Posted on 06/19/2024 11:47:41 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra
Alec Baldwin was sloppy and reckless with firearms on the set of “Rust” before the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, prosecutors have contended.
According to court documents obtained by ETonline, the 66-year-old leading man engaged in “horseplay” during firearm training, including one instance when he fired a blank round at a crew member, whom he’d been using to establish his line of sight. Prosecutors further alleged Baldwin was also “erratic and aggressive” during filming, contributing to safety concerns on set.
Baldwin would also allegedly use his prop firearm as a pointer, relying on it to acknowledge and direct different people while filming. Prosecutors in their latest filing additionally accused him of firing the weapon on at least one occasion despite the fact that “cut” had already been called.
Baldwin was rehearsing a scene inside the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., when he mistakenly shot Hutchins on Oct. 21, 2021. He was seated in a church pew, practicing a move in which he whips a pistol from its holster, when it suddenly went off. The film’s director, Joel Souza, was also struck in the shoulder.
Earlier this year, “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in connection with Hutchins’ death and was ordered to spend 18 months in jail.
Baldwin, who has long insisted he did not pull the trigger prior to the deadly gunfire, is meanwhile scheduled to go to trial on July 9 in Santa Fe, where he will also face a count of manslaughter. Prosecutors have also said Baldwin, who served as a producer for “Rust,” often ignored Gutierrez-Reed when she was providing him instruction, and that he would often rush cast and crew to keep them as close to on schedule as possible.
What’s more, when filming resumed on “Rust” after the deadly gunfire, this time in Montana, prosecutors day Baldwin insisted on not being held to industry safety standards.
If convicted, the Emmy-winning actor faces up to 18 months behind bars.
“he fired a blank round at a crew member”!!!!
WFT!
It was a real gun. Common for “autheniticity” in the film industry. Baldwin knew that.
You never even dry fire a pistol at someone you don’t intend to harm. This is basic firearms saftey 101.
This is negligent homicide. No doubt about it.
They better have video or witnesses of said horseplay or it never happened......having said that, I’m sure he was, proof or no.
He’ll buy his way to aquitta like all the Hollywood left does every time.
Some footage showed at the armorers trial showed him waving a gun around and acting like a complete nut.
Reckless, reckless and arrogant.
Rules for thee but not for he…
Alec killed Halyna Hutchins who was exposing pedophila in Hollywood.
Baldwin was f*cking around, WITH A FUNCTIONAL WEAPON, and a woman died and another man gravely wounded.
What is taking so long? Why must years pass before justice is served? This is not a complicated case with thousands of docs, hundreds of witnesses.
A "blank round" is what killed Brandon Lee.
Unfortunately, there was a projectile lodged in the barrel.
i thought the shooting was negligent before.
but now that this has come out, it seems like he was trying to normalize and minimize his negligence
now i think he was muddying the waters to prep plausible deniability for murder.
Yeah I saw that, I watched almost every minute of that trial.
It’s WAY past time for this guy to get what’s been coming to him for years....I just have a sick feeling he’s gonna weasel out of it like he always does.
This is news to me. I always took him as an anti-gun nut who thinks all guns are icky. Of course, the news media would never report this type of behavior.
He deserves more than 18 months.
Movies are make-believe, so Baldwin the actor is innocent.
Baldwin the producer may well be guilty for his gross negligence in administering safety regulations. But the prosecutors seem to me to be confused and incompetent.
In order to determine Guilt or Innocence, we must first determine Whom we are talking about. I think Alec will be fine.
My theory is she angered or annoyed him by something she said or did, and his arrogant bullying temper took over…he aimed and fired to frighten her
So if an actor is monkeying around on a set with a golf cart, loses control and runs over a kid killing him, that’s cool since movies are make-believe?
It was a functional firearm. Everyone knew it. Baldwin is f*cking around with it, capping off blanks at low level employees who’d get fired for complaining. He then killed a woman and gravely wounded another man because “someone” left a live round in the pistol.
But under your logic, since Baldwin’s an actor, he need not adhere to the #1 basic firearm safety precaution of never pointing, let alone pulling trigger, at what you don’t intend to kill, literally the first lesson in any course [or from Dad].
Sure, buddy.
Baldwin was also “erratic and aggressive” during filming
Isn’t he like that ALL the time?
Edited for accuracy.
And lots of it.
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