![]() ![]() Referring to Gutierrez-Reed, he said, "There is no way a 24-year-old woman can be a professional with armory. Rust gaffer Serge Svetnoy, who was next to Hutchins when she was shot, called out producers for trying to "save a dime" by hiring "people who are not fully qualified for the complicated and dangerous job" of a set armorer. ![]() There has been a lot of finger-pointing as this has played out. The guns as well as the fatal projectile and other ammunition are being sent to the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Va., for analysis, according to the sheriff. There were some 500 rounds of ammunition - a mix of live, dummy rounds and blanks - found on the set, said the sheriff. However, he said that more questions have risen, so they are hoping for further interviews. The affidavit also noted that " advised the incident was not a deliberate act."Īt Wednesday's joint press conference with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office and the district attorney, Sheriff Adan Mendoza said that Baldwin, Gutierrez-Reed and Halls are all cooperating with authorities. He advised this round did not have the cap on it and was just the casing." (Dummy rounds are sometimes identified by a pierced hole on the side.) She was told to open the gun so he could see what was inside, and the affidavit noted he saw "at least four 'dummy' casings with the hole on the side, and one without the hole. He admitted he should have checked all of them, but didn't and couldn't recall if she spun the drum, according to the new affidavit.Īfter the gun was fired - and Hutchins was hit followed by Souza - Halls picked up the firearm from a pew inside the church set and took it to Gutierrez-Reed. Halls said Gutierrez-Reed showed him the firearm after lunch before they continued rehearsing and he remembers seeing only three rounds. 45 caliber revolver and a plastic nonfunctioning prop gun) were "secured inside a safe on a 'prop truck.'" It was noted that only a few people had access to the safe's combination. ![]() When the cast and crew broke for lunch, which was off-site, the firearms (three total: the one that shot Hutchins, a nonfunctioning. The document obtained by Yahoo Entertainment states that Gutierrez-Reed "advised on the day of the incident, she checked the 'dummies,'" referring to dummy rounds, which contain no gunpowder or primer cap and are used as stand-ins for real bullets in movies, "and ensured they were not 'hot' rounds." It also includes statements from Halls about how the tragic event played out at Bonanza Creek Ranch. The affidavit reveals what Gutierrez-Reed told detectives about the gun, a Long Colt. Those were just two new tidbits in the latest search warrant in the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office's investigation into last Thursday's fatal shooting of the indie film's director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, a shooting that also injured the director, Joel Souza. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer for the film Rust, says she checked the ammunition prior to Alec Baldwin being given the gun and "ensured they were not 'hot' rounds." But assistant director David Halls, who was supposed to check her work, admitted that he didn't check all her work. ![]()
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