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Alec Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will face criminal charges for the October 2021 fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film’s set, the Santa Fe District Attorney said Thursday. Close to 16 months after Baldwin shot Hutchins and wounded the movie’s director Joel So…

A New Mexico judge has ordered that the First Assistant Director at the heart of the fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins can no longer avoid sitting down with the state investigators. District Court Judge Bryan Biedscheid on Friday granted the state’s Environment Department request…

UPDATED with statement from Hannah Gutierrez-Reed) Santa Fe police may be a step closer to discovering where the live round fired last month by Alec Baldwin that killed Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins came from. In a fourth search warrant approved by a New Mexico judge, detectives on Tuesday revealed that armorer…

As New Mexico police continue their investigation into the October 21 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust, the first of what is expected to be many lawsuits has been filed. Seeking a wide range of unspecified damages, Rust gaffer Serge Svetnoy has filed a complaint of…

Santa Fe County District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, appeared on Good Morning America on Wednesday, pushed back on the possibility that the Oct. 21 shooting incident on the Alec Baldwin set of Rust could be an act of sabotage. “I know that some defense attorneys have come up with conspiracy theories and have used…

Having already this past weekend called the Rust production "well-oiled" despite weapons discharges and crew resignations before the October 21 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, Alec Baldwin is now advocating that claims of "unsafe, chaotic conditions are bullsh*t." Interviewed by the Santa Fe…

The Rust First Assistant Director who admitted he didn't properly check the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last month is now calling on the film industry to make sure "no one is harmed through the creative process again." Speaking publicly for the first time since the fatal shooting by star-producer Al…

Lawyering up with a former Assistant U.S. Attorney after being called out in public by Santa Fe's sheriff, the Rust armorer at the center of the tragic accident that saw cinematographer Halyna Hutchins fatally shot has spoken out for the first time. Disputing tales of after-hours target practice with weapons used for…

EXCLUSIVE: A week after the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin on the New Mexico set of Rust, two crew members at the center of the police probe have hired a pair of the state’s top criminal defense lawyers. Veteran First Assistant Director David Halls has retained Albuquerque attorney…

The fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin last week on the Santa Fe set of Rust wasn't the first time First Assistant Director David Halls worked on a film where a weapon discharged unexpectedly. Back in late 2019, a gun went off on the Arkansas set of Freedom's Path, where Halls was an AD…