“I’m pretty confident neither one of them should ever work in a film set again,” he said. “I hired a private investigator,” he said.īased on what his private investigator has reported back to him, Baldwin said he does not believe he will be criminally charged.īaldwin said he believes that Gutierrez Reed and Halls wouldn’t be criminally charged, either. While waiting for Santa Fe County prosecutors to announce the results of their investigation, Baldwin says he took matters into his own hands. Over the last 10 months, Baldwin says he has replayed the events that led up to the fatal shooting.
“It would be a huge miscarriage of justice. “When Alec Baldwin showed up that tragic day for filming, he had not a single reason in the world to think that there was a live bullet in that gun, in that church, or even on that property,” Nikas told CNN in a subsequent interview on Thursday. Luke Nikas, an attorney for the actor told CNN on Sunday the FBI report “is being misconstrued.” The report noted the gun eventually malfunctioned during FBI testing after internal parts fractured, which caused the gun to go off in the cocked position without pulling the trigger. A newly released FBI forensics report says the weapon could not be fired during FBI testing of its normal functioning without pulling the trigger while the gun was cocked. People need to look at the evidence.”īaldwin has repeatedly said that he pulled back the gun’s hammer as far as he could without cocking the gun and released the hammer - but did not pull the trigger. People are only pointing the finger at Halls because they don’t want the responsibility of being wrong. “Baldwin is pointing the finger at others because the evidence is pointing at him,” said Lisa Torraco. In a statement, Halls’ attorney said Baldwin is trying to shift blame away from himself. It is not for him to decide or to apportion blame,” Bowles added. Baldwin’s attempts to deflect blame onto others.
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To date they have not done so on this vital question, which must be answered to uncover the full truth of what happened.”ĬNN has reached out to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office for comment. “We have again asked that the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office and FBI test the live rounds for fingerprints and DNA to confirm where the live rounds came from. Baldwin and believe that Seth Kenney as primary ammunition supplier commingled live rounds with blank rounds in the ammunition provided to Rust,” Jason Bowles, attorney for Gutierrez Reed said in a statement to CNN. Kenney’s attorneys filed an answer last month, denying any allegations and asking the court to dismiss the case. In the suit, Gutierrez Reed alleges Kenney sold her a cache of dummy ammunition with live rounds mixed in. and its founder Seth Kenney of violation of trade practices, false and deceptive product labels, and false and material misrepresentations. In January, Gutierrez Reed sued the movie’s gun and ammunition supplier, accusing PDQ Arm and Prop, LLC. Most of those consistent with live cartridges were not found on the set. An FBI report released last week showed investigators examined dozens of cartridges, including from the set and from a separate location in Albuquerque. “Why did he give me the gun? Why didn’t he check? Why did he tell the crew ?”īaldwin also wondered aloud whether Seth Kenney, the movie’s props supplier, accidentally provided live bullets to the “Rust” set. “Why didn’t check that bullet? Why didn’t Halls obey her?” Baldwin continued. Baldwin arrived.” Instead, the complaint says, Halls handed the revolver directly to Baldwin. The complaint goes on to say that the armorer left the church “expecting Mr. I don’t want that, but I want everybody to know that those are the two people that are responsible for what happened.”Īccording to an administrative complaint filed this month by the New Mexico environment department’s occupational health and safety bureau against the production company, Gutierrez Reed told Halls to alert her when Baldwin arrived, so she could perform a safety check on his firearm. “I’m not sitting there saying I want them to, you know, go to prison, or I want their lives to be hell. “There are two people who didn’t do what they were supposed to do,” he added. Her job was to look at the ammunition and put in the dummy round or the blank round, and there wasn’t supposed to be any live rounds on the set. “Someone put a live bullet in the gun who should have known better,” Baldwin said.
Through their respective attorneys, both Gutierrez Reed and Halls accused Baldwin of deflecting blame onto others. In his interview with CNN, Baldwin placed responsibility for the tragedy on Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who served as the armorer and props assistant on the film, and assistant director Dave Halls, who handed him the gun.