'I didn't pull the trigger,' Alec Baldwin says. 'I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.'
, set to air Thursday, Baldwin appeared baffled at how the shooting happened.
"Well the trigger wasn't pulled, I didn't pull the trigger," he said in a clip released Wednesday by ABC News."No, no, no, I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never." Hutchins, 42, was killed and director Joel Souza, 48, wounded by a round apparently fired by Baldwin on theOct. 21, at Bonanza Creek Ranch, in Santa Fe County, officials have said.
“I have no idea" how it happened, Baldwin told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos."Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be on the property.""She was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with [her] and liked by everyone who worked with [her] and admired," he said, his voice choking with emotion and as he wiped away tears."I mean, even now I find it hard to believe that. It just doesn't seem real to me.
However, Halls' attorney has said her client didn't hand the gun to Baldwin and checking to see if it was loadedA representative for the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating the case, on Wednesday declined to discuss Baldwin's interview.
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