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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So sounds like the blanks stuff was a ruse. I bet Alec shot her in cold blood on purpose.
Nut job. Was he on meds?
Excellent information and presentation.
Alec Baldwin shot two people while allegedly rehearsing a scene but the two people he shot weren’t actors.
The dimbulb is worth 60-70 million, so he's got some cash to spread around.
Yep. Guilty.
His long history of alcohol and drug abuse and short temper doesn’t help.
She might be taking the fall for a nice payday...
Did you see her photos? Really incriminating photo with her and Baldwin posing with at least 25 guns.
Long history of that. His brother hates him. His daughter hates him. He sounds like a great guy.
Plus if he shot a camera girl and director on a street in Manhattan, nobody would care. He is snl Trump.
More realistic.
I like going to the movie gun database and checking out the various weapons used
Lot of info on them there
It was being shot in New Mexico. So was she, I guess.
First rule of guns according to my dad:
No such thing as a safe or unloaded gun.
Treat EVERY gun as deadly and NEVER point it at anything you’re not willing to kill.
The end.
An assistant director is declaring the gun safe and handing it over. Who then is the armorer and what is her job? Too many people involved in gun handling here.
Any gun owner going to take somebody else’s Word for whether a gun you’ve just been handed is loaded?
Not surprised about what happened after seeing the gun handler’s Facebook page photos and why the crew was terrified of the gun safety on set.
That’s Baldwin, right?
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