Good answer!
Posted on 10/22/2021 6:52:48 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
An assistant director unwittingly handed Alec Baldwin a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to use in the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer, court records released Friday show.
“Cold gun,” the assistant director announced, according to a search warrant filed in a Santa Fe court.
Instead, the gun was loaded with live rounds, and when Baldwin pulled the trigger Thursday on the set of a Western, he killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
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According to the records, the gun was one of three that the film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez, had set on a cart outside the wooden structure where a scene was being acted. Assistant director Dave Halls grabbed the gun from the cart and brought it inside to Baldwin, unaware that it was loaded with live rounds, a detective wrote in the search warrant application.
The film’s script supervisor, Mamie Mitchell, said she was standing next to Hutchins when she was shot.
“I ran out and called 911 and said ‘Bring everybody, send everybody, ” Mitchell told The Associated Press. “This woman is gone at the beginning of her career. She was an extraordinary, rare, very rare woman.”
Mitchell said she and other crew members were attending a private memorial service Friday night in Santa Fe.
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Baldwin should still have checked the pistol. No excuse.
Why don’t they just use CGI for such things.
Alec should have taken an NRA Gun Safety Course.
Why live rounds on the set? No reason other than money/costs. Stupidity!
A Columbo episode in the making.
Somebody needs to be charged with negligent homicide.
And three loaded guns with live rounds sitting on the donut cart unsupervised.
If it were a Russian roulette scene, he would have checked.
This doesn’t ring true.
Baldwin pointed the gun and pulled trigger.
Baldwin didn’t check the gun.
(Probably wouldn’t know how to)..
Good answer!
I’ve never seen a blank. Are blanks easy to distinguish from live ammunition?
Negligent to even point a gun at anyone.
First and for most rule.
Where’s the safety check from anyone?
Alex and his production company should be sued for everything that arrogant big mouth owns.
Time to review the Chain of Custody.
I doubt this.
There is no reason to hand an actor a “prop” gun with a live round in it and tell him its safe.
That does not happen.
That is a story that is told to get the actor/producer out of hot water.
What if Mr. Baldwin had a previous conjugal relationship with the Decedent. That needed to be kept secret.
I never heard of something like this happening before on a movie set. Why now?
How is even possible to make such a mistake? Whose gun was it, and why was a fully loaded gun even on the set considering how gun unfriendly California is? None of this makes any sense.
Not looking good for him.
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