Investigators found 500 rounds of ammunition - a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and what appeared to be live rounds, even though the set’s firearms specialist, armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, said there should never have been real ammo present. 21 shooting on the set of the movie “Rust,” accounts and images released in court documents, interviews and social media postings have portrayed much of what happened during the tragedy, but they have yet to answer the key question: how live ammunition wound up in a real gun being used as a movie prop, despite precautions that should have prevented it.ĭuring a news conference Wednesday, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said there was “some complacency” in how weapons were handled on the set.
Responders flew Hutchins in a helicopter to a hospital, to no avail.Ī week after the Oct. Lighting specialist Serge Svetnoy said he held her as she was dying, her blood on his hands. Souza saw that she was bloodied, and that he was bleeding too: The lead from Baldwin’s gun had pierced Hutchins and embedded in his shoulder.Ī medic began trying to save Hutchins as people streamed out of the building and called 911. Suddenly Hutchins was complaining about her stomach, grabbing her midsection and stumbling backward, saying she couldn’t feel her legs.
What happened when Alec Baldwin’s gun fired on set of 'Rust'
