Rust shooting: armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed found guilty of involuntary manslaughter
- Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed by a live round the armourer had mistakenly loaded into a revolver to be used by actor Alec Baldwin on the film set
- During the trial, a detective cited circumstantial evidence that Gutierrez-Reed unknowingly brought live bullets to Rust from a previous production
A New Mexico jury on Wednesday found Rust armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed guilty of involuntary manslaughter, ending a trial over Hollywood’s first on-set fatal shooting in nearly 30 years.
Ten days of testimony had focused on whether the relatively inexperienced armourer endangered fellow crew and cast members in her handling and supervision of firearms on the low-budget production set in New Mexico.
Jurors acquitted Gutierrez-Reed on a second charge of evidence tampering.
Just after lunch on October 21, 2021, Gutierrez-Reed mistakenly loaded a live round into a reproduction Colt .45 revolver that actor Alec Baldwin was using inside a movie-set church outside Santa Fe.
Baldwin cocked the gun, pointed it toward the camera and it fired one live bullet that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza. Baldwin denies having pulled the trigger. His own manslaughter trial is set for July 10.