American police reveal details of a pistol loaded with live bullets in the hands of actor Alec Baldwin

The US authorities revealed the details of the tragic accident that occurred on the set of a movie in New Mexico, where the actor Alec Baldwin accidentally killed a photographer and injured a director.

On Friday, a US court published a request sent to it by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office for a search warrant, which states that this pistol was one of three guns left by the guns responsible for the filming team of the Western "Rust", Hana Gutierrez, on a cart in front of a wooden building that was It depicts a scene.

According to police statements, assistant director, Dave Holz, came to the carriage and took that pistol, without suspecting it was loaded with live bullets, and transferred it to Baldwin, 63.

Police confirmed that Holes, when handing the gun to the actor, assured him that it was loaded with pellet bullets, according to "Rospa Today."

When the actor pulled the trigger during filming, the film's director of photography, Galina Hutchins, 42, was killed and director Joel Sousa, 48, who was standing next to her, was injured.

And the judicial files pointed out that Gutierrez, after the incident, pulled the casing of the bullet from the pistol and referred the weapon to the police.

It was not immediately clear how many bullets Baldwin fired during the incident.

According to press reports, Gutierrez, 24, is the daughter of weapons expert Thiel Reed, who has worked in the film sector for years.

Gutierrez indicated in a recent interview that she had been trained since childhood in gun maintenance and had just completed her first project as chief weapons supervisor, deciding at the same time that she wasn't convinced at first whether she was fit enough for the role.

Meanwhile, the New York Post revealed that another employee who was responsible for storing this pistol joined the filming team a while ago, and was hired to replace someone else, against the backdrop of chaos caused by the protest of part of the filming team over working conditions.

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