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Serge Svetnoy said in the lawsuit that the bullet that killed his close friend Hutchins almost missed him, and he held her head when she died.
“They should never broadcast live on this set,” Svetnoy’s lawyer Gary A. Dordick said at a news conference on Wednesday.
In the lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Superior Court, there are nearly twenty defendants related to the film, including Baldwin, who is both a star and a producer; handed the gun to Baldwin’s associate director, David Hols; Han Hannah Gutierrez Reed (Hannah Gutierrez Reed) is responsible for the weapons on the set.
This is the first known lawsuit triggered by the October 21 shooting, which also hurt the director of “The Rust” Joel Suza.
This is the ninth film in which Svetnoy and Hutchins worked together. He accepted the job with a low salary because she asked him to do so.
“She is my friend,” Svetnoy said at the press conference.
He said he saw the gun unattended during the shooting a few days ago and warned the relevant personnel.
The lawsuit alleges that on the day of the shooting, he was setting up lighting within 6 or 7 feet (2 meters) of Baldwin.
“What happens next will always haunt the plaintiff,” the lawsuit said. “He felt a strange and terrible hiss, it felt like pressurized air coming from his right. He felt that he thought it was gunpowder and other residual materials that had hit his right face directly.”
The lawsuit stated that then, his glasses were scratched and his hearing was blurred, and he knelt down to help Hutchins.
The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, which will be determined later. It was filed in Los Angeles County because the plaintiff and most of the defendants were there.
The defendant’s lawyers and representatives did not immediately respond to email and phone messages seeking comment on the lawsuit.
Gutierrez Reid’s lawyer, Jason Bowles, said in a statement on Wednesday, “We are convinced that this is sabotage and Hannah is being framed. We believe that the scene was tampered with before the police arrived. “
Bowers said that his client has provided a complete interview with the authorities and continues to help them. The statement did not involve litigation.
The statement said: “We require a thorough investigation of all facts, including the live broadcast itself, how they entered the’dummy’ box, and who put them there.
Gutierrez Reid said last week that she had checked the gun fired by Baldwin, but did not know how a live ammunition got inside.
Mary Carmack-Alteves, the district attorney for the Santa Fe area, said investigators found no evidence of sabotage. Her comments were originally published on Good Morning America and were confirmed by agency spokesperson Sasha Jean Anderson on Wednesday.
Carmack-Altwies said that investigators know who loaded the gun, but it is still unclear how the deadly ammunition entered the filming location. The district attorney said she was worried about so many levels of security failures.
Dodick said at a press conference that it is “far-fetched” to imply sabotage, but Gutierrez Reid still has the same responsibility to know what’s in the gun and who handled it.
The authorities said that the deputy director Hols handed the weapon to Baldwin and declared a “cold gun”, indicating that the weapon can be used safely.
Hols said last week that he hopes the tragedy will prompt the film industry to “re-evaluate its values and practices” to ensure that no one is harmed again, but did not provide details.
Baldwin said in a video on October 30 that the shooting was a “one in a trillion incident.” He said: “We are a very, very hard worker. We shot a movie together, and then it happened. This terrible incident.”
According to court records in New Mexico, director Suza told detectives that Baldwin was rehearsing a scene. He took a revolver from the holster and pointed it at the camera. Hutchins and Suza were behind the camera.
According to court records, Suza said that no live ammunition was required at the scene, and Gutierrez Reid said that real ammunition should not appear.
The Los Angeles lawsuit stated that the scene did not ask Baldwin to shoot at all, but pointed at it.
Hollywood professionals are puzzled by the filming environment. It has already led other production teams to strengthen safety measures.
Associated Press writers Morgan Lee and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Associated Press film writer Jack Coyle contributed in Los Angeles.
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