The jury on the trial for Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has been proven surprising pictures of cinematographer’s Halyna Hutchins‘ blood-stained shirt and the bullet that killed her on set.
Gutierrez-Reed, 26, has pleaded not responsible to fees of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with proof within the 2021 loss of life of Hutchins throughout a rehearsal on a ranch exterior Santa Fe.
In the course of the second day of her trial on Friday, prosecutors additionally introduced out the bloody shirt that director Joel Souza was sporting when the bullet that killed Hutchins struck him within the shoulder.
The day past prosecutors tried to painting her as disorganized and unprepared for the job, accusing her of blending dwell ammunition with dummy rounds and doing cocaine the night time earlier than the tragic rehearsal.
In the meantime the protection says Gutierrez-Reed is to not blame and is being smeared and unfairly scapegoated as they place the blame on Baldwin and the movie’s producers.
Gutierrez-Reed has pleaded not responsible to fees of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with proof within the 2021 loss of life of Halyna Hutchins
The jury on the trial for Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was proven surprising pictures of cinematographer’s Halyna Hutchins’ the blood-stained shirt on Friday
Prosecutors additionally introduced out the bloody shirt that director Joel Souza was sporting when the bullet that killed Hutchins struck him within the shoulder.
The bullet that killed the cinematographer and struck the movie director is seen above
Baldwin, the lead actor and a co-producer on the Western film Rust, was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (pictured) throughout a rehearsal exterior Santa Fe in October 2021 when the gun went off, killing her
Actor Alec Baldwin, who was pointing the gun at Hutchins when it went off, killing her and wounding Souza, is individually preventing a cost of involuntary manslaughter. No trial date has been set.
On Friday the jury was additionally proven dozens of pictures of the within of the store owned by Seth Kenney for his firm PDQ Props, which is claimed to have equipped the ammunition to the Rust set. The court docket additionally heard it supplied ammunition to 1888, the Kevin Costner TV sequence.
The pictures had been an try by Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer’s to point out that Kenney saved his ammunition in a haphazard approach. They confirmed dozens of used cardboard containers within the alleyway by the store.
Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer Jason Bowles requested Marissa Poppell, against the law scene technician with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s workplace, about one picture which confirmed a pizza field mendacity on the ground.
‘Does it look like very disorganized’, Bowles requested. Poppell mentioned sure.
Bowles requested: ‘‘There’s stuff in all places, agree with that?’ Poppell mentioned: ‘Sure’.
The photographs confirmed dozens of containers of white ammunition sitting on cabinets in what seemed to be a residential condo. Extra rounds had been proven in a seize tub on the ground with the lid open.
Gutierrez-Reed had a dwell spherical blended with with dummy ones on set, prosecutors advised the jury in her manslaughter trial on Thursday
On Friday the jury was additionally proven dozens of pictures of the within of the store owned by Seth Kenney for his firm PDQ Props
The pictures had been an try by Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer’s to point out that Kenney saved his ammunition in a haphazard approach
In textual content messages proven to the court docket, Gutierrez-Reed mentioned she was getting excessive to a buddy the night time earlier than the deadly capturing
Kenney has denied that he supplied dwell rounds to Gutierrez-Reed.
In textual content messages proven to the court docket, Gutierrez-Reed mentioned she was getting excessive to a buddy the night time earlier than the deadly capturing.
The jury had been proven texts she despatched one other individual on October twentieth 2021 wherein she mentioned: ‘LOL. I don’t want that tonight in any case. I’d go smoke within the jacuzzi quickly. I’m so pooped’.
The messages didn’t specify what she was smoking.
She later despatched one other message to the opposite individual saying she was ‘headed all the way down to get excessive out again’.
The jury had been proven different messages Gutierrez-Reed despatched to a different contact known as ‘Dadclua’ on November eighth 2021, after the capturing.
She wrote: ‘Hey I want you to verify you to take a look at my containers and ship me footage of our containers of dummies.’
The contact known as ‘Dadcula’ replied: ‘Will do’ and despatched a picture of an ammunition field.
It appeared that ‘Dadcula’ was Thell Reed, the famend movie armorer who’s Gutierrez-Reed’s stepfather and mentor nevertheless it was not clear.
In one other message dated December 1st 2020, the identical individual messaged Gutierrez-Reed and her lawyer: ‘Get somebody to point out her a single motion gun and the way it works. They do not go off by themselves’.
Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer Jason Bowles advised jurors on Thursday that his consumer needed to carry out two jobs on Rust whereas being rushed — and that her requests for extra sources went unanswered by her supervisor.
An image of the weapon used within the deadly capturing on set was proven in court docket on Thursday
The gun Baldwin used to shoot Hutchins equipped by the armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed (pictured)
Prosecutors mentioned they plan to current proof that Gutierrez-Reed unwittingly introduced dwell ammunition onto the set, the place it was expressly prohibited, and to point out ‘how these dwell rounds slowly unfold their approach all through the set, ultimately touchdown in a number of of the actors’ costumes.’
Jurors have watched police physique digicam movies of the harrowing, chaotic scene after the capturing, with medical personnel treating a wounded and semiconscious Hutchins and loading her into an ambulance as a helicopter arrived.
They are saying the armorer missed a number of alternatives to make sure security, ultimately loading a dwell spherical into the gun that killed Hutchins and failing twice to correctly verify whether or not bullets within the gun had been dwell or dummies.
‘We’ll present you, women and gents, that by failing to make these important security checks, the defendant acted negligently and with out due warning,’ prosecutor Jason Lewis advised jurors. ‘And the selections that she made that day in the end contributed to Ms. Hutchins’ loss of life.’
Lead protection counsel Jason Bowles countered by pointing to findings by office security regulators of broad issues that prolonged past the armorer’s management. He contended that dwell rounds arrived on set from an Albuquerque-based provider of dummy rounds, and that the provider was by no means really investigated.
Baldwin additionally has pleaded not responsible to an involuntary manslaughter cost in a separate case
Gutierrez-Reed, the stepdaughter of famend sharpshooter and weapons advisor Thell Reed, was 24 when the capturing occurred.
Bowles sought to shift blame for security failures away from Gutierrez-Reed, and towards Baldwin and his dealing with of the gun throughout rehearsal.
‘He both had his finger on the set off and the hammer cocked, or he pulled the set off, as he was pointing that at Ms. Hutchins and Mr. Souza,’ Bowles mentioned. ‘You’re not going to listen to something about her being in that church or firing that weapon. That was Alec Baldwin.’
Baldwin has mentioned he pulled again the gun’s hammer — not the set off — and the weapon fired.
Gutierrez-Reed faces as much as 18 months and a $5,000 tremendous if convicted of involuntary manslaughter. The proof tampering cost stems from accusations that she handed a small bag of potential narcotics to a different crew member after the capturing to keep away from detection.
Her attorneys say that cost is an try and smear her character. The bag was thrown away with out testing the contents, protection attorneys mentioned.
