![]() ![]() ![]() They were locked up every night and at lunch and there’s no way a single one of them was unaccounted for or being shot by crew members.” “Hannah and the prop master gained control over the guns and she never witnessed anyone shoot live rounds with these guns and nor would she permit that. “Ultimately this set would never have been compromised if live ammo were not introduced,” Gutierrez Reed’s statement reads. Those production managers had also expressed concerns about Gutierrez Reed, who had only worked on one film as an armorers before Rust. There had also been conflicts between production managers and the camera crew, resulting in a set that was reportedly chaotic. Her father was also a longtime armorer, working on films such as 3:10 to Yuma. There had reportedly been concerns about Gutierrez Reed’s inexperience since the first day on set, according to the L.A. Gutierrez Reed said that she had no idea where the live rounds came from, via a statement provided by her lawyer, Jason Bowles. But Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said that 500 rounds of ammunition were recovered from the set, including blanks, live rounds, and dummy rounds. Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the prop person in charge of weapons, told authorities that no live ammunition is ever kept on set. “The biggest thing is I don’t really see any real protocols, period,” veteran prop gun expert and film armorer Mike Tristano said. The Rust crew appears to have violated multiple basic firearm safety protocols, according to Hollywood veterans, including the directive that a performer is never supposed to aim a weapon at another person. Halls is not a member of the Directors Guild of America, Deadline reported. Dummy rounds are normally visually differentiated from live rounds via a small hole or indent, as well as making a signature rattling indicating there’s a BB rather than gunpowder inside the round, according to the L.A. He also couldn’t remember whether the gun’s barrel was spun to check if other chambers had a round in them. He said that he should have checked all of the gun’s chambers, but didn’t. Halls admitted that he didn’t fully check the gun before handing it to Baldwin, according to a search warrant. He’s responsible for what happens on the set.” ![]() In the 911 call, script supervisor Mamie Mitchell said in an apparent reference to assistant director Halls, “He’s supposed to check the guns. Crew shortages meant the production didn’t start on time the morning of the shooting. The camera department was only able to use one camera that day, which caused further delays. The crew had taken some of their personal equipment as well. Pickle also had a previous labor violation, according to the Hollywood Reporter, firing members of a 2018 film for trying to unionize and calling the police on them.įour replacement camera operators were brought on to the Rust set, including three who were non-union. When they weren’t packing up fast enough, line producer Gabrielle Pickle threatened to call the police on them. Hutchins had previously given up a day’s rental of a crane in order to add to the budget for lodging the camera crew, but with the issue still unresolved, she came to set the day of the shooting to find her crew packing up, according to the L.A. They allegedly hadn’t been paid and weren’t being housed near the set. The Rust production was behind schedule, according to Souza.Ī member of the Rust camera department, Reid Russell, told investigators that he had “much work to complete” because six members of Hutchins' crew had just quit the film that morning. ![]() However, blanks can still emit hot gases, as well as paper or plastic wadding, which can be lethal from short range, according to the Associated Press. It was thought to be loaded with blanks, which are gunpowder charges that produce a flash and a bang, but without a projectile coming out of the gun’s barrel. He yelled “cold gun” as he handed it to Baldwin, indicating it didn’t contain live ammunition. Baldwin was handed the gun by assistant director Dave Halls, who reportedly didn’t know it was loaded with live rounds. ![]()
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