Baldwin fired a gun used as a prop, killing the movie’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, according to the police.
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Joel Souza, the director who was shot Thursday on the set of Alec Baldwin’s film “Rust,” was released from a hospital in New Mexico late Thursday and is expected to make a full recovery, according to a person with knowledge of his condition. “We should have more information at the beginning of next week.” “It’s barely been 24 hours since this happened,” he said. Rios said investigators were executing search warrants at Bonanza Creek Ranch, where the shooting took place. In a 911 call, audio of which was obtained by The Albuquerque Journal, a woman who identified herself as a script supervisor reported that two people had been “accidentally shot by a prop gun.” According to the newspaper, the woman said she didn’t know if the gun had contained a real bullet, adding: “We were rehearsing and it went off and I ran out. The details of the shooting are still hazy. “Regarding the projectile, a focus of the investigation is what type it was and how did it get there,” he said. Rios was not able to identify the type of gun or projectile involved, or to answer the central question of how it ended up killing the film’s director of photography and wounding the director. He said that Alec Baldwin, who fired the fatal shot, had gone to the sheriff’s office voluntarily on Thursday to deliver his statement and had been “very cooperative.” “Apparently there were quite a few people at the scene of what happened.”
“Detectives entered the movie set today and continue to interview potential witnesses,” said Juan Rios, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office.
The investigation into Thursday’s shooting is “active and ongoing,” and crucial details remain unknown, the Santa Fe County sheriff’s office said on Friday afternoon. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press “These clothes appeared to have blood stains,” Detective Cano added.īonanza Creek Ranch, near Santa Fe, N.M., on Friday, one day after a shooting left one crew member dead and another injured. Baldwin “was wearing Old Western style clothing during the filming,” and changed into his street clothes before turning over his costume to the department’s evidence technician, he wrote. The armorer “was given the prop gun after it was fired by actor Alec Baldwin” and “then took the spent casing” out of the weapon before handing it over to the police, Detective Cano wrote. Souza, the director, watching the scene play out when the projectile struck her, the police said. Hutchins, who was 42, was sitting in front of Mr. Detective Cano did not say what the armorer told investigators who arrived at the Bonanza Creek resort, where the film was shooting.
The weapon was “set up” on the tray by the movie’s weapons specialist, or armorer, along with a Western-style gun belt used in the scene. The assistant director “did not know live rounds were in the prop gun,” Detective Joel Cano wrote in the affidavit. While the five-page filing provides many basic logistical details of the shooting, it leaves many questions unanswered - namely how a live round ended up in a gun fired by an actor. No charges have been filed in the shooting. Baldwin has cooperated with investigators, a spokesman for the department said. The first official account of the killing, which has rocked the entertainment industry and raised questions about workplace safety issues in film productions, was released late Friday in an affidavit filed by the Santa Fe County sheriff’s department seeking to search the rustic wooden building where the shooting happened.Ī state magistrate judge granted the request, which includes an examination of the gun for biological evidence as well as a review of cameras, film, memory cards or other video recorders that may provide information in the case. Baldwin pulled the trigger a few minutes later, discharging a live projectile that hit the director, Joel Souza, in the shoulder and struck the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, in the chest, killing her. The assistant director of the western film “Rust” grabbed a prop pistol from a gray cart and handed it to the movie’s star, Alec Baldwin, shouting “cold gun!” - which was supposed to indicate that it did not contain any live rounds, and was safe to handle around the crew huddled by the camera.īut the weapon fired when Mr. Image Bonanza Creek Ranch, one day after the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust.” Credit.