bearingarms.com By Tom Knighton
From the moment the news of a shooting on the set of the Alec Baldwin film Rust, we’ve been covering what happened. There’s been a lot of disputes over who is responsible, but much of it boiled down to either or both Alec Baldwin, who was holding the gun when it fired, and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer.
One other party, an assistant director who handed the gun to Baldwin, reached an agreement with prosecutors, leaving those two looking down the barrel of prosecution.
And now, Reed has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
The armorer who loaded the gun that killed a cinematographer on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie “Rust” was convicted Wednesday of involuntary manslaughter.
A jury in New Mexico took just over two hours to find Hannah Gutierrez guilty over the death of Halyna Hutchins in October 2021 during filming of the budget Western.
A 10-day trial heard how Gutierrez had been ultimately responsible for the use of live rounds on set — a red line across the industry.
The court had also heard how she had repeatedly failed to adhere to basic safety rules, leaving guns unattended, and allowing actors — including Baldwin — to wave weapons around.
“This is not a case where Hannah Gutierrez made one mistake and that one mistake was accidentally putting a live round into that gun,” prosecutor Kari Morrissey told the jury in her closing argument Wednesday.
“This case is about constant, never-ending safety failures that resulted in the death of a human being and nearly killed another.”
Hutchins was hit by a live round fired from the Colt .45 that Baldwin was holding for a scene inside a wooden church on the New Mexico set. Director Joel Souza was wounded by the same bullet.
Among the claims heard in cord is that Gutierrez–how Reed is listed in this article–was “haphazard” in her supervision of the 20 or so firearms used in the production, allowing actors to wave them around, and that she failed to inspect rounds to make sure they were, in fact, dummy rounds.
In other words, she screwed the pooch plenty…
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