Rust jury proven pictures of cinematographer’ blood-stained shirt
- Prosecutors additionally introduced out the bloody shirt that director Joel Souza was carrying when the bullet that killed Hutchins struck him within the shoulder
- They have tried to painting her as disorganized and unprepared for the job, accusing her of blending reside ammunition with dummy rounds
- Alec Baldwin, who was pointing the gun at Hutchins when it went off, killing her, is individually preventing a cost of involuntary manslaughter
The jury on the trial for Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has been proven stunning photographs of cinematographer’s Halyna Hutchins‘ blood-stained shirt and the bullet that killed her on set.
Gutierrez-Reed, 26, has pleaded not responsible to fees of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with proof within the 2021 demise of Hutchins throughout a rehearsal on a ranch outdoors Santa Fe.
During the second day of her trial on Friday, prosecutors additionally introduced out the bloody shirt that director Joel Souza was carrying when the bullet that killed Hutchins struck him within the shoulder.
The earlier day prosecutors tried to painting her as disorganized and unprepared for the job, accusing her of blending reside ammunition with dummy rounds and doing cocaine the night time earlier than the tragic rehearsal.
Meanwhile the protection says Gutierrez-Reed is to not blame and is being smeared and unfairly scapegoated as they place the blame on Baldwin and the movie’s producers.
Gutierrez-Reed has pleaded not responsible to fees of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with proof within the 2021 demise of Halyna Hutchins
The jury on the trial for Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was proven stunning photographs of cinematographer’s Halyna Hutchins’ the blood-stained shirt on Friday
Prosecutors additionally introduced out the bloody shirt that director Joel Souza was carrying when the bullet that killed Hutchins struck him within the shoulder.
The bullet that killed the cinematographer and struck the movie director is seen above
Actor Alec Baldwin, who was pointing the gun at Hutchins when it went off, killing her and wounding Souza, is individually preventing a cost of involuntary manslaughter. No trial date has been set.
On Friday the jury was additionally proven dozens of pictures of the within of the store owned by Seth Kenney for his firm PDQ Props, which is claimed to have provided the ammunition to the Rust set. The courtroom additionally heard it supplied ammunition to 1888, the Kevin Costner TV sequence.
The pictures have been an try by Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer’s to indicate that Kenney saved his ammunition in a haphazard means. They confirmed dozens of used cardboard packing containers within the alleyway by the store.
Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer Jason Bowles requested Marissa Poppell, a criminal offense scene technician with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s workplace, about one picture which confirmed a pizza field mendacity on the ground.
‘Does it appear to be very disorganized’, Bowles requested. Poppell stated sure.
Bowles requested: ‘‘There’s stuff in every single place, agree with that?’ Poppell stated: ‘Yes’.
The photographs confirmed dozens of packing containers of white ammunition sitting on cabinets in what seemed to be a residential residence. More rounds have been proven in a seize tub on the ground with the lid open.
Baldwin, the lead actor and a co-producer on the Western film Rust, was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (pictured) throughout a rehearsal outdoors Santa Fe in October 2021 when the gun went off, killing her
Kenney has denied that he supplied reside rounds to Gutierrez-Reed.
Gutierrez-Reed’s legal professional Jason Bowles informed jurors on Thursday that his consumer needed to carry out two jobs on Rust whereas being rushed — and that her requests for extra sources went unanswered by her supervisor.
Prosecutors stated they plan to current proof that Gutierrez-Reed unwittingly introduced reside ammunition onto the set, the place it was expressly prohibited, and to indicate ‘how these reside rounds slowly unfold their means all through the set, ultimately touchdown in a number of of the actors’ costumes.’
Jurors have watched police physique digicam movies of the harrowing, chaotic scene after the capturing, with medical personnel treating a wounded and semiconscious Hutchins and loading her into an ambulance as a helicopter arrived.
Gutierrez-Reed had a reside spherical combined with with dummy ones on set, prosecutors informed the jury in her manslaughter trial on Thursday.
They say the armorer missed a number of alternatives to make sure security, ultimately loading a reside spherical into the gun that killed Hutchins and failing twice to correctly examine whether or not bullets within the gun have been reside or dummies.
‘We will present you, girls and gents, that by failing to make these very important security checks, the defendant acted negligently and with out due warning,’ prosecutor Jason Lewis informed jurors. ‘And the choices that she made that day in the end contributed to Ms. Hutchins’ demise.’
Lead protection counsel Jason Bowles countered by pointing to findings by office security regulators of broad issues that prolonged past the armorer’s management. He contended that reside rounds arrived on set from an Albuquerque-based provider of dummy rounds, and that the provider was by no means really investigated.
Gutierrez-Reed, the stepdaughter of famend sharpshooter and weapons advisor Thell Reed, was 24 when the capturing occurred.
An image of the weapon used within the deadly capturing on set was proven in courtroom on Thursday
The gun Baldwin used to shoot Hutchins provided by the armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed (pictured)
Baldwin additionally has pleaded not responsible to an involuntary manslaughter cost in a separate case
Bowles sought to shift blame for security failures away from Gutierrez-Reed, and towards Baldwin and his dealing with of the gun throughout rehearsal.
‘He both had his finger on the set off and the hammer cocked, or he pulled the set off, as he was pointing that at Ms. Hutchins and Mr. Souza,’ Bowles stated. ‘You’re not going to listen to something about her being in that church or firing that weapon. That was Alec Baldwin.’
Baldwin has stated he pulled again the gun’s hammer — not the set off — and the weapon fired.
Gutierrez-Reed faces as much as 18 months and a $5,000 high quality if convicted of involuntary manslaughter. The proof tampering cost stems from accusations that she handed a small bag of doable narcotics to a different crew member after the capturing to keep away from detection.
Her attorneys say that cost is an try to smear her character. The bag was thrown away with out testing the contents, protection attorneys stated.
