Usa, set murder: live bullets in Alec Baldwin's gun

• Alec Baldwin fires with prop pistol: director of photography shot dead.

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October 23, 2021: There were live bullets in the gun used by Alec Baldwin on the set of 'Rust', where the actor accidentally killed director of photography Halyna Hutchins, but he didn't know it. The US media reported this on the basis of police documents. The gun was handed to the actor by an assistant who told him it was safe to use. Both the assistant and the actor didn't know the ammunition was real. Meanwhile, Rust Movie Productions, the film's production company, has also launched an internal investigation. "Safety is our priority," reads a statement. "While we are not aware of any on-set safety complaints, we would conduct an internal investigation into our procedures.

According to an initial reconstruction by the Santa Fe County sheriff, the assistant director who had provided Baldwin with the gun had passed it to him as a "cold weapon", that is, without bullets. The five-page statement leaves many questions unanswered but makes it clear that it is not just a

The gun control officer on the western movie set was a 20-year-old in her first assignment in that role. This is what emerges from a document, obtained by the BBC, which lists the members of the crew who were expected on the set that day. The assistant director who gave the gun to Baldwin had told the plaintiff that the gun was unloaded, it appears from court documents, and did not know it contained a real bullet. Baldwin was interrogated by law enforcement and his bloodstained stage suit was acquired as evidence along with the gun. At the moment no one is under investigation for the incident, in which director Joel Souza was also injured in the shoulder.

Baldwin said he was "cooperating fully" with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office in New Mexico. "My heart is broken for her husband, their son and for everyone who knew and loved Halyna", the 63-year-old actor, also producer of the film, wrote on Twitter in which he plays an outlaw whose nephew is sentenced to death. hanging for manslaughter. "There are no words to express my shock and sadness at the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and a much admired colleague of ours." Hutchins, 42, of Ukrainian nationality, grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic, studied journalism in Kiev and film in Los Angeles.Two years ago she was called a "rising star" by American Cinematographer magazine. Last year he worked on the set of Adam Egypt Mortimer's 'Archenemy'.

According to the Los Angeles Times, some cameramen had left the set hours before the tragedy after complaining about working conditions.

Union members complained that they had been promised hotel rooms in Santa Fe, near the filming locations, but once filming began, they were asked to drive 50 miles from Albuquerque each morning to get to the set in Bonanza. Creek Ranch.

Incidents of this kind are extremely rare on movie sets, where guns are usually loaded with blanks.

The best known precedent is the death of Brandon Lee.

The 28-year-old son of martial arts star Bruce Lee was hit by a real bullet while filming 'The Crow'.