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‘Disgruntled’ crew member intentionally planted reside spherical in ‘Rust’ gun to ‘sabotage’ Alec Baldwin movie – lawyer
The bullet that killed Halyna Hutchins on the set of Alec Baldwin’s movie ‘Rust’ could have been planted by a revenge-seeking crew member, the lawyer for the movie’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has claimed, deeming it “sabotage.”
“We all know there was a reside spherical in a field of dummy rounds that shouldn’t have been there, not less than one reside spherical,” Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer Jason Bowles recommended on Wednesday on ‘The As we speak Present’.
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“We’re assuming any person put the reside spherical in that field – which, if you concentrate on that, the one that put the reside spherical within the field of dummy rounds needed to have the aim of sabotaging the set,” Bowles continued, arguing “there’s no different motive that you’d do this – that you’d combine that reside spherical in with a dummy spherical.”
Varied types of reside and dummy ammunition have been collected from the ‘Rust’ set-turned-crime-scene after actor-producer Baldwin unintentionally killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins whereas practising drawing his gun. Whereas a number of on-set staffers had cleared the gun as “chilly” earlier than passing it down the chain to Baldwin, not less than one reside spherical was nonetheless within the weapon, and Baldwin not solely shot and killed Hutchins but additionally injured director Joel Souza.
Regardless of Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer’s insistence that she was the sufferer of sabotage on the set of ‘Rust’, the 24-year-old armorer had beforehand come underneath criticism for supposed carelessness with weapons throughout her first stint dealing with weapons for a movie, the yet-to-be-released Nicolas Cage car ‘The Previous Means’. Gutierrez-Reed was described by a co-worker on the set as “a bit careless with the weapons” and reportedly handed a gun she hadn’t checked for security to an 11-year-old actress.
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As for ‘Rust’, her second manufacturing as head armorer, Gutierrez-Reed and her legal professionals have repeatedly insisted they “ha[ve] no concept the place the reside rounds got here from,” however the unfolding investigation has revealed there have been already two “unintentional discharges” of firearms on set earlier than Baldwin’s deadly capturing of Hutchins.
Based on police search warrants, 4 folks dealt with the gun that was used to kill the cinematographer. Other than Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed, they have been assistant director Dave Halls – who has his personal doubtful historical past with prop firearms – and prop grasp Sarah Zachry.
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