Alec Baldwin Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting: D.A’s Witness List Full Of Crew Members From Troubled Indie Western As First Court Hearing Looms In Criminal Case
deadline.comFacing two counts of involuntary manslaughter and up to five years behind bars if found guilty, Alec Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed are about to find themselves face-to-face in court with the director of the troubled indie Western and many members of the crew as witnesses in the criminal case against the duo for the October 21, 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Director Joel Souza, who was wounded on set in New Mexico by the bullet that killed Hutchins and whose name is misspelled on the recently filed document, script supervisor Maime Mitchell, armorer mentor Seth Kenney, and prop master Sarah Zachry are among the 44 individuals listed on Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies’ witness list for the upcoming February 24 preliminary hearing (read it here).
With Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed likely to appear virtually, the session before Judge Mary Marlowe Summer will see prosecutors lay out some of their January 31 filed case in an effort to move ahead to a trial.
Both Baldwin and Reed have denied the charges. Long having denied he actually pulled the trigger on the gun that killed Hutchins, Baldwin and his lawyers called the D.A.’s case, which is based on the Sheriff’s office’s November 2022 551-page report, a “terrible miscarriage of justice.” How live rounds ended up on the Rust set is still publicly unknown.
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