this morning, there are new details about the events on the set of the movie rust just hours before actor alec baldwin ended up with a gun that fatally shot the film s cinematographer and wounded the director. we re also learning the assistant director was fired in 2019 after a gun safety incident on another movie set. cnn s lucy kafanov is live from the set. reporter: good morning. a lot of developments coming in here. we know authorities are combing through the evidence. there s no charges that have been filed. this is very much an active investigation. but new details now emerging, both about disturbing lapses or concerns with gun safety measures and the assistant director on previous productions. the producers of rust say they re conducting an internal investigation of security measures. production of the movie rust
according to the wrap, crew members used prop guns with live ammunition for target practice, a past time called plinking, just hours before cinematographer halyna hutchins was killed. their report says one of the guns was handed to alec baldwin that fired the shot that killed hutchins and injured the film s director. we have new reporting about the assistant director on the movie, dave halls. he was fired from a movie set in 2019 after a crew member was injured in another gun safety incident. he is the one who according to police reports handed the weapon to alec baldwin. and joining us now to discuss this, corporate media reporter at the los angeles times meg james. meg, this is incredibly, incredibly disconcerting, this possibility that live rounds were not only on the set, but they were these guns were being used for target practice.
baldwin s hands ended up fatally shooting the cinematographer and wound being the director. this is what the founder we learned today and reported exclusively that the gun that alec baldwin used to tragically, accidentally shoot haylna hutchins had been used earlier in the day with target practice. there s a lot of down time on sets. you probably know this. there is this pastime that crew members flin plinking. they shoot at beer cans. this is live ammunitions. this is the day that haylna hutchins was killed. we have new information about dave hols, the assistant director. he was fired in 2019 after a crew member was injured in another gun safety incident. production of rust is on hold