"Mr. Baldwin is the person holding the gun, so if he hadn't fired she wouldn't have died."
For the family of Halyna Hutchins, director of photography who died during the filming of
Rust
, as for their lawyer, there is no other possible truth.
On October 21, Alec Baldwin had in his hands the weapon that fatally hit Halyna Hutchins.
He is therefore the culprit, as they have tried to demonstrate Alec Baldwin's deadly shot: the victim's family presents their version of the drama in a virtual video.
But is it that simple?
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In the columns of
Vanity Fair
, Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies says she was intrigued by a statement from Alec Baldwin, the shooter, who continues to claim his innocence.
"
The trigger wasn't pulled...I didn't pull the trigger
," the actor said in his first formal interview since the fatal crash.
The words, although very surprising at first, could turn out to be true.
During the interview, Alec Baldwin claims that Halyna Hutchins gave him instructions on how to hold his gun during a rehearsal.
“I hold the weapon as she tells me to hold it (...).
I start cocking the hammer.
I'm not going to pull the trigger.
I release the hammer and the shot goes off.
A skeptical time, prosecutor Mary Carmack-Altwies says she took the trail very seriously.
She has now launched her own investigation, although the formal examination of the weapon rests with the FBI.
One of the investigators in my office has a very old revolver of this type, so he brought it at my request so that we could examine it and see if it was possible.
Mary Carmack-Altwies, Santa Fe District Attorney, for Vanity Fair
And Mary Carmack-Altwies did her own reenactment.
She got a weapon of the same model, made sure it was unloaded and, after checking that no one was prowling around her office, she repeated the gestures described by the actor: shoot the dog without engage, release... “
You can fire the hammer without pulling the trigger and without locking it.
You pull it halfway, it doesn't lock.
And if you release it, the striker can hit the primer of the bullet
,” she said.
Mary Carmack-Altwies, who specifies that she does not know "
much about firearms, and certainly not about revolvers of the 1850s
", realizes that her experimentation has no evidentiary value.
The official results of the analysis of the weapon by the FBI are still pending.