“The trigger wasn’t pulled…I didn’t pull the trigger. » In his first formal interview since the drama of october 21the entirety of which is to be broadcast on the evening of Thursday December 2 by the American channel ABC, actor Alec Baldwin claims not to have pressed the trigger of the revolver he had in his hand when the director of photography Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on the set of Rusta western of which he is also one of the producers.
During this interview with “Good Morning America” co-host George Stephanopoulos, Alec Baldwin adds that he doesn’t ” no idea “ of how live ammunition could have gotten onto the film set, resulting in the accidental death of Halyna Hutchins. “I would never point a gun at someone while pulling the trigger. Never “he shouts.
In this excerpt, Alec Baldwin does not give any further details to explain how the revolver could have gone off and fired the fatal bullet. The actor was working on a scene where his character draws a gun when the cinematographer was hit.
The weapon in question was supposed to contain only dummy bullets. When asked how real ammunition could have been in the barrel of the revolver, Alec Baldwin replied: ” I’ve no idea. Someone put a live bullet in a gun. A bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be there. »
More than 500 munitions seized on set
The police investigation continues and, if no arrests have been made, criminal proceedings are not excluded in the event that responsibilities are established, underlined the services of the prosecutor of Santa Fe, in the State of New Mexico. According to a document released by Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department Hannah Gutierrez-Reed on Tuesday, the film’s gunwoman told officers she loaded five dummy rounds into the gun just before lunch break.
On resumption, she had extracted the weapon from the safe where she had placed it and added a sixth cartridge, then handing the revolver to another employee of the shooting. Shortly after, she says she heard a detonation coming from the set. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed told investigators she didn’t “not really much checked” the weapon because it had been locked up during lunch. She had previously claimed to be unaware of the presence of any real ammunition on the set.
Police seized more than 500 pieces of ammunition from the shooting, said to be a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and some suspected real ammunition. The investigators also reported possible leads that could explain the presence of this live ammunition, formally prohibited on filming by the rules in force in the cinema industry in the United States. One of the ammunition suppliers used on the set of Rust, Seth Kenneysaid he potentially sold the film crew homemade ammunition — possibly from recycled parts — that had a logo that matches the one on the lethal canister.