“She was my friend” – Alec Baldwin comments on fatal shot

After the tragic death of camerawoman Halyna Hutchins, actor Alec Baldwin makes his first public statement.

Manchester / New York – After the fatal shot at camerawoman Halyna Hutchins (42) while filming, Hollywood star Alec Baldwin * made public statements for the first time. The gun master, who is in focus, also spoke up. This is reported by the German Press Agency on Sunday (October 31, 2021).

“She was my friend. The day I got to Santa Fe to start filming, I took her out to dinner with Joel, the director, ”said Baldwin of the victim to roadside paparazzi in Vermont on Saturday. This can be heard in a video that, according to the German press agency, was first published by the gossip site TMZ.

After fatal shot at camerawoman in the USA: weapon master rejects allegations

The incident occurred during the filming of the low-budget western “Rust” on a film ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 21. Baldwin had starred and produced the film that day. He had fired a prop weapon during a rehearsal for a shooting scene. The chief camerawoman Halyna Hutchins was met, who died shortly afterwards of the consequences. The director Joel Souza (48) was injured in the shoulder. Investigations revealed that there was a real bullet in the Colt. An assistant director later admitted errors *. He did not strictly follow the safety precautions and only incompletely checked the weapon.

The main focus of the investigation was the gun master. However, she denies the allegations of negligence on the set. She had “no idea” where the live ammunition found there came from, the 24-year-old told her lawyers in a letter from which several US media quoted on Friday (local time).

Sheriff on handling weapons: “There was a certain carelessness on the set”

The local sheriff Adan Mendoza had said with regard to the handling of weapons: “I think there was a certain carelessness on this set.” “The entire set became unsafe due to various factors, including a lack of safety briefing,” the broadcaster NBC News and the Los Angeles Times quoted from the letter. This was not the gunsmith’s fault, the lawyers said.

The 24-year-old was hired for two different tasks, which is why it was extremely difficult for her to concentrate on her work as an armorer. In vain did she spend more time training the actors, maintaining the guns and preparing shooting scenes. The young woman herself was “devastated” because of the death of the camerawoman and was completely beside herself, it was said. Sheriff Mendoza told NBC News that the gunsmith’s statement was of little help: “It raises more questions than it gives answers.”

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Gun restriction campaign in the US: Alec Baldwin speaks out after fatal shot

“There are random accidents on film sets from time to time, but nothing like that,” Baldwin said, according to Agence France-Presse. The probability of such an accident is “one in a trillion”. He is “very interested” in the ongoing campaign in the USA * for a restriction of weapons on film sets.

However, he was not allowed to comment on the investigation. Nor did he want to comment on whether he would ever make another film with guns. The production of “Rust”, which was canceled immediately after the accident, will not resume, said Baldwin. A few days ago he met the widower and the son of the killed camerawoman *. (Anna Charlotte Groos with dpa) * fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

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