A jury has convicted a movie weapons supervisor of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust.” Wednesday's verdict capped a two-week trial of movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal in October 2021.
A jury convicted a movie weapons supervisor of involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal on the set of the Western movie “Rust.” Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the former armorer at the movie “Rust”, listens to closing arguments in her trial at district court on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M.
Messages seeking comment about Wednesday’s verdict from Baldwin’s spokeswoman and a lawyer were not immediately returned. “We end exactly where we began — in the pursuit of justice for Halyna Hutchins,” Morrissey told jurors. “Hannah Gutierrez failed to maintain firearms safety, making a fatal accident willful and foreseeable.”AP correspondent Margie Szaroleta reports on closing arguments in the involuntary manslaughter trial for the armorer on the Alec Baldwin movie “Rust.”
Inside the courtroom Wednesday, Gutierrez-Reed’s mother reacted with dismay at the conviction, bursting into tears and cursing the proceedings as her daughter was led away.Juror Alberto Sanchez said Gutierrez-Reed could have paused work on the set to address safety issues. Jurors concluded she brought“Pretty much it was just that never did the safety checks,” said Sanchez, whose work nearby in Los Alamos has involved safety decisions. “Never checked the rounds, to pull them out to shake them.
To drive the point home, Bowles played a video outtake from another day in which Baldwin fired a revolver loaded with blanks — including a shot after a director calls “cut.”
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