“Rust” movie armorer says somebody might have put bullet in gun
By Associated Press
LOS ANGELES: The girl in command of weapons on the film set the place actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins mentioned Wednesday evening that she had inspected the gun Baldwin shot however doesn’t understand how a reside bullet ended up inside.
“Who put those in there and why is the central question,” Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer for the film “Rust” mentioned in an announcement issued by one in every of her attorneys, Jason Bowles of Albuquerque, New Mexico. “Hannah kept guns locked up, including throughout lunch on the day in question (Oct. 21), and she instructed her department to watch the cart containing the guns when she was pulled away for her other duties or on a lunch break.”
The assertion goes on to say that “Hannah did everything in her power to ensure a safe set. She inspected the rounds that she loaded into the firearms that day. She always inspected the rounds.”
The assertion provides that she inspected the rounds earlier than handing the firearm to assistant director David Halls “by spinning the cylinder and showing him all of the rounds and then handing him the firearm.”
“No one could have anticipated or thought that someone would introduce live rounds into this set,” Gutierrez Reed’s assertion mentioned.
The assertion additionally famous that “she did firearms training for the actors as well as Mr. Baldwin, she fought for more training days and she regularly emphasized to never point a firearm at a person.”
On Oct. 29, attorneys for Hannah Gutierrez Reed mentioned she doesn’t know the place the reside rounds discovered there got here from and blamed producers for unsafe working circumstances.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza has mentioned there was “some complacency” in how weapons have been dealt with on the set of “Rust.”
Investigators initially discovered 500 rounds of ammunition — a mixture of blanks, dummy rounds and what gave the impression to be reside rounds. Industry specialists have mentioned reside rounds ought to by no means be on set.
Additional ammunition, a dozen revolvers and a rifle additionally have been seized within the search of a white truck used for storing props together with firearms, in response to a list record filed Friday in courtroom.
