Posted on 10/24/2021 9:13:42 PM PDT by conservative98
The director of “Rust” told investigators that he had been standing beside the film’s cinematographer as the actor Alec Baldwin sat in a wooden church pew, rehearsing a scene in which he draws a gun and points it at the camera lens, according to an affidavit released Sunday night. The director, Joel Souza, said he then heard what “sounded like a whip and then loud pop.”
Mr. Souza saw the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, grabbing her midsection and starting to stumble backward. Then he noticed he was bleeding from his shoulder. He and Ms. Hutchins had been shot by the lead actor in their film.
The new details emerged on Sunday night when the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office released an affidavit used to obtain a search warrant to seize everything from camera memory cards to bone fragments and firearm discharge residue from the production site outside Santa Fe where the shooting took place on Thursday.
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According to the affidavit, Mr. Halls grabbed the revolver from a gray, two-tiered tray set up by Ms. Gutierrez-Reed. Mr. Halls handed the gun to Mr. Baldwin and shouted, “cold gun,” which on a film set typically refers to an unloaded firearm.
While setting up the scene, the crew had to reposition the camera because there was a shadow. Mr. Russell told the detective that Mr. Baldwin was explaining how he was going to draw the gun, pulling it out from the holster, when the firearm discharged.
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Mr. Souza, the director, told the detective that because the crew had been setting up the scene when the gun discharged, the incident had not been filmed.
After the firearm was discharged, Mr. Russell told the detective he “remembered Joel having blood on his person, and Ms. Hutchins speaking and saying she couldn’t feel her legs.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“Guns don’t kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people!”
“ How do you fire a gun while pulling it out of a holster?”
By pulling the trigger.
I think Brian Laundrie’s parents are involved.
Am I confused?
>>>>Single action revolver. He either would have been practicing drawing the gun and cocking the hammer or (even worse) he was practicing drawing a gun that was already cocked.<<<
That’s where I come in as well. It’s a SINGLE ACTION REVOLVER! Takes a new step to cock it. WTF, Over???
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Explanation doesn’t make sense. I agree. In any case, he pulled the trigger when he shouldn’t have.
rehearsing a scene in which he draws a gun and points it at the camera lens, (cocks the hammer and pulls the trigger) should evidently be in there somewhere.
Sadly after instances such these the finality of it after fully digested is simply expressed as “I didn’t know it was loaded.” Which might be included in manslaughter charges.
Baldwin might be “Munson’d” after all is said and done.
Didn’t Robert Blake go a similar route?
“when the gun discharged
Well, the newspuppets from The Slimes, Simon Romero and Julia Jacobs, got it into the third person.
Maybe they can try for the fourth or fifth person...”
I just thought of something... Those old western guns, if it was indeed an old western gun was kept with an unloaded cylinder under the hammer at all times.
Was this gun used that day an old single action pistol which should have had an empty chamber underneath the hammer? As was practiced in the day. Hmmmmm.
If you watch just about any firearm video on Youtube, the presenter makes an extreme effort to start off with an explicit check of the gun. It's unloaded. It's verified. I'm showing you. You can see. This is a safe gun.
And that's a video that you might watch in your living room 2 years later.
But on a live set for a major motion picture? Just grab it, shout "cold gun" and it's all good bro.
They called it a misfire. That's not what a misfire is, though.
This adds to my earlier speculation, they were setting up to use dummy rounds, not blanks.
Next, I think there was a worn sear.
With a worn sear, he wouldn’t have to pull the trigger, just cock the hammer.
If blanks were involved, the gun would not have been pointed at the camera. That’s why I think they were dummy rounds, which are used when the camera looks at the front of the gun.
Also dummy rounds are often indistinguishable from live rounds, you couldn’t tell with a visual inspection. They was you test dummy rounds is you point the gun in a safe direction at the ground, and pull the trigger as many times as there are cylinders.
A screen is used for blanks.
Two assumptions I see over and over in these posts I find irritating, that they were intending to use blanks, and that Baldwin pulled the trigger.
Neither can be assumed based on what little we know, instead there are contra-indications.
Maybe it’s just training but if someone hands me a gun and tells me it’s not loaded I’m going to make sure of it myself.
One is beginning to suspect that the 24yo armorer MIGHT have been conducting recreational shooting for the cool kids, thus the presence of real ammunition on the set.
Toss in a mixup and the stage is set for tragedy. She was someone's mom and wife. We know people were quitting the project because of poor gun safety.
One would think that the investigators will also ask... anyone drinking or smoking dope around firearms?
The people who quit will tell all.
There's something wrong here.
I'm having trouble getting my head around "accident".
I also looked back into Baldwin's history. Sounds like he's handled plenty of guns before.
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