The Santa Fe, New Mexico, District Attorney's Office filed involuntary manslaughter charges against 'Rust' star Alec Baldwin and armorer Hanna Gutierrez-Reed.
Prosecutors in Santa Fe, New Mexico, had taken nearly a year and a half to investigate the death, andHutchins died when a prop gun inexplicably loaded with a real bullet discharged as Baldwin pointed it at the camera, where Hutchins was seated, during a rehearsal on the"The District Attorney and the special prosecutor are fully focused on securing justice for Halyna Hutchins," First Judicial District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Heather Brewer said in a statement.
Involuntary manslaughter is a charge brought when unintentional negligence results in the death of an individual. In this case, one of the two charges determines whether there was underlying negligence, and the other requires that there was more than simple negligence in Hutchins' death. The statement says photos and videos of the rehearsal, taken moments before the deadly shooting, showed Baldwin with his finger inside the trigger guard and on the trigger while “manipulating” the pistol's hammer, and an FBI analysis shows the pistol could not have been fired without pressing the trigger.
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