Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed seen in jail mugshot
- Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has been seen in her jail mugshot after being discovered responsible within the taking pictures of Halyna Hutchins
- A jury discovered the 26-year-old responsible on a rely of manslaughter, however acquitted her on a cost of tampering with proof. She faces 18 months behind bars
- Alec Baldwin, who fired the deadly shot, can be tried in the identical courthouse and faces the identical doable sentence if convicted
Rust armorer Hannah Guttierrez-Reed’s mugshot has been launched hours after she was discovered responsible and brought into custody over her half within the taking pictures of a cinematographer killed by Alec Baldwin.
A jury discovered Wednesday that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was negligent in permitting a stay bullet be positioned into the gun that Alec Baldwin used on the set in October 2021. This resulted within the unintended taking pictures dying of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Gutierrez-Reed,26, has now been seen in her mugshot from the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility.
After two hours of deliberations on the courthouse in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a jury discovered Gutierrez-Reed responsible on the manslaughter rely, however acquitted her on a cost of tampering with proof. She has been jailed forward of her sentencing, which may see her resist 18 months behind bars.
As she was walked out to start out her sentence, her mother may very well be seen weeping and placing her head in her fingers.
Gutierrez-Reed,26, has now been seen in her mugshot from the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility
Gutierrez-Reed will serve time contained in the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility, seen right here
Hutchins, 42, a mother-of-one, was shot useless by Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust in October 2021. Baldwin is because of go on trial in July
Gutierrez-Reed was acquitted on a cost of tampering with proof after prosecutors claimed she gave one other individual a bag of cocaine after a police interview to forestall legislation enforcement from acquiring it
Hutchins’ household launched assertion after the decision and stated they ‘look ahead’ to everybody else liable for her dying going through justice – an obvious reference to Baldwin who faces trial for involuntary manslaughter in July.
Baldwin, 65, can be tried in the identical courthouse and faces the identical doable sentence if convicted.
‘Halyna’s dad and mom and her sister have at all times wished everybody who’s liable for Halyna’s dying to be held accountable,’ the household’s legal professionals Gloria Allred and John Carpenter stated.
‘Today was the primary trial and conviction within the legal justice course of. We are happy that the jury, primarily based on the proof, discovered Hannah Gutierrez-Reed responsible past an inexpensive doubt for her half within the taking of Halyna’s life.
‘We sit up for the justice system persevering with to be sure that everybody else who’s liable for Halyna’s dying is required to face the authorized penalties for his or her actions.’
Baldwin was initially charged with involuntary manslaughter however the allegations had been dropped in April final 12 months. He was dramatically charged once more final month and pleaded not responsible.
The taking pictures occurred in October 2021 after two weeks of filming whereas Baldwin was working towards drawing out his gun from the holster.
He opened fireplace on Hutchins, 42, a married mother-of-one whose son was 9 on the time, and the bullet went by means of her and lodged within the shoulder of director Joel Souza, who survived and testified in court docket.
Baldwin is seen right here leaving his house in Manhattan on Thursday morning and can be tried in the identical courthouse as Gutierrez-Reed
She was on trial over the 2021 taking pictures dying of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
Gutierrez-Reed’s mother wept because the choose defined that she can be remanded in custody pending sentencing the place she may very well be given as much as 18 months
Baldwin, 65, who was the lead actor and a producer within the film, will face a separate trial in July for involuntary manslaughter, which he denies
Baldwin was initially charged with involuntary manslaughter however the allegations had been dropped in April final 12 months. He was dramatically charged once more final month and pleaded not responsible
The jury was proven stunning photos of cinematographer’s Halyna Hutchins’ blood-stained shirt
Gutierrez-Reed will serve her time in Santa Fe County Jail the place in line with a report final 12 months by KRQE, over a dozen inmates have died in the previous couple of years.
One of these included Brianna Romero, 20, who died within the facility after her arrest in 2021.
