The assistant director of the film "Rast", Dave Hallas, who in the filming king handed the film actor Alec Baldwin a gun with live bullets, with which Baldwin accidentally shot to death 42-year-old Halina Hutchins, was previously fired from producing another film after being involved in an incident during which a friend was injured. Production from shooting.
This is what CNN reported tonight (Monday through Tuesday).
The CNN report, which relied on information received from the production company that fired the former assistant director, further claimed that Hales served as an assistant director in the film in 2019, while a gun "ejected a bullet" on the set and led to the injury of a sound crew member.
The production company "rocket soul studios" further stated that the injured sound man was treated on the set and was later transferred to the hospital for medical treatment.
Aerial photo of the film set "Rust", in which actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot to death a photographer, Photo: Roberto E. Rosales / Albuquerque Journal
"Hallas was fired from the set immediately after the dummy gun fired," officials at the production company said, adding that "production did not continue filming until Dave left the site."
According to an affidavit released by Santa Fe Police, an assistant director handed Baldwin one of the three pistols used as production accessories in the filming.
The same assistant director also shouted on the set that it was a "cold gun," meaning a weapon that did not include live ammunition.
Later, Baldwin fired a gun and hit Hutchins in the chest at close range and on the shoulder of Sousa, who was standing behind the photographer.
It was further reported that all three guns were prepared for filming on the set by the gun officer, and that the assistant director, like Baldwin, did not know that the gun contained live bullets.