Alec Baldwin and three other people could be indicted for the shooting on the set of the movie "Rust" in which director of photography Halyna Hutchins was killed last year.
The Santa Fe County prosecutor said in a request for additional funding that would be needed if the prosecutor decides that all the elements are in place to go to a high-profile media trial.
"One of the possible defendants is the famous film actor Alec Baldwin," writes the prosecutor Mary Carmack-Altwies, who specified in the request for funds that her office has not yet determined that it will be necessary to go to the indictments.
She is now expecting the final report of the investigation which "will arrive in a few weeks if not days".
The actor's lawyer, Luke Nikas, stressed: "They told us that it is premature to discuss the case and they must have the space to work without groundless allegations and gossip", specifying that the prosecutor has not yet decided if and who to indict.
The shooting at the center of the investigation took place on 21 October last on the set of the film "Rust", a western of which Baldwin was both the producer and the protagonist.
Hutchins was the victim of a bullet from a prop pistol.
Baldwin has always maintained that the shot was accidental and that he was told the gun was not loaded with ammunition capable of detonating.
Instead, a shot was fired which, in addition to killing the filmmaker, rebounded director Joel Souza.
Baldwin, from the moment of the incident, insisted that he was not responsible for the incident, stating that he did not pull the trigger and did not know there was real ammunition on the set.
Meanwhile, the 64-year-old actor welcomed his seventh child with his wife Hilaria: "My heart has been broken thousands of times in the past year and things in my life may never be the same again," Alec said in a statement. post on Instagram in which, indirectly alluding to the investigation into the shooting, underlines: "in all these months it was my family that kept me alive."