Injured director recalls moment Alec Baldwin's prop gun fatally shot Halyna Hutchins

Today” host Savannah Guthrie that Gutierrez-Reed loaded the gun that killed Halyna Hutchins from a box labeled “dummy rounds” and that she inspected the rounds. They said what remains unknown is how a live round wound up in a “dummy” box, and they suggested that the round could have come from someone on the production who was unhappy.

The assistant director to Alec Baldwin on the movie Rust has spoken out after the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on set. Halyna was killed after being accidentally shot by Alec with the gun David Halls handed to him during production, injuring director Joel Souza also.

Alec Baldwindischarged a prop gun on the film's set that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza.«Halyna Hutchins was not just one of the most talented people I’ve worked with, but also a friend,» Halls told. «I’m shocked and saddened by her death.

Alec Baldwin has been criticised after his wife Hilaria shared Instagram snaps of their family celebrating Halloween, just days after he shot dead Halyna Hutchins on the Rust movie set.

Alec Baldwin, 63, and his wife Hilaria Baldwin, 37, have spoken on camera for the first time since the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his film Rust — see the full video here. The A-lister addressed the media on October 30 in Manchester, Vermont, where he and his family have been staying since the tragic incident in New Mexico. “It’s an active investigation in terms of a woman died, she was my friend,” Alec told reporters.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza and District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies held a press conference on Oct. 27 to offer new insight into the fatal shooting on the set of Alec Baldwin’s movie, Rust.

 A number of crew members had taken prop guns from the New Mexico set of the indie Western — including the gun that killed Hutchins — to go “plinking,” a hobby in which people shoot at beer cans with live ammunition to pass the time, the insider said. The shooting happened just a few hours later, when lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin discharged a revolver after first assistant director David Halls confirmed that it was a “cold gun,” meaning that the gun did not have any live ammunition in

The prop gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a New Mexico movie set had been used by crew members offsite for fun, a new report claims. The gun, which was fired by Alec Baldwin on the set of the movie "Rust," may have even been loaded with live rounds when it was used for what was essentially target practice, TMZ reported.

Alec Baldwin met with the husband and son of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the woman who was killed during an accidental discharge of a prop gun on the set of the movie "Rust."  Hutchins, the director of photography on the picture, was killed in the incident and director Joel Souza was injured and later released from a hospital.The shooting occurred when Baldwin pulled the trigger on a gun that he was told was unloaded, according to a search warrant filed in a Santa Fe court.  Over the

Joel Souza has spoken out for the first time since he was injured on-set of the movie Rust, after an accidental shooting proved fatal for his cinematographer colleague, Halyna Hutchins.The director, 48, was hospitalised on Thursday following the horrific incident, which saw Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin, 63, fire a prop gun which was loaded with live ammunition. Baldwin's accidental shooting tragically killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchings, a 42 year old mum of one and doting wife.

Rust director Joel Souza, who was injured and hospitalized from a gunshot wound on the set of Alec Baldwin’s Rust has issued a statement to Deadline in the wake of the tragic event which took the film’s cinematographer’s life, Halyna Hutchins.

SANTA FE, N.M. – A "Rust" actor said Friday he wished "precautions" had been taken on set that could’ve prevented Alec Baldwin’s tragic misfiring of a prop gun that left the film’s cinematographer dead.

fired the prop weapon on the set of the film Rust, which resulted in the death of Hutchins, 42, and injuries to director Joel Souza, 48, on Thursday (October 21), authorities say.The actor subsequently shared a statement on social media, expressing his “shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother, and deeply admired colleague of ours”.He added: “I’m fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I