Attorneys have suggested that live ammunition may have been planted in Alec Baldwin’s gun by someone who wanted to sabotage the production.
Following the deadly on-set shooting in Santa Fe, several Rust crew members, including the 63-year-old veteran actor who pointed and fired the gun, have come under scrutiny over the accidental killing of photography director Halyna Hutchins.
One of the people involved in the incident is 24-year-old armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed whose attorney insisted that she took her job very seriously and made sure to convey gun safety rules to other crew members.
Involved in the case is also the western movie’s assistant director Dave Halls who handed the gun in question to Baldwin and told him it was “cold” as in free of ammunition.
Now, however, two attorneys have suggested there might be more to this story as they implied that someone might have planted one live bullet in the gun on purpose to sabotage the production.
Speaking on Good Morning America, Gutierrez Reed’s attorney, former federal prosecutor Jason Bowles, clearly suggested that a third party might have “intended to sabotage” the film’s production by sneaking live ammunition on set and planting it in the gun used by Baldwin.
“We know the live rounds shouldn’t have been in that box, but they were. So there can be very, very few explanations for why live rounds end up in a box of dummy prop ammunition on a movie set,” Bowles said.
“And one of them is that somebody wants that to go into a firearm and then wants there to be an incident on the set. There’s no other reason to mix a live round with the dummies. There’s just none.”
On the following day, Bowles doubled down on his suspicions saying: “Never in a million years did Hannah think that live rounds could have been in the ‘dummy’ round box. Who put those in there and why is the central question.”
Running to the armorer’s defense was also Gutierrez Reed’s other lawyer, Robert Gorence, who told The New York Times that the armorer placed socks over guns loaded with dummy rounds before going for lunch even though the 24-year-old told the police that the gun in question was locked in a safe during her lunch break.
“Was there a duty to safeguard them 24/7? The answer is no, because there were no live rounds,” Gorence said.
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