Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies will announce Thursday whether to file criminal charges against actor-producer Alec Baldwin for the deadly October 2021 shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie
Rust
.
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Hutchins died shortly after being shot by the actor during a rehearsal at a ranch outside Santa Fe on October 21, 2021. Baldwin, who was executive producing the film as well as acting, was pointing a gun at Hutchins when the gun went off;
The director, Joel Souza, was also injured.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza, who led the investigation, found "some degree of negligence" on the set, but left the decision on possible criminal charges to prosecutors after delivering the results of a year of investigation in October. inquiries.
Baldwin (known for his roles in
30 Rock
and
The Hunt for Red October
and his impersonation of former President Donald Trump on
Saturday Night Live
) initially called the death a "tragic accident."
Subsequently, however, he sued the people involved in handling the pistol, assuring that it was delivered to him loaded without, as he explained, his knowledge.
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In his lawsuit, Baldwin said that while working on camera angles with Hutchins during a scene rehearsal, he pointed the gun in her direction and pulled back and released the hammer on the gun, which fired.
The state Office of the Medical Investigator ruled the shooting an accident after conducting an autopsy and reviewing reports from law enforcement.
State authorities fined the film's producers $137 (the maximum possible) for the security breaches, saying they did not follow standard industry security protocols.
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The gunsmith who oversaw the firearms on set, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, has been the subject of much of the scrutiny in the case, along with an independent ammunition supplier.
An attorney for Gutierrez Reed has said the gunsmith did not put a loaded cartridge in the gun that killed Hutchins, and she believes she was the victim of sabotage.
The authorities found no evidence of this.
Investigators found 500 rounds of ammunition on the set, a mix of blank, test, and what appeared to be real rounds.
Industry experts say that live ammunition should never be on set.
The dead director's family - her widower, Matthew Hutchins, and her son, Andros - sued the producers and reached a settlement that could allow the film to resume with Matthew Hutchins serving as executive producer.
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Hutchins' death has affected negotiations over safety in film crews' union contracts with Hollywood producers and prompted other filmmakers to choose computer-generated gunshot footage over actual weapons with blank ammunition to minimize the risks.
