Criminal proceedings against actor Alec Baldwin, who accidentally killed a cinematographer on the set of a western last week, are not ruled out at this point, the prosecutor investigating the incident said on Wednesday. fatal shot.
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"It was he who activated the weapon,"
said Santa Fe prosecutor Mary Carmack-Altwies at a press conference.
“All options are on the table at this stage”
and
“no one is excluded”
regarding possible lawsuits, she said.
Alec Baldwin is the author of a shot that fatally hit a director of photography on the set of the western "Rust" last Thursday.
The actor was practicing drawing his gun and pointing it at the camera when the shot was fired, according to court documents cited by US media on Monday.