‘Rust’ supplier may have mistakenly provided live rounds (Alec Baldwin shooting, ABQ gun store search warrant)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | November 30, 2021 | Matthew Reisen

[CedarDave]

The weapons supplier for “Rust” told investigators he may have mistakenly provided the live ammunition that killed the cinematographer and wounded the director during a shooting on set near Santa Fe early last month.

Authorities say movie star Alec Baldwin was practicing a cross draw in an old church on the Bonanza Creek Ranch movie set when he discharged a live round from a Colt .45 revolver, killing Halyna Hutchins, 42, and wounding Joel Souza, 48.

“No charges have been filed as of this date,” Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Juan Rios said Tuesday.

Seth Kenney, owner of PDQ Arm & Prop, told Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies he may have given reloaded ammunition to the film’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed – who loaded the gun – before the Oct. 21 shooting, according to court records.

The father of Gutierrez-Reed, well-known armorer Thell Reed, told deputies he supplied Kenney with live rounds for firearms training with actors during a separate movie shoot out of state and Kenney took the ammunition back to New Mexico with him.

On Tuesday, deputies were in the process of executing a search warrant on Kenney’s business in a strip mall in Northeast Albuquerque.

Prop Master Sarah Zachry told deputies the ammunition for “Rust” was provided by Kenney, by Gutierrez-Reed from a previous production and “extra rounds from an individual identified as ‘Billy Ray.'”

Deputies found other suspected live ammunition on the set during a search and Kenney told them he got his ammunition from Starline Brass.

[CedarDave]

With the search on for the source of the live ammunition, the case is getting complicated. Also making the case complicated involves the reason Baldwin pointed a gun he thought was unloaded at the cinematographer. Speculation ranges from his practicing fast draw for a scene no longer scheduled to personal animosity with the cinematographer for her requiring a retake of the current scene or one filmed earlier.

[mylife]

BS!!!

[CedarDave]

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[Col Frank Slade]

The armorer didn’t check the gun and neither did Baldwin.

[mylife]

[Spok]

Are they saying they couldn’t tell the difference between blanks and live ammunition by looking at it? This whole story is becoming surreal.

[AndyTheBear]

From my experience in the national guard it was very obvious at even a casual glance which rounds were live and which were blank. Is there some other kind of blank that looks like a live round?

[mylife]

It’s all on The armorer.

[Not_Who_U_Think]

I’m going with Reason Number Two, Alex.

Knowing what we know of Baldwin’s personality, I can see him being passive-aggressive with her over some petty difference and ‘pretending’ to shoot her.

[AnthonySoprano]

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They were not doing a scene that called for him to point and shoot gun.

He was F’ing around.

[mylife]

Yeas there are but it was the armorer’s job.

[Robert357]

It really doesn't matter who supplied the ammo or the kind of ammo. Firearm safety rules are to treat all firearms as if loaded, until you personally verify they are not. You also never point a firearm at anyone or anything you don't intend to destroy.

The pussyfooting around the basic firearms safety rules is just mindbogglingly. If it was anyone but Baldwin, he would have been charged with negligent homicide.

[Vaduz]

Mistakenly provided live rounds what the hell even Mr Magoo couldn’t make a mistake like that it’s how cover up stories save liberals.

[Erik Latranyi]

The person responsible is the one who pulls the trigger.

Do not fall for leftist dribble of who supplied what and who did what.

When handling a real firearm, the ultimate responsibility falls on the end user.

Nobody else.

[CedarDave]

The armorer didn’t check the gun and neither did Baldwin.

The information the armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed didn't check the gun is in the lengthy story, but due to ABQ Journal excerpt requirement I had to leave story information out.

[Kid Shelleen]

Something is up. Baldwin running to the Clinton smurf is ominous. His PR team must be working overtime.

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[mylife]

She effed up hard and now someone is dead.

[Veggie Todd]

Has Alec got his teardrop tattoo yet?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Nonsense

[Seruzawa]

There are dummy rounds that look real but they also are supposed to be identifiable. In any case no round that looks like a live round should have been inserted in the revolver. And Baldwin still should have checked.

Anyone but a Hollywood star would be under arrest by now.