‘Rust’ Armorer’s Request For Firearm At Home Granted By Judge After Revealing Threats
24.02.2023 - 22:23
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Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed will be allowed to have a gun at home, a New Mexico judge ruled today.
In the first hearing for the criminal case over the fatal October 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, Judge Mary Marlow Sommer decided that 25-year-old Reed can have “a firearm at her resistance” as a one of the conditions of her release in the case.
The ruling came Friday in the virtual hearing as Reed’s attorney Jason Bowles detailed threats his client had received after private information on her was released by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s office soon after the tragedy on the Rust set. Citing a stalker, and Reed having to get a restraining order at one point, Bowles said his client wanted a gun at home for “self-protection.”
After objecting to the request and citing “Hannah’s sloppy mishandling of firearms” that led in part to Hiutchins’ death, D.A. Mary Carmack-Altwies offered Reed get some “peppery spray or a bat” as an alternative form of protection.
Basically ignoring the suggestions, Judge Sommer granted the request for a gun, but made a point of noting it was only for inside Reed’s residence.
Reed did not enter a plea today.
Additionally, due to the fact that the armorer is not working on the resurrected version of the indie Western, the Judge also ordered that Reed have no contact with other potential witnesses in the case, such as former Rust crew members.
With star/producer Baldwin back and widower Matthew Hutchins as an executive producer, Rust is supposed set to start up again this spring in Montana.
Alec Baldwin was not a participant in today’s relatively short virtual hearing. On February 23, the multi-Emmy winner jumped the process by entering a plea of not guilty and waived his right to