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Alec Baldwin on set, captured by a bodycam: "I'm slowly taking out the gun.
I turn around, cock the pistol«
Photo: Santa Fe County Sheriff / dpa
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, died last October when actor Alec Baldwin's prop gun was shot while filming the western Rust.
The Santa Fe, New Mexico police have now released text, images and video footage that is being used in the investigation.
This includes, but is not limited to, police bodycam footage, crime scene photos and videos, and text messages between film crew members in the days leading up to and following the incident.
A video of Baldwin's interrogation is now public.
Filming took place on a movie ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe in a small church.
The videos show Baldwin, for example, apparently doing target practice with the gun in his costume shortly before the alleged accident.
The recordings of a police officer's bodycam show the scenes immediately after the crime.
Paramedics can also be seen kneeling next to Hutchins who is lying on the ground.
Baldwin explains the course of events of the accident
Another shot shows Baldwin being interrogated by police officers.
He describes the course of events from his point of view.
At the time, Baldwin was unaware that Hutchins was critically injured.
“I slowly take out the gun.
I turn around, cock the gun,” Baldwin says.
“Bang, she's going.
They [Hutchins, d.
Red.] hits the ground.
He goes down screaming.” By “he” Baldwin is referring to director Joel Souza, who appears to have been hit in the shoulder by the same shot.
Souza reports on the accident in another video.
There was “a very loud bang” and “then it felt like someone kicked me in the shoulder.” In the video, Souza asks if Hutchins is okay.
During interrogation, Baldwin said he was shocked that he was holding a gun with live ammunition.
He says the gun shouldn't have been loaded.
In video apparently captured by police later that day, Baldwin makes a few frantic calls while waiting to meet with law enforcement officers.
"You have no idea how unbelievable and strange this is," he says over the phone.
Baldwin denies gun problems
In one of the October 21 videos, Baldwin repeatedly says there were no gun problems on the set of Rust.
These statements are at odds with recent findings by US labor safety agencies, which last week imposed the maximum possible fine of nearly $137,000 on the film production company.
The report published on the subject said that the producers had shown an "apparent indifference to the dangers associated with firearms".
According to the investigative report, the safety rules were "routinely" not observed, for example there should never have been "live ammunition" at the film location or a weapon aimed at a person.
The "tragic incident" could have been avoided.
The production company has announced that it will challenge the findings and sanctions.
Baldwin had said in an interview with ABC News that he pointed the gun at Hutchins on set on her instructions.
The gun went off without him pulling the trigger.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said in a statement his agency's investigation is open and ongoing, awaiting the results of FBI ballistics, forensics, fingerprints and DNA tests.
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