‘Rust’ Armourer Attorneys Blame Producers For ‘Unsafe’ Set

complaint in Los Angeles County superior court on Wednesday, according to Deadline. The suit seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial, saying that he’s suffered “severe emotional distress” as a direct result of the incident.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe gaffer on “Rust” felt a whoosh of air and heard the loudest shot he had ever heard on set, and then watched helplessly as his friend Halyna Hutchins faded away in his arms, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.Serge Svetnoy provided a detailed, first-hand account of the Oct. 21 shooting in a negligence suit against several defendants, including “Rust” star Alec Baldwin, the film’s producers, the armorer and first assistant director.

The key gaffer on the set of “Rust” has filed a lawsuit against star and producer Alec Baldwin, as well as armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and assistant director Dave Halls, among others, over the accidental shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last month.

Alec Baldwin has stated that police officers should be employed on all film and TV sets that utilize guns.

source told Fox News.Last month, Baldwin accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza with a weapon he thought was a “cold gun.”Images taken before the shooting and obtained by Fox show Gutierrez-Reed and two other women standing in a circle with a pair of Old West rifles and a revolver, with the barrel of one weapon laying against the abdomen of one woman and the other using her hip to prop up a gun.“People didn’t know the rules,” a source told

New allegations are being made regarding the tragic shooting that took place on the set of Rust.

Suspicions are high in the aftermath of the shooting on the set of “Rust”.

The attorneys for the armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who is being investigated by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s department, in addition to the pic’s Assistant Director David Halls in the wake of DP Halyna Hutchins’ death from a prop gun discharged by Alec Baldwin, told the Today show this morning that they’re looking into whether a live bullet was placed in a box of dummy rounds with the intent of  “sabotaging the set.”

The armorer on the set of "Rust" offered a chilling theory through her attorneys about what led to the accidental shooting death of Halyna Hutchins.  Armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed was one of four people who handled the weapon prior to Alec Baldwin firing it while rehearsing a scene for the indie-western.

In the aftermath of the shocking accident on the set of the film Rust, in which a prop gun being used by Alec Baldwin fired a very real bullet that struck and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, there has been a lot of finger pointing.

Attorneys for Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who was in charge of weapons on the movie set where Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, say she doesn’t know where the live rounds found there came from, and blamed producers for unsafe working conditions.

A major player in the Rust tragedy is finally speaking out.

Hannah Gutierrez Reed spoke out to deny certain rumors about the on-set shooting involving Alec Baldwin that left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead. Gutierrez Reed, the armorer on the set of "Rust" who was responsible for the safety and handling of firearms on the set, is currently a main focus of the investigation into the death of Hutchins, according to Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza.

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Authorities recovered guns, ammunition and more from the set of "Rust" while investigating a deadly shooting that occurred during a rehearsal for the film, according to a warrant obtained by Fox News. Last Thursday, actor Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a scene for the western-genre film on the New Mexico set when he discharged a firearm, resulting in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

The floodgates have opened for insider info on the tragic Rust shooting.

The father of Halyna Hutchins has spoken out for the first time after the cinematographer was accidentally shot dead by Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust.

Gallery: From the red carpet to living on the streets! The stars died penniless and in debt (BANG Showbiz)He said: "The little boy has been very badly affected — he is lost without his mother. "Matt will decide if legal action is going to be taken.

The father of Halyna Hutchins has spoken out for the first time since the tragic death of his 42-year-old cinematographer daughter.

Halyna Hutchins‘ father Anatoly Androsovych has spoken out after the tragic death of his 42-year-old daughter. In his first statement, he made it clear he does not blame Alec Baldwin, 63, who discharged the prop fun that took Halyna’s life.