Alec Baldwin formally indicted for ‘manslaughter’ shooting

Black clouds above Alec Baldwin. As anticipated two weeks ago by district attorney of Santa Fe County, the American actor was formally charged with “manslaughter” following the death of Halyna Hutchins, the director of photography accidentally killed in October 2021 from a bullet fired from a prop gun, during the recording of the western movie Rust.

From the American media also emerges the written statement on the probable cause of the accident: for the special investigator Robert Shilling, of the district attorney’s office, Baldwin was allegedly “distracted» during training on how use the gun. According to the document, it appears that she was speaking with his family members on the cell phone, a reconstruction that will be soon examined.

Baldwin will then go in court to defend against it indictment of the armory Hannah Gutierrez Reed, she too now formally indicted. Essentially, Shilling claims that if Baldwin had run security checks mandatory with Gutierrez Reed – and had not pointed the gun against Hutchins (“first rule of gun safety”) – «the tragedy would not have occurred».

It would therefore be a “reckless deviation from known standards, practice and protocol which directly caused the fatal shooting». Meanwhile, the assistant director Dave Hallsmentioned in reports as the person who has delivered the weapon to Baldwin announcing that it was a blank pistol, signed a plea deal for the accusation of “careless use of a lethal weapon.”

“Self one of these three people (Baldwin, Gutierrez Reed and Halls, ed) had done his work», underlined the special prosecutor Andrea Reeb, «today Halyna Hutchins would be alive».

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