not to speak with a criminal defense attorney. the reason is he was not simply an act around the set, he was also one of the producers. new mexico does have involuntary manslaughter crime on the books for people who show a lack of caution or concern in carrying out a task that leads to death. this is certainly an egregious violation of any protocols that we know of for the handling of prop guns. this has happened before, actors have been killed by a prop guns, most famous being randomly, it is certainly the case that witnesses recall the assistant director saying cold gun meaning the gun was not loaded so there may have been no reason for baldwin to assume the gun might have had a live round, but this type of negligent homicide or
we see more facts come out like stephanie just reported, there is more and more questions. why was there an operable firearm on set and how did live ammunition get in there and we ve seen firearm experts here on air explaining over the last several days why that was so out of the ordinary and so dangerous and i think those are the questions that prosecutors are going to ask. it was interesting to read this portion of the affidavit. during the millm of the movie, the assistant directar grabbed one of three prop guns set up by the armorer which was on a cart and left outside of the structure due to covid-19 restrictions. one of the prop guns was then handed by the assistant director and he took it to the actor, identified as alec baldwin who was inside of the structure. as he handed the gun to the actor, alec baldwin, he yelled, quote, cold gun , the assistant
just last month. take a listen to gutierrez in her own words. i was really nervous about it at first and i almost didn t take the job because i wasn t sure if i was ready. but doing it, it went really smoothly. reporter: so that is her talking about her first time being head armorer. we know there were three prop guns on a cart that the assistant director david halls pulled from and yelled cold gun when handing that prop to alec baldwin. so there are questions and some of the people working on the film questioned whether or not she was ready to be the head armorer on this project. so many questions about her but also some concerns about halls as well, alisyn. that is the movie assistant dire director and we have heard from former colleagues who he s the person who has told baldwin that the gun was safe, basically said cold gun before handing it
investigators there was no video or audio being recorded at that time. an affidavit saying that the gun was one of three prop guns set up by the armorer hannah gutierrez-reed. and that assistant director dave halls, grabbed the gun off a cart outside the church, then handed it to baldwin on set, yelling cold gun, indicating to everyone there that the prop gun did not have any live rounds, which the a.d. told investigators he believed to be true. industry safety standards ban live ammunition from movie sets. souza telling investigators protocol onset was for reed to inspect the gun and then halls before he would hand it over to the actor. that chain of command is usually the first a.d. and the armorer and the actor, and that s usually the people that interact with that gun. but the first a.d. won t be touching the gun, they won t be picking the gun up off of a cart. reporter: as armorer, 24-year-old gutierrez-reed was responsible for all weapons on set. six weeks ago on a podcast
anyone should be able to tell that. people saying shot with a prop gun. it was not a prop gun. it was a real gun. prop guns can not emit live ammunition. there s a physical blockage in there that prevents you from putting it in there. if you can t put live ammo with bullets into a prop gun, it was not a prop gun, it was a real gun, a real gun like this, there s your cylinders, live ammo goes right in. so if somebody was shot with this, it was from a real gun. that means we had a real unmodified gun that we should stop calling a prop gun and we had live ammunition with a bullet on it. so not a blank. blanks are potentially lethal. they have killed people before at close range from the pressure of the muzzle blast coming out.