Hannah Gutierrez-Reed convicted of involuntary murder of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer of the film starring Alec Baldwin. Baldwin, who was holding the gun from which the lethal shot was fired, was also indicted for involuntary manslaughter: the trial against him will begin in July.
The lethal shooting on the set of Rust, a low-cost western produced by Baldwin who was also the protagonist, dates back to October 2021. With Hutchins,. mortally wounded, he had been hit by the bullet fired from the gun that the actor was holding also the director Joel Souza. Gutierrez-reed says she is "sorry" but "has shown no remorse for her specific conduct," said the judge who sent the gunsmith to prison in rejecting the defense's request for parole. "I'm not a monster", sobbing the young woman for whom Rust had been the first job in the trade inherited from her father, a famous Hollywood gunsmith. " I was young and naive, but I always did my best", she added asking to be released to do "whatever you want me to do, classes, community service."