“I think there was some complacency on this set, and there are some safety issues that need to be addressed by the industry and possibly the state of New Mexico,” he added. Mendoza encouraged people who can report similar incidents to call the sheriff’s office, and Carmack-Altwies said that what authorities find “will play into our legal analysis, and whether charges get filed or not.”Īsked about safety, Mendoza said “the industry has had a record recently of being safe.”
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Halls was fired from the 2019 movie Freedom’s Path after an accidental gun discharge, the production company behind that movie told CNN Tuesday.Īnd crew members from a Nicholas Cage movie that wrapped in August told the Wrap this week that Guttierez-Reed was the subject of numerous complaints, and that the veteran actor Cage once stormed off set after she fired a weapon without warning, saying, “Make an announcement: you just blew my fucking eardrums out.” “All they wanted to do was rush, rush, rush.”Ĭrew members who’ve worked with Halls and Guttierez-Reed in the past have also shared details of disturbing incidents. There was no assurance that it wouldn’t happen again,” one crew member told the Times.
Three crew members told the LA Times that there had been multiple prop gun discharges during production, including one where Baldwin’s stunt double accidentally fired two rounds. Just hours before the shooting, six camera operators walked off the film’s set, the Los Angeles Times reported. In the days since Hutchins’ tragic death, more disturbing details have come out about the incident and about the treatment of the crew on set. “No one has been ruled out at this point.” Of Baldwin, Mendoza said: “He’s obviously the person who fired the weapon… right now he is an active part of this investigation.” “All options are on the table,” Carmack-Altwies said. “It was an antique-era appropriate gun.”īoth Mendoza and Carmack-Altwies said it was too early in the investigation to determine whether criminal charges will be filed. “It was a legit gun,” she told the Times. Though the gun Baldwin fired has been described as a “prop gun,” First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, whose jurisdiction includes Santa Fe County, told the New York Times Tuesday that was not an accurate description. “Because they shouldn’t have been there.” “We’re going to determine how got there, and why they got there,” Mendoza said. They also recovered clothing and approximately 500 rounds of ammunition, which included a mix of blank, dummy, and, authorities suspect, additional live rounds. 45, which needs to go through testing before its functionality is determined. Baldwin also shot and injured Souza. In addition to the gun that fired the live round, Mendoza said authorities had recovered two other guns, including a nonfunctioning plastic revolver and another. Baldwin, 63, shot and killed Hutchins, the 42-year-old director of photography on the film, on October 22 while the movie, a Western set in the 1880s, was in production in rural Santa Fe County.
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