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Alec Baldwin (2019): »Someone put a live bullet in the gun who should have known better«
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Actor Alec Baldwin's prop gun shot killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a film shoot.
About ten months later, no one has been charged.
Baldwin himself does not believe that there will be charges - and denies responsibility.
"Someone put a live cartridge in the gun who should have known better," Baldwin told CNN.
That was the responsibility of Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.
Baldwin also blamed assistant director Dave Halls, who had given him the gun.
"There are two people who didn't do what they were supposed to do," Baldwin said.
Baldwin went on to say that he was not asking "that they go to jail or that their lives become hell.
I don't want that, but I want everyone to know that these two people are responsible for what happened.” The actor always said he didn't pull the trigger.
He just pulled the cock back a bit and let go again.
The gun then went off.
Bodycam footage from the set accident with Alec Baldwin: "I was the one who held the gun, yes"
Gunsmith Gutierrez-Reed, accused by Baldwin, raises allegations against investigators.
As "Variety" and CNN report, a lawyer for the woman criticized that no DNA test was carried out on the cartridges that were discovered on the set.
The armorer's attorney is urging investigators to reconsider.
Dave Hall's lawyer, meanwhile, accuses Baldwin of not taking responsibility himself.
"Balwin points fingers because the evidence points to him," Lisa Torraco said.
Halls is just a scapegoat.
Baldwin held gun in hand
The fatal shot occurred in October 2021 while filming the low-budget western »Rust« at a film ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Camerawoman Halyna Hutchins was killed in the process.
Director Joel Souza was hit in the shoulder.
Baldwin, who served as lead actor and producer on the film, had held the gun in rehearsal for one scene.
Investigations revealed that the Colt contained live ammunition.
Young gunsmith Gutierrez-Reed has sued a man who supplied props, including ammunition, for the shoot.
In November, the armorer's lawyers brought up suspicions of sabotage: someone could have put live ammunition in a box of harmless dummy cartridges to sabotage the shoot.
Prosecutor Mary Carmack-Altwies then said there was no evidence.
Actor Baldwin doesn't think Halls or Gutierrez-Reed will be charged.
"I'm pretty sure none of them should ever work on a movie set again," he told CNN.
However, he believes that the investigators would ultimately consider the death of camerawoman Hutchins to be an accident: "It's tragic." He thinks about the fatal shot every day.
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