‘Additional facts’ have come to light over October 2021 fatal shooting, prosecutors say
Alec Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer – but not the trigger – and the gun fired. Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP PhotoSpecial prosecutors have said they are seeking to recharge actor Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a western film in New Mexico two years ago.
“Additional facts have come to light that we believe show Mr Baldwin has criminal culpability in the death of Halyna Hutchins and the shooting of Joel Souza,” Ms Morrissey and Mr Lewis said in an email.“We believe the appropriate course of action is to permit a panel of New Mexico citizens to determine from here whether Mr Baldwin should be held over for criminal trial.”
They later pivoted and began weighing whether to refile a charge against Baldwin after receiving a new analysis of the gun. The analysis led by Lucien Haag of Forensic Science Services in Arizona stated that although Baldwin repeatedly denies pulling the trigger, “given the tests, findings and observations reported here, the trigger had to be pulled or depressed sufficiently to release the fully cocked or retracted hammer of the evidence revolver”.
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