A lawsuit was filed by her household claiming wrongful dying in opposition to the town and the jail, claiming staff failed to watch her and allowed her to die from an overdose, in line with the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Last 12 months the jail introduced they’d be bringing in new expertise to raised monitor the well being of inmates.
While Baldwin was not the defendant on this case at occasions it felt that he was, with one witness stating as a lot out loud.
Across greater than two dozen witnesses, prosecutors painted a damning portrait of a movie that was in a state of ‘rushed chaos.’
The evening earlier than the incident, six members of the digicam crew give up due to their issues over security.
Gutierrez-Reed will serve her time in Santa Fe County Jail the place in line with a report final 12 months by KRQE , over a dozen inmates have died in the previous couple of years
One of these included Brianna Romero, 20, who died within the facility after her arrest in 2021. Her household filed a lawsuit in opposition to the power final 12 months claiming wrongful dying
During her trial, Gutierrez-Reed made notable modifications to her look and swapped colourful hair and a septum piercing for a extra low key look throughout proceedings.
Juror Alberto Sanchez spoke outdoors the court docket after the jury reached the responsible verdict on Wednesday.
He stated: ‘There was plenty of questions of safety that she may have paused or stopped, and he or she simply by no means did.
‘[She] by no means did the security checks, by no means checked the rounds. If you’d carried out that this would not have occurred.
‘After speaking all of it out, [the jury] was satisfied. I believe it was honest. Someone died, we’ve to take accountability.’
Gutierrez-Reed’s protection was accountable everybody however her, however particularly Baldwin.
Her lawyer, Jason Bowles, stated Baldwin was the ‘large boss’ on set that no person stood as much as despite the fact that he rushed folks and ignored security checks as a result of Rust, which he was a producer on, had a good price range.
The jury heard that Baldwin commissioned director Souza to write down the script, which he owned the rights to. Baldwin was the lead actor on the film and was additionally a producer.
Bowles referred to as Gutierrez-Reed, who was simply 24 on the time of the incident, a ‘scapegoat’ for wider failings that led the New Mexico security regulator to concern a $136,000 superb to the producers for ‘willful and critical’ security failings.
The jury had been proven the video of Gutierrez-Reed’s interview by the sheriff Santa Fe, New Mexico, hours after the incident in October 2021
Production of Rust stopped abruptly in October 2021 when a prop gun held by Baldwin fired a stay spherical that killed Hutchins
Bowles advised the court docket that Baldwin himself made the set unsafe by waving his gun like a ‘pointing stick’ at folks.
A behind the scenes video from the filming confirmed Baldwin demanding a second shot instantly after one which simply completed.
He was heard saying: ‘Right away! Right away! Let’s reload. Here we go, come on! We ought to have two weapons, each reloading.’
Asked if that form of conduct was typical, Carpenter stated no, including that it put stress on the armorer to face as much as him.
Moments later, after the director shouted minimize, Baldwin let unfastened one other clean spherical whereas standing subsequent to the 12-year-old actor.
Carpenter stated that when anyone yells minimize, nothing else needs to be fired and that Baldwin ‘went off script.’
Baldwin may have used a Nerf gun within the scene the place he by chance shot Hutchins useless as a result of it was only a rehearsal referred to as blocking, the jury heard.
But Baldwin insisted on utilizing the true weapons, referred to as his ‘hero props’, as a result of he most popular them, identical to he most popular essentially the most highly effective dummies doable as a result of they had been extra sensible.
The new set is pictured in Livingston, Montana. Despite the brand new set additionally having a church constructing, scene 121 – which was the one Baldwin was working towards – has been faraway from the film solely and won’t be reshot
Baldwin was initially charged with involuntary manslaughter however the allegations had been dropped in April final 12 months. He was dramatically charged once more final month and pleaded not responsible
Jurors had been proven a video shot throughout manufacturing of Rust wherein Baldwin pointed the gun on the crew and forged members together with a 12-year-old boy between scenes
Jurors had been advised Baldwin himself made the set unsafe by waving his gun like a ‘pointing stick’ at folks and firing rounds after the director stated minimize
In his opening assertion, Bowles stated that Baldwin ‘violated fundamental gun security’ by pointing the gun at Hutchins as a result of he did not intend to shoot at her.
