The affidavit arrives just two weeks after the first lawsuit was filed in connection with the fatal shooting of Hutchins on the Rust set. “After several attempts to get it back from Seth, Seth advised Thell to ‘write it off.’ Thell stated this ammunition may match the ammunition found on the set of ‘Rust,’” the search warrant said.
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15 that he supplied Kenney with the ammunition on a separate movie set and that Kenney had never returned the ammunition. The warrant also mentions Gutierrez-Reed’s father, Thell Reed, who’s a longtime Hollywood armorer. On the set of The Old Way, shot in Montana over the summer, actor Nicolas Cage yelled at the armorer after she failed to announce the usage of a weapon for the second time in three days though a producer on the film later denied that the incident happened. “We had the gun the whole time before that, and nothing happened, and I wasn’t in there, and they weren’t even supposed to be pulling the hammer back,” she told investigators.Įarlier this month, it was reported that Gutierrez-Reed had received a number of complaints on different film sets prior to the Rust incident. Guiterrez-Reed told deputies she recalled loading the gun with five dummy rounds on the day of the shooting. The affidavit also includes new details from interviews with armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who is currently under investigation for her handling of firearms on the set of Rust. “Seth described the ammunition stuck out to him due to the suspected live round to have (sic) a cartridge with the Starline Brass logo on it… He described how the company only sells components of ammunition, and not live ammunition, and therefore it had to be a reloaded round.” “Seth described how a couple years back, he received ‘reloaded ammunition’ from a friend,’” the investigators wrote in the search warrant affidavit. More than a month after the fatal shooting accident on the set of Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun which killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souz, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate how live rounds made their way to the film’s set.Īccording to an affidavit released on Tuesday, Seth Kenney, the weapons expert who supplied guns for the movie, told investigators he had an idea how the live ammunition ended up on set. Next week a 20/20 episode on ABC will spend two hours looking into the Rust shooting. Because I think back, and I think of, ‘What could I have done?’” Pressed about if this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to him, the 63-year-old answers, “Yes. … Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property.” I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them, never. Speaking on the prop gun with live ammunition going off, Baldwin reveals, “Well, the trigger wasn’t pulled, I didn’t pull the trigger.” Asked for clarification, he replies, “No, no, no, no.
Of 42-year-old Hutchins’ tragic death, he says, “I mean, even now I find it hard to believe that. “She was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with and liked by everyone who worked with, and admired,” Baldwin says in the clip above, overcome with emotion. ET: A raw Alec Baldwin interview about the death of Halyna Hutchins will air on Thursday evening on ABC, and a preview of the conversation with George Stephanopoulos has been shared.
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