As the saga that began a year ago at the filming of Rust continues, on Friday, celebrity actor Alec Baldwin filed a suit against people who had supplied and loaded the gun he shot during a rehearsal at the New Mexico location of the Western. Baldwin had fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on October 21, 2021 with a gun that was supposed to be a prop gun and injured director Joel Souza, who was discharged weeks later. The antique Colt gun was called “cold” by assistant director Dave Halls and was loaded by armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.
Alec Baldwin, actor as well as executive producer of Western film Rust, has alleged negligence by the following people involved in the film:
Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed
Prop master Sarah Zachry
First assistant director and safety coordinator David Hall
Ammunition supplier Seth Kenney and his company PDQ Arm & Prop.
All of them have denied that they were responsible for the shooting. Alec Baldwin has said that he was told that the gun was safe to use. He also maintained that he didn’t pull the trigger though an FBI forensic report said that the trigger had to be pulled for the gun to have fired.
In his suit, celebrity Alec Baldwin claimed that neither he nor cinematographer Halyna Hutchins knew that there was a live round in the antique gun. It was supposed to be a prop and was also called “cold” meaning that there was no live ammunition in the gun.
The lawsuit stated that the tragedy occurred “on a movie set–not a gun range, not a battlefield, not a location where even a remote possibility should exist that a gun would contain live ammunition.”
Th law suit also that by making cross claims he wanted to ‘clear his name’ as Baldwin believes that he “has been wrongfully viewed as the perpetrator of this tragedy.”
Although the Office of the Medical Investigator in New Mexico has determined that the fatal shooting was an accident, prosecutors have been reviewing it to determine whether they should file criminal charges. Earlier in April, Rust Movie Productions were fined $137,000 by the state’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau. The bureau also said that there were several safety failures. The company is appealing against the fine.
The Rust set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe was shut down after the accident. However, reports say that the shooting of the Western film will continue in January 2023, with Alec Baldwin, at a new location, as the production house had reached a settlement with Matthew, Halyna Hutchins husband. However, the law suits and investigations around the entire incident might continue for several months or years.
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