The family of Halyna Hutchins, who was shot and killed on the New Mexico set of the film in October, is suing the actor and the movie's producers for wrongful death, attorneys say.
The suit declares that Baldwin and the other producers"failed to perform industry standard safety checks and follow basic gun safety rules while using real guns to produce the movie Rust, with fatal consequences."Hutchins was behind the camera, prepping for a scene in the Western film at the Bonanza Creek Ranch outside of Santa Fe. The lawsuit says Baldwin, who was the lead actor, pointed a gun at Hutchins during the rehearsal.
But the wrongful death complaint argues,"Halyna Hutchins deserved to live, and the Defendants had the power to prevent her death if they had only held sacrosanct their duty to protect the safety of every individual on a set where firearms were present instead of cutting corners on safety procedures where human lives were at stake, rushing to stay on schedule and ignoring numerous complaints of safety violations.
The Santa Fe Sheriff's Department continues its probe of the incident, but New Mexico investigators have talked about"some complacency" in how weapons were handled on the
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