Sat 23 October 2021:
According to media reports, an assistant director of the “Rust” western movie told actor Alec Baldwin that his prop gun had no live rounds before the fatal shooting on the set.
According to The New York Times, the assistant director said in an affidavit that he “did not know live rounds were in the prop-gun.”
The assistant director said “Cold Gun!” before handing the prop gun to Baldwin, according to the affidavit, indicating that the gun was safe.
On late Thursday, Baldwin fired a pistol that was supposed to be loaded with blank cartridges. The film director received a shooting injury but survived, while 42-year-old camera operator Halyna Hutchins succumbed to her injury after she was airlifted to a hospital in Albuquerque.
Baldwin said in a statement on Friday that he was fully cooperating with law enforcement’s investigation into the incident.
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