Alec Baldwin and prop armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed will both be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The investigation took a year.
Halyna Hutchins, 42, died in October 2021 after Alec Baldwin accidentally fired a prop gun loaded with live ammunition on the Western drama set. Rust. The bullet went through Hutchins’s chest and hit writer/director Joel Souza in the shoulder as it came out.
Hannah GOn, who makes props, and Alec Baldwin On January 19, 2022, Mary Carmack-Altwies, the district attorney for Santa Fe County, said that Baldwin would be charged with two counts of unintentional manslaughter. This will be done after investigators decide that the actor killed the cinematographer accidentally but in the wrong way. Baldwin may not have known at the time that the gun was loaded with a live round. utierrez Reed will both be charged with unintentional manslaughter for the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, a cinematographer. It took a year to look into the case.
Halyna Hutchins, age 42, died on the Western drama set in October 2021 when Alec Baldwin accidentally fired a prop gun with real bullets.
Rust. The bullet hit writer and director Joel Souza in the shoulder as it came out of Hutchins’s chest.
Involuntary manslaughter is when someone accidentally kills someone else because of carelessness or negligence. Federal rules say the charges carry a sentence of 10 to 18 months.
A jury will try the two people, and if they are found guilty, they could spend up to 18 months in jail and pay a $5,000 fine.
By The End Of The Month, Alec Baldwin Will Be Charged With Manslaughter That Was Not His Fault
Santa Fe’s District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said in a statement on Thursday that Alec Baldwin and prop armorer Hannah Gutierrez will be charged with involuntary manslaughter by the end of the month for the death of cinematographer Hayla Hutchins. Hutchins died because Baldwin and Gutierrez were careless.
Baldwin was practising a scene on the set of Rust when he accidentally killed the cinematographer by firing a prop gun with real bullets. But the actor didn’t know that the gun was loaded with a live round because the movie’s assistant director, Dave Halls, told him it was safe to use.
Forbes says that Halls was charged with negligent use of a deadly weapon because he told the crew that the gun was “cold,” which meant it was safe to use. Halls gave the weapon to Baldwin. The assistant director took a plea deal and was given a six-month probation with a suspended sentence.
The prosecutor said that after a year-long investigation, there is enough evidence to support the charges against the actor and the prop armorer. Authorities also noted that the study found that the two people were to blame for the accident that killed their coworker.
On the other hand, the district attorney said that the actor will not be charged with hurting Joel Souza, who injured his shoulder and was released from the hospital. Baldwin has not said anything about the charges yet.
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