On Tuesday, actor Alec Baldwin, 64, was formally charged with negligent homicide.
reported, among other things CNN.
– I didn’t quit
While filming the 2021 western movie “Rust”, Baldwin shoots a gun, which turns out to be loaded. The bullet hit cinematographer Helena Hutchins, who eventually lost her life.
He previously blogged He denied responsibility for the shooting.
– I didn’t quit. I wasn’t going to point a gun at someone and pull the trigger. Never, Baldwin said in an interview with hv news in 2021.
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Baldwin’s colleague, weapons officer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, is also charged with negligent homicide.
On Tuesday, new documents were announced in the case depicting an anarchist film set.
The video shows the seconds after the fatal shot
In the documents, the Santa Fe County District Attorney’s Office charged the actor with “numerous instances of extremely reckless acts.”
In the affidavit, Special Counsel Robert Schilling also said that Baldwin’s phone “distracted him” during gun training.
“This thoughtless deviation from known standards, practices and protocols directly caused the fatal shooting,” Schilling claimed, adding:
Baldwin knew that the first rule of gun safety is never to point a gun at someone you don’t intend to shoot.
Alec Baldwin is being sued after the tragedy
The documents also outline many of the actions that led to the shooting. Among other things, that a support gun was not used during the recording, that the weapons officer left the set in violation of protocol and that prior safety complaints were not dealt with.
Attorneys for Baldwin and Gutierrez Reid intend to fight the case in court, according to the report BBC.
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