Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is maintaining her innocence in the shooting, alleging there have been “untruths” around the incident
Rust was being filmed on Bonanza Creek Ranch in New Mexico. Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images In the week since a fatal shooting on the set of the film Rust, scrutiny has centered around the film’s armorer, whose role is to oversee weapons on a production. Now, in her first statement, Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is maintaining her innocence in the shooting, alleging there have been “untruths” around the incident.
Last week, Rust star Alec Baldwin fired a gun on set that was thought to be “cold,” or not have live rounds in it, which killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza. Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyers told Vulture in a statement she “has no idea where the live rounds came from” in the gun. “Ultimately this set would never have been compromised if live ammo were not introduced,” her lawyers, Jason Bowles and Robert Gorence, said.
The statement echoed a previous affidavit from the Santa Fe County sheriff’s office, in which Alexandria Hancock, a detective, cited an interview with Gutierrez-Reed. In the October 27 document for a warrant to search the prop truck where guns and ammo were stored, Hancock said Gutierrez-Reed told her she assured the guns were loaded with “dummy,” not “hot,” rounds and that she returned the guns to the truck during the lunch break before the shooting occurred.
Gutierrez-Reed’s statement additionally responded to previous reports that there had been multiple misfires on the set ahead of the shooting, chalking those up to the prop master, Sarah Zachry, and a stunt worker, whom Gutierrez-Reed says she told the gun was loaded with blanks. “Hannah still, to this day, has never had an accidental discharge,” her lawyers claimed.
Gutierrez-Reed is just the latest involved with Rust to set her story straight following the October 21 shooting. Two executive producers made a statement on October 27, per Deadline, that they had “no involvement with the physical and day-to-day production.” Meanwhile, Baldwin has been retweeting news stories indicating he was told the gun was not live, including one story reporting Halls’s claim that he did not check all the rounds in the gun.
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