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Film crew voiced complaints before Alec Baldwin's fatal on-set shooting
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set with a gun a crew member had assured the actor was safe, a tragic mistake that came hours after some workers walked off the job to protest conditions and production issues.An assistant director, Dave Halls, grabbed a prop gun off a cart at a desert movie ranch and handed it to Baldwin during a Thursday rehearsal for the Western film "Rust," according to court records made public Friday."Cold gun," Halls yelled, declaring the weapon didn’t carry live rounds and was ready to fire. But it wasn't. When Baldwin pulled the trigger, he unwittingly killed 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and maimed director Joel Souza, who was standing behind her inside a wooden, chapel-like building. A 911 call that alerted authorities to the shooting at the Bonanza Creek Ranch outside Santa Fe hints at the panic on the movie set, as detailed in a recording released by the Santa Fe County Regional Emergency Communications Center. "We had two people accidentally shot on a move set by a prop gun, we need help immediately," script supervisor Mamie Mitchell told an emergency dispatcher. "We were rehearsing and it went off, and I ran out, we all ran out." The dispatcher asked if the gun was loaded with a real bullet. "I cannot tell you. We have two injuries," Mitchell replied. "And this (expletive) AD (assistant director) that yelled at me at lunch, asking about revisions....He’s supposed to check the guns. He's responsible for what happens on the set." Halls did not immediately return phone and email messages seeking comment. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named was unable to contact Hannah Gutierrez, the film's armorer, and several messages sent to production companies affiliated with "Rust" did not receive responses Friday. The gun Baldwin used was one of three that Gutierrez had set on a cart outside the building where a scene was being rehearsed, according to the court records. Halls grabbed the firearm from the cart and brought it inside to the actor, unaware that it was loaded with live rounds, a detective wrote in a search warrant application. It was unclear how many rounds were fired. Gutierrez removed a shell casing from the gun after the shooting, and she turned the weapon over to police when they arrived, the court records say. Guns used in making movies are sometimes real weapons that can fire either bullets or blanks, which are gunpowder charges that produce a flash and a bang but no dangerous projectile. Related: Alec Baldwin: 2021-02-11 Democrat Who Said Conservatives are Terrorists at Sham Impeachment Hearing Took Pedo Bucks From Jeffrey Epstein Alec Baldwin: 2020-12-28 Alec Baldwin speaks out after wife Hilaria's heritage and Spanish accent is questioned Alec Baldwin: 2020-10-24 Ireland Baldwin poses topless on Instagram to get out the vote Posted by: Fred 2021-10-24 |
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