![]() Baldwin has not been charged the movie producers were fined by safety authorities but the criminal investigation into the shooting on October 21 remains ongoing.'He was the one that handled the weapon that fired the round that led to the fatality,' he told GMA.Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said on Tuesday that charges could still be filed against Baldwin.The report noted the gun eventually malfunctioned during FBI testing after internal parts fractured, which caused the gun to go off in the cocked position without pulling the trigger.Sheriff reveals Alec Baldwin MAY still face charges for Rust shooting as new video shows him begging Hilaria to fly to New Mexico after he accidentally killed cinematographer I don't want to sit there and say you know, go get her and condemn her."īaldwin has repeatedly said that he pulled back the gun's hammer as far as he could without cocking the gun and released the hammer, but did not pull the trigger.Ī newly released FBI forensics report says the weapon could not be fired during FBI testing of its normal functioning without pulling the trigger while the gun was cocked. I have an impulse to say, I don't want to see anybody suffer. He said, "I mean maybe it's the Catholic in me. It's tragic."īaldwin also stressed he does not want to "condemn" Gutierrez Reed. (investigators are) going to say that this was an accident. He added, "I'm pretty confident neither one of them should ever work in a film set again. I don't want that, but I want everybody to know that those are the two people that are responsible for what happened."īaldwin said he believes Gutierrez Reed and Halls wouldn't be criminally charged. "I'm not sitting there saying I want them to, you know, go to prison, or I want their lives to be hell. There are two people who didn't do what they were supposed to do." ![]() Her job was to look at the ammunition and put in the dummy round or the blank round, and there wasn't supposed to be any live rounds on the set. Baldwin hit back in his CNN chat, "Someone put a live bullet in the gun who should have known better." Through their attorneys, Gutierrez Reed and Halls accused Baldwin of deflecting blame onto others. He said, "There is just this torrent of people attacking me who don't know the facts."īaldwin placed responsibility for the tragedy on Hannah Gutierrez Reed, 24, who served as the armorer and props assistant on "Rust", as well as assistant director Dave Halls, who handed him the gun. He is now awaiting a decision from prosecutors who will decide whether he should be criminally charged over the accident on October 21 last year.īaldwin also blamed former President Donald Trump, whom the actor famously impersonated on " Saturday Night Live", for adding to his stress over Halyna's death after the ex-US president blamed him for the tragedy - a move the actor said left him fearing for his safety. The FBI has still not tested live rounds that killed the mum-of-one, 42, for fingerprints to assess how they ended up on the New Mexico set of the western, Baldwin also revealed. In a new interview with CNN, the actor, 64, said the tragedy that saw cinematographer Halyna Hutchins shot dead has "taken years off his life." Alec Baldwin thinks neither he nor anyone else will face charges in the fatal " Rust" shooting.
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