rust The lawyer who represented her throughout the investigation said that the armor maker Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was the victim of “sabotage.”
On Wednesday, lawyer Jason Bowles stated in a statement that “we are convinced that this is sabotage and Hannah is being framed.” Cinematographer Halina Hutchins was shot and killed on the set. “We offered to share additional key information with the Sheriff’s Office and are waiting for their response to the information sharing,” he added.
In the full statement, Bowers said he and Gutierrez-Reid are both waiting FBIThe investigation does “require a thorough and thorough investigation of all facts”, involving the “live round itself, how they got into the “dummy” box, and who put them there.
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Bowers believes that certain aspects of the set were tampered with before the police arrived.
The search warrant affidavit from the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office shows that rust During filming on October 21, assistant director Dave Halls snatched the weapon from a roller car prepared by Gutierrez-Reed and gave it to The star Alec Baldwin (Alec Baldwin) a .45 caliber Colt gun. After Hols picked up the gun, Gutierrez Reid shouted “cold gun” to let Baldwin and Hols know that the weapon was safe on the set.
However, the gun fired by Baldwin did contain live ammunition. Hutchins was shot and killed; director Joel Suza was also injured.
October 28, rust The executive producer tried to clear his misconduct in the tragic shooting.
Allen Cheney said in a statement He and Emily Salveson, co-producer of Streamline Global Finance, “won the honor of executive producer of this film rust Not participating in physical and daily production”, which is consistent with “financing partners for production of all sizes”.
Cheney’s statement was made after IATSE called Baldwin, who was also the producer of the film and the entire production team rust This is because non-union workers were hired after the photography team left before the incident.
Los Angeles City Councillor Paul Koretz told Deadline on October 27 that what happened on the set rust Has changed people’s lives forever, and may leave “permanent damage”.
“Although movies can be convincing and very realistic, they should be fictional,” Koretz said.
“Single gun accidents, let alone deaths, just like what happened in rust The set and the man who killed Brandon Lee and Jon-Eric Hexum [referring to previous shootings on movie and television sets] Not only the lives of the victims and their families, but also the lives of other actors and staff, who are always burdened with the emotional trauma of avoidable accidents,” Koretz said.
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