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A movie weapons supervisor is facing up to 18 months in prison for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust,” with her sentencing scheduled for Monday in a New Mexico state court.

Movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted in March by a jury on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and has been held for more than a month at a county jail on the outskirts of Santa Fe.

Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer for “Rust,” was pointing a gun at Hutchins when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.

Prosecutors blamed Gutierrez-Reed for unwittingly bringing live ammunition onto the set of “Rust” where it was expressly prohibited and for failing to follow basic gun safety protocols. After a two-week trial, the jury deliberated for about three hours in reaching its verdict.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 7 months ago (12 children)

I think this is a case of nepotism. Her father was a well known armorer. It turns out that does not count as experience.

You are correct that the person in charge of hiring (the producer) should be charged as well.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Oh, which one? Because there were six.

Funnily enough, the DA decided that Baldwin wasn't actually doing anything as one of them, which I don't think should be a surprise to people familiar with the idea of celebrity producers.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (10 children)

If you are given a loaded gun on a movie set and told it's safe by the person in charge of gun safety, you can't be blamed when it goes off.

Maybe he is as fault for cutting costs but that's not at all what he was being charged with.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Proper gun safety is to always check yourself.l, especially since they had live ammo on the set. These are tools that kill people, you can never be too safe and he should have checked the mag before they shot.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

A movie set is not supposed to have a single round of live ammo.

Also you can’t compare actors to other people holding guns for the reason above.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

especially since they had live ammo on the set.

At that point all gun safety is already thrown out of the window

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