The assistant director of Rust has told a court he missed a final safety check on the gun that killed the film’s cinematographer – as footage of Alec Baldwin firing blanks before the fatal shooting was shown.<\/p>\n
Hannah Gutierrez, the armourer responsible for the weapons on the set, is currently on trial in New Mexico<\/strong> and has pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence.<\/p>\n Baldwin<\/strong>, the star and co-producer of the western film, denies involuntary manslaughter and faces a separate trial in July. He has maintained that he never pulled the gun’s trigger.<\/p>\n Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins<\/strong> died in October 2021 after a gun held by the Hollywood star, 65, went off during a rehearsal on the set on the outskirts of Santa Fe.<\/p>\n On Thursday, jurors were shown footage of Baldwin waving a gun before the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n They also heard from assistant director David Halls<\/strong>, who last year entered a plea bargain for negligent use of a deadly weapon, receiving a six-month suspended sentence.<\/p>\n He was emotional at times as he told Gutierrez’s trial: “I was negligent checking the gun properly.”<\/p>\n Halls told the court how Gutierrez showed him the rounds in the reproduction Colt 45 revolver and that he recalled “seeing three to four what I believed to be dummy rounds”, which looked “very distinctive” and different from live rounds.<\/p>\n However, he said he did not remember Gutierrez “fully rotating” the gun cylinder to show him all six rounds.<\/p>\n Asked if he let the safety check pass, he said: “I did.”<\/p>\n Gutierrez then gave Baldwin the gun, he told the court. Gutierrez has not testified but told investigators she left the loaded gun in the hands of Halls.<\/p>\n His testimony also included an account of standing about a metre from Ms Hutchins when the single gunshot rang out. As she was on the ground, he asked if she was all right.<\/p>\n “She said, ‘I can’t feel my legs’,” he said.<\/p>\n Halls said he struggled to understand how a live round could have been fired. “The idea that it was a live round of ammunition that went off… it wasn’t computing,” he said.<\/p>\n Halls and props supplier Sarah Zachry both told the court they did not recall Gutierrez rattle-testing rounds on set to check they were dummies.<\/p>\n Halls also defended Baldwin, saying the actor did not endanger safety by rushing production, as prosecutors allege.<\/p>\n Jurors were also shown footage of Baldwin waving a gun and firing blanks in front of crew members on the film set.<\/p>\n The actor can be heard shouting: “One more! One more! One more! Right away! Let’s reload!”<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News:<\/strong> Firearms expert Bryan Carpenter was taken through the footage and told the court Baldwin appeared to be firing “full flash” blanks.<\/p>\n Mr Carpenter said he believed Baldwin was “entirely too close” to crew members.<\/p>\n Lawyers for Gutierrez say problems on the set were beyond her control. Prosecutors say she is to blame for bringing live ammunition on set.<\/p>\n The trial continues.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] The assistant director of Rust has told a court he missed a final safety check on the gun that killed the film’s cinematographer – as footage of Alec Baldwin firing blanks before the fatal shooting was shown. Hannah Gutierrez, the armourer responsible for the weapons on the set, is currently on trial in New …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Alec](\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/01\/768x432\/skynews-alec-baldwin_6426969.jpg?20240119204913\")
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\n Alec Baldwin faces a separate trial later this year
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\n Hannah Gutierrez denies all the charges against her. Pic: Luis Sanchez Saturno\/Santa Fe New Mexican\/AP
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