Hannah Gutierrez, the chief weapons handler for the film Rust, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail within the loss of life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was shot when actor Alec Baldwin was dealing with a gun in the course of the movie’s manufacturing in 2021.
In March, Gutierrez, 27, was discovered responsible of involuntary manslaughter for mistakenly loading a reside spherical right into a revolver Baldwin was utilizing on a Santa Fe, New Mexico, film set.
The capturing, which shocked Hollywood, is believed to be the primary time in trendy occasions {that a} member of a movie crew or solid was killed by a reside spherical by chance loaded right into a gun.
Baldwin’s trial is about for July 10 after a grand jury indicted him on a cost of involuntary manslaughter in January.
Gutierrez, step-daughter of Hollywood gun coach Thell Reed, was sentenced by New Mexico District Courtroom Decide Mary Marlowe Sommer.
Gutierrez’s lawyer Jason Bowles had requested she be given probation however prosecutors argued for a full 18 months as a consequence of lack of contrition.
Prosecutor Kari Morrissey pointed to cellphone calls by Gutierrez from jail by which she stated the jurors had been “idiots,” the choose had been “paid off” and she or he continued accountable Baldwin and others for the capturing.
Gutierrez had already spent a month in Santa Fe county jail following her conviction.
On March 6, a Santa Fe jury took lower than two hours to seek out her responsible.
One juror afterwards stated Gutierrez had not executed her job to make sure weapons security on set.
Hutchins’ loss of life initially prompted US movie and tv productions to cease utilizing actual firearms and clean ammunition.
Two and a half years later, many are utilizing them once more due to the lifelike results they produce, in response to armourers.
Hutchins was fatally shot when Baldwin pointed his gun on the cinematographer and cocked the weapon as she arrange a scene.
Throughout Gutierrez’s three-week trial, prosecutors accused her of unknowingly bringing reside Colt .45 rounds onto the set of the low-budget film, one thing that has been strictly forbidden for practically a century underneath Display screen Actors Guild security tips.
Bowles stated Gutierrez was the scapegoat for a chaotic manufacturing the place she was not given time to test weapons.
He blamed Hutchins’ loss of life on reckless use of firearms by Baldwin and his efforts to hurry and management the filming.
Baldwin was additionally a producer and author on the film.
The 30 Rock actor denies pulling the set off and stated he had been directed to goal it on the digital camera.
However the FBI and an impartial firearms professional discovered the gun wouldn’t fireplace with out the set off depressed.
Movie historians reminiscent of Alan Rode have look to again to the early a part of the final century to seek out examples of Hollywood solid or crew killed by reside rounds by chance loaded into weapons.
Earlier on-set deadly shootings of actors Brandon Lee in 1993 and Jon-Erik Hexum in 1984 concerned clean rounds.