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Alec Baldwin: “He rehearsed with his guns pointing at the camera where Alina Hutchins and Joel Souza were”

New documents that have come to light from the office of the Santa Fe Sheriff in New Mexico, again put the protagonist of the film Rust, Alec Baldwin, responsible for the tragic death of the director of photography, Alina Hutchins and the director Joel Souza. The father of the 42-year-old filmmaker, however, stated that he does not consider the actor responsible for the tragedy.

New testimonies indicate that the actor was practicing a movement while sitting on a church bench, pointing with his fatal weapon at the camera where the filmmaker was..

Two new witness statements, released by the authorities, describe the shocking moments before and after the shooting of 42-year-old Hutchins inside the church building in the set of the movie “Rust”.

Baldwin rehearsed pulling the gun out of its holster, as they do in western movies, from a fake church bench at Bonanza Creek Ranch as he marked the camera, while Hutchins and 48-year-old director Joel Souza were behind it. .

Souza then says that he heard a “loud pop”. Souza told investigators he remembered hearing the phrase “cold weapon” as he prepared for the scene. But Souza said technicians had gone for lunch and were not sure if the gun had been checked.

Souza was looking over Hutchins’s shoulder, behind the camera, when they were shot.

Alec Baldwin: “He rehearsed with his guns pointing at the camera where Alina Hutchins and Joel Souza were”

Another witness, cameraman Reid Russell, gave an additional picture of the moments that led to the horrific tragedy. He said that during the preparation, there was a shadow coming from the outside light and so they were forced to move the camera at a different angle from Baldwin.

«Alec was trying to explain how he was going to pull the gun and where his hand would be when the gun came out of the holster.“, According to the testimony. Reed was unsure why the gun eventually fired and remembered the loud bang.

Souza was looking over Hutchins’s shoulder when Thursday’s tragedy unfolded. The shrapnel from what is described in the documents as a “revolver” hit Hutchins in the stomach and Souza in the shoulder.

The scene of the accident in Alec Baldwin's film, Rust

Hutchins told people from the nearby crew that she “could not feel her legs”. Souza told authorities that Hutchins stumbled back while complaining of pain before being helped to fall to the ground.

Production on the film has been halted amid an investigation into filming, and a “completely devastated” Baldwin is reportedly getting permission from his other works.

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