Photo from the set from the armorer's recently deleted Facebook page...
Posted on 10/23/2021 8:01:49 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
The “inexperienced” armorer in charge of weapons on set of Alec Baldwin’s movie “Rust” had given a gun to an 11-year-old actress without checking properly for safety, a report said.
Hannah Gutierrez Reed, 24, daughter of prominent Hollywood armorer Thell Reed, was head armorer on set in Santa Fe where Baldwin fired a prop gun loaded with a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.
Gutierrez-Reed’s alleged misstep happened on the set of the upcoming Nicholas Cage film, “The Old Way” and temporarily halted filming, sources told The Daily Beast.
“She was reloading the gun on the ground, where there were pebbles and stuff,” one source told the outlet. “We didn’t see her check it, we didn’t know if something got in the barrel or not.”
Gutierrez-Reed reportedly handed the gun to child actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong, forcing concerned crew members to intervene, the report said. The gun was then checked for barrel obstruction, according to the sources.
“She was a bit careless with the guns, waving it around every now and again,” a source said.
“There were a couple times she was loading the blanks and doing it in a fashion that we thought was unsafe.”
A “Rust” production source described Reed as “inexperienced and green,” to the outlet, adding that there had been two other incidents of accidental discharges by crew members.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
More like Hollywood nepotism, based on who her daddy is.
Wow! That’s only 24??
Sad.
Fallguy for Baldwin
Somebody is going to take the fall — but it won’t be him.
Yep, all these stories in the last 24 hours have been created and pushed to friendly news sources by Baldwin's legal/PR team.
Midget?
I got an unexpected shock from reading this. I had run into Thell Reed at his family’s BBQ restaurant in Bell,California many years ago. There was a giant stuffed bear that he had shot and killed as a teen in the restaurant. There were also newspaper articles posted on the walls showing him giving marksmanship demonstrations when he was in HS at other high schools. Interesting that guns weren’t evil back then.
Looks like Arrec Barrwin has got his fall girl...
There is another candidate...From the 911 call:
“We had two people accidentally shot on a movie set by a prop gun, we need help immediately,” script supervisor Mamie Mitchell told an emergency dispatcher. “We were rehearsing and it went off, and I ran out, we all ran out.”
The dispatcher asked if the gun was loaded with a real bullet.
“I cannot tell you. We have two injuries,” Mitchell replied. “And this (expletive) AD (assistant director Dave Halls ) that yelled at me at lunch, asking about revisions….He’s supposed to check the guns. He’s responsible for what happens on the set.”
target wad cutters look like no projectile ammo at least the 38 cal. ones the BOP used for practice.
The bad news is Baldwin’s legal and PR team will probably keep his ass out of jail, despite him deserving to spend the rest of his life there.
The good news is when the lawsuits start, they will all be directed at the deep pockets of Baldwin.
I like that Arrec's finger was still on the trigger.
Baldwin blasted the cinematographer with a real bullet. Not a blank. The slug went through her chest and hit the director who was standing behind her.
This story is getting more weird by the hour.
There is another post on FR that says they were target shooting.
That makes Baldwin dead meat. Pun not intended.
As top dog, he should have banned all live ammo from the set and fired anyone who did not follow his ban order.
Really weird. A guy who runs his mouth constantly about the evils of private ownership of guns, makes millions waving them around on film, allows real live ammo on the set, kills a lovely lady....
He is dead meat in court.
I’ll bet she gave great helmet.
Even off the shelf store bought .45 colt will do that.
They guy who got hit is lucky. A small woman would not absorb a .45 colt.
I love this scene from The Pacific.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu51rszgotI&ab_channel=SadethCheng
The police warrant said that there was blood splattered all over Baldwin and others and the woman was shot at extremely close range. So Baldwin’s clothing was confiscated as evidence since there was so much blood on it.
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