movie was going to get him an Oscar so he complied with the Acadamy's insane new equity requirements.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Is she a fake Hispanic like Hilaria Baldwin?

Yes.

And she will be the same one who is a "makeup artist" and "international model".

 

[The-Patriarchy]

The real question to answer is, why was Baldwin aiming this gun at his cinematographer and director? I can’t imagine a scenario in which two behind-the-camera people get hit when the blanks should be aimed at targets in front of the camera.

They were playing a round of Squid Game.

(photo of Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust added for attention)

 

[Least Concern]

Bullshit. Someone hands you a firearm, you’re now responsible for it. If I hand you a pistol, are you just going to take my word for it that it’s unloaded? I know if those roles were reversed, I’d check.

Cassandra Damper was sentenced to 10 years in prison for accidentally shooting someone because she was handling a gun she’d been told was unloaded. Rules for thee? Will Baldwin escape prosecution due to his “White Privelege”?

Woman sentenced to prison after Facebook Live stream shooting

During sentencing, Cassandra Damper tearfully admitted to her role in the shooting of Devyn Holmes.

abc13.com

The situations are not similar. Baldwin was an actor on a set and had been handed a gun by someone (or which had been prepared by someone) who ostensibly makes a living by preparing guns to be used as harmless movie props. Of course if I'm in real life and some normie idiot hands me a gun I'm going to be suspicious of it. And again, if this happened during a scene where he needed to fire a gun into the camera, then it would have been perfectly normal for him to have seen chambered rounds even if he did check.

Look, I think Baldwin is a pinhead too, but I really don't get the effort people are putting into the job of making him out to be a cold-blooded murderer.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

 

[Red Hood]

There's already a long established SOP for handing anyone any revolver; that is cylinder swung open w/ two fingers through the frame, barrel down, grip presented to the shooter. The shooter can then grasp the gun as normal, visually inspect & confirm the revolver is loaded/unloaded; all they need to do is close the thing & proceed as intended.

It's not something complex or difficult to learn, even for actors.

I mean if it's a western it may not be a swing out cylinder revolver. Still easy enough to safely handle a loading gate or break action revolver though.

 

[Untrue and Dishonest]

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

To be honest, the lady DP was probably a diversity hire too. I have nothing against her, it's just kind of ironic that Alec virtue signals by hiring a bunch of women and then one gets the other killed.

To be fair, cameragirl seemed to actually have talent & technical skill with a lens. Unlike scabgirl, who couldn't manage anything more than point & shoot, and a lot of people had to do that for her too.

The fat fuck probably thought this movie was going to get him an Oscar so he complied with the Acadamy's insane new equity requirements.

Nah, it's all about the money; along with some union-busting & the time-honored practice of working women in sweatshop conditions, while jewing them of their pay.

The layers of delicious irony never cease with this guy, like a tiramisu; he's literally become the irl caricature of everything the left hates, instead of Trump.

 

[X Prime]

I know where I am. It's just kinda funny to see people, who congregate with an explicit purpose of bullying mental deficients/retards talk of "moral duty".

Or does this touch a nerve when someone points out an obvious fact about this website?

I finally glanced at this madness.

Good sir, what is this nonsense? Has the miasma of the UK finally seeped into and rotted your brain?

It's just silly. You are on Kiwi Farms. Mocking people for anything possible is a matter of course. The post you cited was very clearly sarcastic, given that it mentioned farmers having a wife to sleep with which is just outlandish.

 

[Leslie Nielsen]

Get off your fucking couch and spend some time in the real world. It might teach you to extend some compassion to your fellow human beings.

I'm genuinely not trying to start shit, but you say this when you had a meltdown after the hulkster and his buddies posted a dumb meme on your profile page.

 

[Particle Bored]

Which this particular revolver failed to do, several times previous; but instead of just swapping it for a functional piece, they kept fucking with a malfunctioning gun.

Did it? Did they say it was malfunctioning? They said there were three other unintentional discharges, but was that just Baldwin or someone else fucking around handling it irresponsibly?

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

Did it? Did they say it was malfunctioning? They said there were three other unintentional discharges, but was that just Baldwin or someone else fucking around handling it irresponsibly?

The only official statements I've seen (so far) all state "misfire"; which could mean any number of things to a journo, versus what a "misfire" actually is. Hell, many "people of the gun" probably don't.

But my first guess when I heard the term used, was that it literally didn't fire when the trigger was pulled three separate times; a guess further supported by the news that it had been fucked with & tested at the range previously.

I was reminded of an old rimfire conversion revolver (from percussion black powder) that I used to own, which contained all manner of complicated springs & detents in the cylinder, crane, and frame itself that if it wasn't reassembled correctly, would fuck up the timing & the hammer would miss; sometimes locking the thing up, other times actually firing. And it was easy to fuck up, because the springs & detents loved to drop out whenever the cylinder was removed for cleaning.

 

[SITHRAK!]

More hilarity in the world of highly-qualified and competent female armorers, courtesy of the NY Post:

The “inexperienced” armorer in charge of weapons on set of Alec Baldwin’s movie “Rust” had given a gun to an 11-year-old actress without checking properly for safety, a report said.

Hannah Gutierrez Reed, 24, daughter of prominent Hollywood armorer Thell Reed, was head armorer on set in Santa Fe where Baldwin fired a prop gun loaded with a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.

Gutierrez-Reed’s alleged misstep happened on the set of the upcoming Nicholas Cage film, “The Old Way” and temporarily halted filming, sources told The Daily Beast.

“She was reloading the gun on the ground, where there were pebbles and stuff,” one source told the outlet. “We didn’t see her check it, we didn’t know if something got in the barrel or not.”

Gutierrez-Reed reportedly handed the gun to child actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong, forcing concerned crew members to intervene, the report said. The gun was then checked for barrel obstruction, according to the sources.

“She was a bit careless with the guns, waving it around every now and again,” a source said.


Head armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed reportedly gave a non-inspected gun to an 11-year-old actress on the set of the Nicholas Cage film, “The Old Way”.
Voices of the West/Facebook.

“There were a couple times she was loading the blanks and doing it in a fashion that we thought was unsafe.”

A “Rust” production source described Reed as “inexperienced and green,” to the outlet, adding that there had been two other incidents of accidental discharges by crew members.

Two other “Rust” production sources questioned if Assistant Director Dave Halls followed proper procedure before the tragic incident.

“He’s supposed to be our last line of defense and he failed us,” one source told The Daily Beast. “He’s the last person that’s supposed to look at that firearm.”

Halls was named in the affidavit calling out “cold gun,” indicating its safety before giving the weapon to Baldwin.

Another source confirmed that it should be the assistant director’s job to test each gun for being “hot” — loaded with live rounds, or “cold” — loaded with blank rounds.

“This check alone should’ve prevented this incident,” the person told The Daily Beast.

Last month, Guitierrez- Reed said on a podcast that she was “nervous” about her abilities as an armorer while she was working on “The Old Way” — her first experience as head armorer.

“You know, I was really nervous about it at first, and I almost didn’t take the job because I wasn’t sure if I was ready … but, doing it, like, it went really smoothly,” she said last month on the Voices of the West podcast.


Head armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 24, was criticized for being “inexperienced and green.”

It's a sobering thought that if this worthless Instagram whore was as good at weapon safety as she is taking endless selfies, another woman would still be alive.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]