“A longtime marriage, a soulmate is lost, and a boy to be raised without a mother at a young age is a tremendous loss,” he said. The complaint does not cite a dollar amount, but Panish said it would be considerable. “Alec had the gun in his hand, he shot it, Halyna was killed.” “I think it’s clear what happened,” he said. Panish said Tuesday that the assertion was unrealistic. “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. “I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin said. In an interview with ABC, Baldwin said Hutchins had asked him to point the gun just off camera and toward her armpit before it went off. He has said previously that he was sure his company did not send any live rounds to the set. An attorney for Kenney could not be found. Her attorney Jason Bowles did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new lawsuit. Several crew members have filed lawsuits, including Gutierrez Reed, who blamed Kenney for the shooting. Sounds good.”īaldwin said he does not believe he will be criminally charged in the shooting. Walters responds: “Accidental discharge on the firearm? Awesome. The operator, Lane Luper, texted unit production manager Katherine Walters saying: “We’ve now had 3 accidental discharges. The suit filed in New Mexico’s Santa Fe County in the name of Matthew and Andros Hutchins shows a text message exchange between a camera operator and a producer in which a complaint over gun safety was met with what the suit calls “callous sarcasm.” The family of a cinematographer shot and killed on the set of the film “Rust” sued Alec Baldwin and the movie’s producers Tuesday alleging their “callous” disregard in the face of safety complaints led directly to her death.Īt a news conference announcing the lawsuit, attorneys for the husband and 9-year-old son of Halyna Hutchins said that Baldwin refused training for the type of “cross-draw” he was performing when he fired the shot that killed her.īaldwin’s attorney responded that any claim the actor was reckless is “entirely false.” Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Baldwin and other producers were sued by Hutchins’ family for wrongful death.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Rust Movie Productions was issued a maximum fine, though the producers later filed a challenge to the group’s decision, saying it was not equipped to judge the safety of a film set. Baldwin’s lawyer said it cleared his name because it showed Baldwin believed the weapon in his hand was safe to use. Two months ago, a New Mexico workplace safety organization said the conditions on the set of the movie and the disregard for weapons safety led to the shooting. Baldwin claimed in a December interview that it was very unlikely he would be charged. The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department said in April that the investigation into the shooting was still ongoing and that no one was “off the hook” for criminal charges yet. Authorities are investigating how live ammunition was able to get onto the set and into the gun, and why the crew wasn’t able to catch it before it fired. In October, a gun in Baldwin’s hand, which he believed was safe to use, fired during a rehearsal and killed Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza. No one has been charged in relation to the shooting.
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