Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in early March by a New Mexico court. She loaded the revolver Alec Baldwin was rehearsing in October 2021, when filming turned into a tragedy on a ranch in this region of the southwest of the U.S.
A live bullet killed the director of photography Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza. Alec Baldwin is also charged with manslaughter and faces the same sentence, but is due to be tried separately in July. The actor, who denies having pulled the trigger, “blatantly lied about his behavior” on set, added the prosecution, adding that he did not explicitly claim that the gun went off on its own. The verdict falls this Monday, April 15, and the gunsmith faces up to 18 months in prison.. The prosecution criticized her amateurism and inexperience. “If it does not check the dummy ammunition (...) to ensure that it is indeed blank bullets, (...) it is a game of Russian roulette that is engaged every time that an actor carries a weapon,” criticized prosecutor Kari Morrissey.