After the fatal shot at a camerawoman, the head lighting technician of the film set sued Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin.

The main actor and producer of the western "Rust" was accused of negligence, lawyers announced on Wednesday.

In the lawsuit filed by chief lighting technician Serge Svetnoy with a court in Los Angeles, the producers and weapons master Hannah Gutierrez-Reed are also named.

Baldwin, who is also the producer of the film, had practiced grip exercises with a prop weapon during a rehearsal on October 21 while the western was being made in New Mexico. A shot went off that fatally wounded cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Director Joel Souza was hit in the shoulder and injured. The revolver had apparently been loaded with at least one real bullet. How this could be done is still unclear.

According to the complaint, illuminator Svetnoy said he suffered "severe mental damage" from Hutchin's accidental death.

Her death was caused "by negligent acts and omissions" Baldwin and others.

"There was simply no reason that a sharp bullet was stuck in the Colt .45 or anywhere on the set of 'Rust'."

This was "a deadly threat to everyone in the area."

Violation of common rules

Baldwin, assistant director David Halls and Gutierrez-Reed did not adhere to the rules of the film industry when dealing with guns and "allowed a revolver loaded with live ammunition to be aimed at living people," the lawsuit said. 

Svetnoy had already worked with Hutchins in several films. According to the complaint, after the accident he rushed to his girlfriend, who was fatally hit and fell to the ground. "As he held her, he noticed that the hand he had placed on her back was soaking wet with her blood." The next 20 to 30 minutes were "the longest of his life." He tried to "close." help and stand by while he watched helplessly as she inexorably lost consciousness ”. 

Gutierrez-Reed's lawyers once again emphasized on Wednesday that their client did not know how the live ammunition got to the set.

"We are convinced it was sabotage and something is framed on Hannah," said her attorney Jason Bowles.

"We also believe someone was tampering with the scene before the police arrived."