He stated: ‘The main factor right here was rush, get this factor so we will get the cash and that is all on manufacturing and Mr. Baldwin is among the main producers. That’s on them. Miss Gutierrez-Reed had no management over that.’
During cross-examination of Addiego, Bowles requested: ‘Did you ever stand as much as Mr Baldwin and say we’re not going to maneuver this quick?’
Addiego stated it was ‘not my job’ and he did not recall ‘anyone standing as much as Mr Baldwin on the set of Rust.’
‘He’s working the present, he is the massive boss, proper?’ Bowles stated. ‘He’s primary, so sure,’ Addiego stated.
Perhaps essentially the most damning proof in opposition to Baldwin undercut his declare that he by no means pulled the set off on the gun.
Bryce Ziegler, an agent with the FBI firearms unit who examined the gun Baldwin used, stated he needed to break the gun with a mallet to get it to fireside with out utilizing the set off.
Ziegler stated that could not have occurred on the set of Rust as a result of the gun was in working order when it got here to him.
Speaking to ABC News in December 2021 Baldwin stated: ‘I did not pull the set off. I might by no means level a gun at anybody and pull the set off at them. Never’.
In her police interview, Gutierrez-Reed pointed the finger at Baldwin as nicely and claimed that he was distracted throughout the security briefing she tried to provide him.
She stated that the actor was ‘on his cellphone plenty of that total factor’ and did not concentrate when she was exhibiting him tips on how to use the weapon.
FBI firearms professional Bryce Ziegler gave proof that challenged Alec Baldwin’s model of occasions
Gutierrez-Reed was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and in addition confronted a cost of tampering with proof
Dave Halls, the primary assistant director on Rust, broke down in tears whereas telling the jury how he was the final individual other than Gutierrez-Reed to verify the gun earlier than giving it to Baldwin
A firearms professional confirmed off to the jury a gun just like that Baldwin used to shoot Hutchins
There was highly effective testimony from Dave Halls, the primary assistant director on the movie and the final individual to deal with the gun earlier than giving it to Baldwin.
Before the trial, Halls had pleaded no contest to a cost of negligent use of a lethal weapon and obtained six months probation.
Asked why he did so, Halls stated: ‘I used to be negligent in checking the gun correctly,’
Halls turned emotional as he described what occurred subsequent within the chapel on the set of Rust.
He stated: ‘Mr Baldwin was pulling it (the gun) out, getting used to that motion
‘He was in communication with Miss Hutchins about the place to level the gun.
‘The gun went off.
‘It was so many ideas (in my head). The concept it was a stay spherical of ammunition that went off, it wasn’t computing,’
Hutchins was 3ft away from Halls to his left and he stated to her: ‘Are you all proper,’
In tears, Halls stated that Hutchins replied: ‘I am unable to really feel my legs,’
Addiego additionally broke down in tears whereas being pressed by Bowles on why he was a part of a civil lawsuit in opposition to Baldwin and the Rust producers for negligence.
He stated: ‘I’m hoping for justice, sir. Two folks had been injured on a movie set. That has not solely affected me – it is affected the movie trade.’
The legal case shouldn’t be the one court docket proceedings ensuing from the taking pictures of Hutchins.
In 2022 Baldwin settled a civil lawsuit filed in opposition to him by Matthew Hutchins, the widow of Hutchins, and the daddy of their son.
Under the phrases Rust continued manufacturing at a brand new location in Montana and Matthew Hutchins, who has referred to as his spouse’s dying a ‘horrible accident,’ is an government producer.
No date has but been set for the movie’s launch.
