The film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, has insisted she was not aware a live round had made its way into the gun Baldwin used when he accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
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Gutierrez-Reed previouslybroke her silenceabout the shooting, saying in a statement via her lawyers that “untruths that have been told to the media,” and that she was “devastated and completely beside herself over the events that have transpired.”
Her attorneys claimed Gutierrez-Reed had “no idea where the live rounds came from” and said she was under pressure on the set from working two jobs as both armorer and props assistant.
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Gutierrez-Reedtold deputiesthat she had checked the rounds inside the firearm Baldwin used the day of the shooting to make sure the gun was loaded with “dummies,” not real bullets, and that she locked up the guns in a safe on the prop truck,according to the search warrantaffidavit. She also said no live ammunition was ever kept on theRustset.
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During an Oct. 27 press conference, Sheriff Adan Mendoza said that investigators had found “500 rounds of ammunition” on the film set, which included “a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and what we are suspecting are live rounds.”
Filming onRusthas been halted and an investigation into the Oct. 21 incident is ongoing. No charges have been filed at this time.
source: people.com
