Hannah Gutiérrez was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for mistakenly loading a live bullet into a revolver Baldwin was using on a “Rust” set and shooting and killing cinematographer Hannah Gutiérrez.
After a long judicial process, they sentenced the weapon manager of the movie “Rust”, Hannah Gutiérrez, to 18 months in prison for giving the wrong gun to the actor Alec Baldwinwho shot and killed the director of photography Halyna Hutchins in the middle of filming the feature film in 2021.
The Justice had already declared her guilty in March although the sentence had yet to be determined. The ruling held her responsible for involuntary manslaughter for mistakenly loading a live bullet into a revolver Baldwin was using on a film set in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
For its part, Baldwin is still waiting for the definition of his futurewhich will be known in the trial that will begin on July 10. The jury indicted him in January for involuntary manslaughter.
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Why was Hannah Gutiérrez convicted?
Gutiérrez’s lawyer, Jason Bowles, had asked that he granted parolebut prosecutors requested 18 full months, arguing that there was no repentance.
The fiscal Kari Morrissey pointed to Gutiérrez’s phone calls from jail in which he said the jurors were “idiots”, that the judge had been “bribed”, and He continued to blame Baldwin and others for the shooting.
Gutiérrez had already spent a month in the Santa Fe County jail after his conviction.
Tragedy in Rust: How Halyna Hutchins Died
Hutchins was fatally shot when Baldwin He pointed his gun at the cinematographer and triggered the gun while she was setting up a scene.
The gunsmith’s lawyer assured that Gutiérrez was the scapegoat for a chaotic production in which he was not given time to check the weapons. He maintained that the death of Hutchins was a product of Baldwin’s reckless use of firearms and his efforts to speed up and control the shooting. Baldwin was also the film’s producer and screenwriter.
The actor of “30 Rock” denies pulling the trigger and said he had been instructed to point at the camera. But FBI and an independent firearms expert found that the gun would not fire without pulling the trigger.
This tragedy was an unprecedented event in hollywood as it was the first time in history that a cast or crew member was killed by a bullet accidentally loaded into a gun.
Source: Ambito
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