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the frantic efforts to save halyna hutchins in the moments after she was shot. it was during rehearsals on a ranch in new mexico when the shootings and deaths depicted on the 19th century western they were filming became all too real. are you doing 0k? no, i m not, actually. 0k. alec baldwin was holding the gun that discharged the bullet that killed her. he was also one of the film s producers. am i being charged with something? prosecutors now say he will be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. in a statement, the actor s lawyer said: i m the armour. or at least i was. hannah gutierrez reed, who was in charge of weapons on set, faces at the same charges. her lawyers say they are a result of a flawed investigation. how many people were in the room at time? the assistant director, david halls, who is reported to have told baldwin the gun was safe, has agreed to pleaded guilty to negligent use of a deadly weapon. in a statement, the prosecutor for the stat ....
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Who is a firearms expert with extensive experience working on film productions as a weapons handler. i began by asking him what the basic safety protocols were when using firearms on set. well, in any firearm handling multiple direction and triggerfinger, however, on a movie set, you re going to be pointing and you re going to have your finger on the trigger. so, first and foremost, absolutely no live ammunition on the set, and we treat blanks as live ammunition, so you can have blanks. and in some movie productions rather than cgi we use blanks, but an extreme amount of care must be used for those, but in this case, we know that actual live ammunition was used. and baldwin s lawyers, they have called the charge a miscarriage ofjustice, saying that he relied on professionals who assured him that the gun did not have any live rounds. what are your thoughts and, in your opinion, who is ultimately responsible for the safety of guns on sets? well, that s a great question ....
As a producer. why do i say that? well, they are saying that alec baldwin departed from the standard of care. he was in charge or had the responsibility to make sure that film set was safe and particularly so that the firearms on set were being maintained safe as his role as a producer. sort of overseeing the production on that set. the harder of those charges is the charge related to alec baldwin s being an actor. he was an actor and he should have known or should have checked whether that gun was loaded before he pulled the trigger. of course, we know alec baldwin is denying that he pulled that trigger, but that s going to be the harder of those two charges for prosecutors. ....
He was holding the gun that fired the shot that killed halyna and severely injured directorjoel souza. we believe that we have in our possession the firearm that was fired by mr baldwin. the actual lead projectile that was fired has been recovered from the shoulder of mr souza. we regard this specific casing and recovered projectile to be the live round that was fired from the revolver by mr baldwin. when alec baldwin was handed the weapon by assistant director dave halls, he was told it was safe, what s called a cold gun. the person responsible for firearms on set was the armourer 24 year old hannah gutierrez reed. she s admitted ammunition was not secure, but says she checked the guns and found no live rounds. all three are cooperating fully with the investigation. all options are on the table at this point. i m not commenting on charges, whether they will be filed or not, or on whom. so, the answer is, we cannot answer that question ....