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re: Police Obtain Search Warrant For Alec Baldwins' Phone
Alec Baldwin Armourer and Assistant Director Who Handed Over Fatal Gun Pictured
The armourer and assistant director told Alec Baldwin that the gun was loaded with blanks before a cinematographer was killed at the hands of the actor
The crew members who gave Alec Baldwin a fatal prop gun have been identified.
Daily Mirror 23 OCT 2021.
Halyna Hutchins was tragically killed on set (Image: Halyna Hutchins/Instagram)
Armourer and assistant director who were involved in Alec Baldwin's accident
Armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who has been identified on the set's call sheet, set three prop guns on a cart outside the filming location, and assistant director Dave Halls grabbed the revolver from the cart and brought it inside to Baldwin, mistakenly believing it was unloaded, a search warrant revealed.
Halls stated that the gun was 'cold, meaning that it was safe to fire for the scene, before handing it to Baldwin.
Seconds later, Baldwin aimed towards the camera and pulled the trigger, killing Hutchins who was filming him and injuring director Joel Souza, who was standing behind her.
Halls is a seasoned assistant director, having amassed production credits on a number of films involving prop guns, including Fargo, The Matrix Reloaded, and the TV cop series Reno 911.
In 2000, Halls was the second unit's first assistant director on the show The Crow: Salvation, the sequel to the film in which Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee was killed in an on-set firearms mishap in 1993.
Neither Halls nor Gutierrez Reed have been charged or named as criminal suspects in the case, though a police investigation is ongoing.
Baldwin, who is the star and producer of the film, has also been questioned by police, and stated that he was "fully co-operating" with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.
Baldwin took to Twitter to share his devastation over the incident.
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