Alec Baldwin Gun That Killed Halyna Hutchins “Destroyed By The State,” Hearing On ‘Rust’ Fatal Shooting Reveals; Minitrial Set For Early May Start
deadline.comThe gun that killed Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021 has been “destroyed,” a lawyer for Alec Baldwin revealed today.
Treated as almost an aside in a virtual hearing Thursday in the criminal case, attorney Alex Spiro told Judge Mary Marlow Sommer that the defense team had recently learned the 1880s prop gun that fatally shot Hutchins and wounded Rust director Joel Souza is basically no more. “The court, I don’t think is aware of this point, but I think I should tell the court that the firearm in this case, that’s a great subject of it, was destroyed by the state,” the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan lawyer said. “So, that’s obviously an issue and we’re going to need to see that firearm, or what’s left of it,” Spiro added with withering understatement.
Neither Judge Sommer, nor Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies responded to Spiro’s statement about the gun. With assertions from his lawyer that absent Baldwin “wanted his day in court,” the brisk session moved on to setting dates for future hearings.
Baldwin’s defense team, the D.A.’s office and the attorney for co-defendant and ex-Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed did not respond to request for comment from Deadline on Spiro’s statement.
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