New Mexico prosecutors on Thursday charged actor Alec Baldwin and film armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed with involuntary manslaughter in the October 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.
Halyna Hutchins was killed in the October 2021 incident, which also led to several lawsuits.
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Actor Alec Baldwin is pictured in New York on May 21, 2019. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed when Baldwin fired a prop gun on the set of the movie Rust in October 2021. (Evan Agostini/Invision/The Associated Press)
New Mexico prosecutors on Thursday charged actor Alec Baldwin and film armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film. Rust filming in October 2021.
Assistant director David Halls reached a plea deal in the case, prosecutors said.
Baldwin pointed a pistol at Hutchins when it went off, killing him and wounding the director, Joel Souza.