American actor Alec Baldwin, author of a fatal shooting on the set of the film "
Rust
" in 2021, will be charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor announced on Thursday January 19.
The gunwoman in the film, who handled the gun, is facing the same charge, said Santa Fe County District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies.
On October 21, 2021, this filming had turned tragic when Alec Baldwin had activated a weapon supposed to contain only blank bullets, but whose very real projectile had killed the director of photography Halyna Hutchins, 42, and injured the director Joel Souza.
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