Attorney for the armorer on the 'Rust' movie set, where Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer, says he believes someone might have been trying to sabotage the set by putting a live round in a box of dummy ammunition. - TODAYShow
said Wednesday that he believes someone might have been trying to sabotage the set by putting a live round in a box of dummy ammunition.
"How did a live round get on set, and who put that live round on the set?" Jason Bowles, an attorney for"Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, asked on NBC's"TODAY" show. "There was a box of dummy rounds labeled 'dummy,'" Bowles said."We don’t know whether the live round came from that box. We’re assuming somebody put the live round in that box."Members of the crew hadthe day before the fatal incident. Bowles said a working theory is that somebody who would"want to sabotage the set, want to prove a point, want to say they're disgruntled, they're unhappy" may have put a live round or live rounds in the box of blanks.
Several other crew members had also walked off the set over safety concerns, including the misfires of the prop gun, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News. Halyna Hutchins, director of photography, died in the on-set shooting, and director Joel Souza was injured.
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