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Alec Baldwin fired prop gun that killed woman on film set of Rust

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins airlifted to hospital, where she died, while director Joel Souza also injured

Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a movie set in an accident that killed the film’s director of photography and injured its director, authorities in New Mexico have said.

A statement from the Santa Fe Sheriff’s office said Baldwin, who is acting in and producing the film Rust, had fired the prop gun in an incident on Thursday.

Deputies were dispatched to the set at about 2pm in Bonanza Creek Ranch when a 911 caller reported a shooting, added the statement.

“The sheriff’s office confirms that two individuals were shot on the set of Rust. Halyna Hutchins, 42, director of photography, and Joel Souza, 48, director, were shot when a prop firearm was discharged by Alec Baldwin, 68, producer and actor,” it said.

“Ms Hutchins was transported, via helicopter, to University of New Mexico hospital where she was pronounced dead by medical personnel. Mr Souza was transported by ambulance to Christus St Vincent regional medical center where he is undergoing treatment for his injuries.”

“This investigation remains open and active. No charges have been filed in regard to this incident.”

Juan Rios, from the sheriff’s office, said: “Mr Baldwin came in voluntarily to speak with investigators and after speaking with them he left.”

A spokesperson for Baldwin said there was an accident on the set involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reported Baldwin was seen on Thursday outside the sheriff’s office in tears, but attempts to get comment from him were unsuccessful.

“According to investigators, it appears that the scene being filmed involved the use of a prop firearm when it was discharged,” Rios told the Albuquerque Journal. “Detectives are investigating how and what type of projectile was discharged.”

Production has been halted on the film, which was being directed by Souza with Baldwin producing and starring in it.

Hutchins, 42, was director of photography on the 2020 action film Archenemy, starring Joe Manganiello. A 2015 graduate of the American Film Institute, she was named a “rising star” by American Cinematographer in 2019.

“I’m so sad about losing Halyna. And so infuriated that this could happen on a set,” said the Archenemy director, Adam Egypt Mortimer, on Twitter. “She was a brilliant talent who was absolutely committed to art and to film.”

“The details are unclear at this moment, but we are working to learn more, and we support a full investigation into this tragic event,” the International Cinematographers Guild’s president, John Lindley, and executive director Rebecca Rhine said in a statement.

Tributes to Hutchins have poured in over social media.

“I will miss you my friend … this is devastating,” the director James Cullen Bressack wrote under a video that Hutchins had posted two days earlier. At the time she had written: “One of the perks of shooting a western is you get to ride horses on your day off.”

The model Katya Zharkova also said she would miss Hutchins “terribly” while the actor Jeff Daniel Phillips described her death as “an absolute tragedy.”

Filming for Rust was set to continue into early November, according to a news release from the New Mexico Film Office.

The movie is about a 13-year-old boy who is left to fend for himself and his younger brother after the death of their parents in 1880s Kansas, according to the Internet Movie Database website. The teenager goes on the run with his long-estranged grandfather, played by Baldwin, after the boy is sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher.

In 1993, Brandon Lee, 28, son of the late martial-arts star Bruce Lee, died after being hit by a .44-caliber slug while filming a death scene for the movie The Crow. The gun was supposed to have fired a blank, but an autopsy turned up a bullet lodged near his spine.

Alec Baldwin fired prop gun that killed woman on film set of Rust

Doo-doo happens.

When I lived in Chicago I shot this guy with .22 snake shot with a .22 Sterling pistol. I pointed it at his knees. He got shot on him from his elbows down.

It served him right since he tried to rip me off for $100 in late 70s. That was a lot of cash back then.

I knew what he was using it for and did not charge him any juice. When he was late I put out the word on him. Someone told me they saw him going into Food & Liquor store on main drag. I drove over there and caught him coming out front door.

I hollered, "Come out here!" on traffic side of truck. I was standing there with my arms crossed. I said, "So where is my money?"

He starts to give me a line of BS, so I grab his shirt and tell him, "If you don't get my money FAST (I look left and car is coming.) you might have an accident." I pushed him back. He rocked back on his heels. I pulled him back just before the car hit him. It as so close the car stopped.

His eyes got big around and he screamed at me, "YOU'RE ON DRUGS! YOU GOTTA BE ON DRUGS!"

I had my cash the next day.

I told that story on the Chicago Outfit Facebook page and one of those guys said, "You would have made a good enforcer." ROTFLMAO!

When Brandon Lee was killed, it was not actually a bullet that killed him, but the wax plug that was used in the prop blank. I know three of the people who worked on the film and there was a lot of finger pointing and blame going around. In the guns used on this set, subsequently from the whole Brandon Lee death, most if not all prop guns are fitted with barrels that have a built in plug that allow gas to escape, but prevents any kind of batting or wax from the blank to be discharged.

Judging by the sound of this, and the fact that two people were hurt, someone likely did in fact put a live round in the mix.

Remember they just came down from a Strike that was supposed to happen, and a lot of folks who have been treated poorly were and likely are still angry. Baldwin is notoriously rude and a prick to people on the set. I am betting money that between the prop master, one of his minions, the strike and Baldwin being a prick that a perfect storm erupted and that is most likely how it ended like this.

While it is a tragedy, and probably a little karma, I sincerely doubt that Donald Trump or anyone who dislikes Alec Baldwin would have wished that on him. No, this sort of thing is reserved for those with no impulse control. There is a saying. Republicans own the guns, but democrats use them on other people.

Baldwin is obnoxious and now joins the shocking roster of celebs who've killed.

Yep, too bad nothing will come of it. Except another massive "gun control" push.

2. Never point a weapon at anything/anyone that you don't intend to kill.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=azacEn1OU_4

The bullshit is piling up

When I worked for Illinois State Highways, we got a new Lead Lead Worker. One of the guys said of him, "This guy is a Captain Queeg."

One time I was in the office and he said to me, "I'm going to run this yard just like the Army."

I said, "Yeah? Does that mean I can roll a frag under your desk?" ROTFLMAO!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum#Death

Movie acting is really rather dangerous

en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/Jeffrey_Hunter#Death

But aren't The Five great when they're not being tepid, idiotic or girlish? If Gutfeld would just stick to skewering the enemy as only he can do and lay off torturing his motley crew of guests he'd be the best thing on TV -- or the 2nd.

Movie acting is really rather dangerous

Yeah, ask Vic Morrow about that.

Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a racist who is taken back in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: as a Jewish man in Vichy France, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a Vietnamese man about to be killed by U.S. soldiers.

May he rot in hell for that >:-8