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Baldwin shooting: assistant director admits didn't fully check gun
The man who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer admitted he didn't fully check it, documents revealed Wednesday.
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Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza, with District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies (R), speaks to the press on October 27, 2021, about the criminal investigation regarding the fatal shooting and wounding of crew members on the set of the movie 'Rust,' in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (AFP/Nick Layman)
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he man who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer admitted he didn't fully check it, documents revealed Wednesday, as the sheriff investigating the fatal shooting spoke of "complacency" on the US movie set.
Halyna Hutchins died after Baldwin shot her with the Colt .45 he was pointing at a camera for low-budget western Rust being filmed in New Mexico.
The live round passed through her torso and struck director Joel Souza in the shoulder.
Assistant director Dave Halls told detectives he remembers seeing ammunition in the period weapon before he handed it to Baldwin. Moviemakers sometimes use inert, or dummy, bullets in props.
"He advised he should have checked all of them, but didn't, and couldn't recall if (armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed) spun the drum" to show him what was inside the gun, an affidavit says.
Halls handed Baldwin the weapon using the phrase "cold gun" -- industry lingo for an inert firearm.
An investigation into last Thursday's fatal shooting has recovered 500 rounds of ammunition from the set, Sheriff Adan Mendoza told reporters, adding that detectives believe they were a mix of blanks, dummies and live rounds.
