Alec Baldwin charged with negligent homicide: New details

Alec Baldwin charged with negligent homicide: New details

On Tuesday, actor Alec Baldwin, 64, was formally charged with negligent homicide.

reported, among other things CNN.

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.

silent: Actor Alec Baldwin has learned that fellow cinematographer and cinematographer Helena Hutchins died after being hit by a prop gun fired by Baldwin himself on the set of “Rust” this fall. Video: Santa Fe Police Department
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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.

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.

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.

First interview: Hollywood star Alec Baldwin is interviewed for the first time after he shot and killed a cinematographer on the set of Rust.
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“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.

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.

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Attorneys for Baldwin and Gutierrez Reid intend to fight the case in court, according to the report BBC.

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