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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Will SNL “parody” him, now, like he did with Trump?
Everyone also remembers the Dick Cheney “jokes”.
Fair is fair.
If that’s right, look out. A producer of the film ended up killing people after 3 previous firearm incidents with the same crew. Ok then.
Freegards
I’m with everybody else. This don’t pass the smell test. Coming out this quickly it sounds like somebody is covering their ass (or,conversely- throwing somebody under the bus).
CC
He beat the crap out of his then-wife, Kim Basinger.
He’s a charter member of the Film Actors Guild (F.A.G.)
Perhaps this is a Baldwinsville swan song.
This is how he goes down. Acting and with a big bang for all the other wrongs he did along the way.
That is something he did. Yep. Not sure why he gets a pass most the time.
what would be fitting would be a parody of:
remember the black federal agent who lectured the class he was the only one in the room qualfied to use his glock, and then shot himself in the foot?
parody baldwin being that dude, maybe in a classroom, or on a movie set,...
Maybe.
He’s a real jerk, to be sure.
No idea.
She was a gentle person and suffered his abuse for a long time.
They’ll never do it.
He’s one of their fellow demons.
I can’t say 100 % but it is reported to be. The Girl is reported to be the gun keeper of the movie. Which I heard was gonna suck anyway.
Bingo! Did you see her other photos?
My guess is it was being done on the cheap as an ego project.
Yep, I saw all her photos, it took a while to fish ‘em out of the web archives, but I got the important one up full size at post #113 for ya.
She’s like, 22 years old? What kind of gun handler is that? Why did Baldwin hire her?
Pretty sure there will be a far more complete web scrubbing by Monday morning.
So he can handleher.
If it is a gun, it should have been treated as it was a gun. Someone has serious explaining to do.
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