Will the death of Halyna Hutchins result in criminal charges — and if so, who will stand trial? ABC News reported overnight that the local DA told media that criminal charges are still “on the table” as the investigation unfolds. At the moment, the focus of the media has fallen on the assistant director who handed off the firearm to Alec Baldwin, but that’s likely not where any negligence ends:
Criminal charges are “on the table” in last week’s prop gun misfire incident on the set of “Rust” that left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead and director Joel Souza hospitalized, a local district attorney said.
“We haven’t ruled out anything. Everything at this point, including criminal charges, is on the table,” Santa Fe First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack Altwies told ABC News Tuesday regarding the shooting on the New Mexico set. …
Crew members on the film’s New Mexico set had previously raised safety concerns, ABC News has learned.
Gun safety concerns had been “brushed off” by the film’s producers, a camera crew member told ABC News after the incident.
CNBC had more on the reasons why the clear negligence on the set might cross over from civil to criminal, and why Baldwin might end up being on the hook as producer. Not only did AD Dave Halls have a record of sloppy handling of firearms, one prop master turned down the job on Rust for cost-cutting in firearm safety, at least when he was negotiating the conditions for joining the production.
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