:quality(80)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/lanacionar/24DUIKVW6FBJFLLTOIIHBD7TTQ.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "New video: Alec Baldwin’s reaction when they confirm that the director of photography had died")
After the police revealed a series of images taken by an officer’s body camera, showing the moment the officers arrive at the film set of “Rust” After actor Alec Baldwin’s fatal shot at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who finally died, the video was released in which the actor is informed of the tragic outcome of the accident.
The video, which is just over a minute long, was shared by NBC reporter Mike Sington, and Baldwin can be seen with two officers in a small office where they inform him of Hutchins’ death.
“I have some unfortunate news to tell you”one of the officers who works in the police tells the actor who asks what it was about and the woman adds: “He did not survive.”
“No!” Was the actor’s reaction. bringing one of his hands to his mouth.
“Yes… He did not survive,” the woman reiterated, adding: “I’m sorry. I didn’t want you to find out outside of here. I’m sorry. Is there anything we can do for you?”
Before finishing the brief filming, the Santa Fe Police officer asks Baldwin if he wants his wife, Hilaria, to accompany him.
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In Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office imagespublished in the last hours, doctors, officers and other people from the film’s production are seen, while they attend to Hutchins and film director Joel Souza before being removed on stretchers and loaded into an ambulance.
Hutchins, 42, died on set last October when the revolver Baldwin was holding fired a live bullet that struck her in the chest and then lodged in Souza’s shoulder. The filmmaker survived the gunshot wound.
Las footage also shows a police officer talking to Baldwin, still dressed for his movie character, who immediately admits that he was holding the gun. “I was the one holding the gun,” he said.
Later, the actor is heard talking to other members of the production: “She gave me an empty weapon… everything was ready, the headphones, everything…”.
The weapon that killed Hutchins was under the control of gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, and an assistant director handed it to Baldwin, assuring him that it was unloaded. Several months after the fatal crash, police released footage of an initial conversation with Hannah Gutierrez.
The footage, without sound, also shows Baldwin dressed as a gunslinger from the old west and showing the dynamics of the shootout with what appears to be the gun that went off in his hand, killing Halyna.
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The office of the ‘sheriff’ of Santa Fe (capital of New Mexico) also released some images in which Baldwin is seen sitting in a church pewduring the same day of filming that Hutchins died, and immediately takes the gun out of his jacket, points it at the camera and repeats the action a second time.
Nevertheless, the actor has maintained in his testimonies that he never pulled the trigger until the moment of recording the fateful scene.
The material that now the office of the ‘sheriff’ has spread consists of videos of rehearsals on the recording set, text messages or witness interviews with investigators.
Among them, the director of the film, Joel Souza, which can be seen in a video in the emergency room, telling an investigator that the gunsmith on the set had said “the gun was clean.”
According to Office of the Prosecutor of the First Judicial District of Santa Fe, the investigation is still open and they are waiting for new reports from the sheriff’s office to review the evidence and make a decision on the criminal charge.
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On April 20, the New Mexico Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the production company of “Rust” more than $135,000 for failing to observe security measures during filming.
“Several components of the investigation remain pending, including FBI firearms and ballistic forensic analyzes along with DNA and latent fingerprint analysis, (forensic) findings, and analysis of data from Mr. Alec Baldwin’s phone extracted by Suffolk County Sheriff’s investigators,” Santa Fe County Sheriff Adam Mendoza said.
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