tweeted this. quote, there are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of helena hutchins, a wife and mother and deeply admired colleague of ours. i m fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and i m in touch with her husband and offering my support to him and his family, my heart is broken for her husband, their son and all who knew and loved helena. step stephanie elum is covering the development and you have breaking news from the local prosecutor in new mexico. what is happening. because we have not heard anything about whether or not charges would be filed. we know the investigation is very much open. and that they continue to talk to witnesses there in the sante fe area. but the new statement from new mexico first judicial district attorney said it is unclear if charges will be filed but said we will look into all facts with great discretion and have further information at a l
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Charges will be filed but said we will look into all facts with great discretion and have further information at a later time. our fothoughts are with all effected by it tragedy. at this point we re starting to hear more from people who knew hutchins and knew her work and saw she was a rising star as many have referred to her to be. including the agency that represented her, they put out a statement on social media saying, quoting all those in her orbit knew what was coming, a star director, of photography a force to be reckoned with. all of us at innovative artist are heartbroken. we mourn for her family and hope to reveal new lessons to better unsure safety for every crew member on set. which is a big topic of discussion. and you could see people who were there on the set are starting to remember her. if you look at francis fisher, an actor in an multitude of
Happens where there is no intent to cause harm or intent to kill the person and the question of reasonableness comes up. whether there were appropriate actions taken, steps taken to prevent this kind of unforeseen event. and you mentioned that safety meeting, the tweet from someone on that crew who tweeted out that safety meeting. so a lot of questions are going to be asked by the sheriffs of what was said in the safety meeting and what kind of information was provided. we heard steve talk about what was inside of this gun. was it a blank or something more deadly than a blank. so i think there are a lot of questions to be asked before we get to charges. we know the john landis case, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter. that was a helicopter accident and in brandon lee there were not any charges when he was accidentally killed by a bullet on set. so we have two prior cases that we would look to, two very
Different outcomes but a lot of questions about who knew what about what was in the gun and the safety training provided to alec baldwin. steve, you reported the investigative team in the brandon lee killing. whose fault is this and is there something similar from that experience that will inform this horrible case? several things. was there live ammo in the gun? was the gun supposed to be pointed at anybody? was alec properly trained? and told don t point this at anyone or your going to kill them and he did that. well then i would say there is some criminal liability there. but benefit of the doubt that he didn t intend that, then the responsibility would lie with the prop coordinator or the armor who was on set who would is supposed to make sure that nothing could come out of the gun that will hurt anybody. with the brandon lee thing, was that a blank or live ammo? what happened. that was a combination. so sometimes you want to see