Hutchins was shot and killed on the set of the western film Rust, which was shooting in October 2021.
The gunsmith of the movie Rust, during the filming of which Alec Baldwin shot and killed Ukrainian cameraman Galina Hutchins, was found guilty by a jury. He was responsible for the gun from which the live ammunition was fired on the set of the western. Fox News reported it.
Jurors deliberated the case in a New Mexico court for nearly three hours. Following the verdict, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer ordered Hannah Gutierrez-Reed to be jailed pending sentencing.
He faces up to 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine.
The prosecution focused more on Gutierrez-Reed’s behavior as a gunsmith, arguing that he did not do his job properly.
Gutierrez-Reed’s attorneys told jurors that the prosecution did not present enough evidence to convict the gunmaker of involuntary manslaughter.
However, the prosecution presented evidence in court that the prop operator brought a box of his own live ammunition from his home to filming in New Mexico, and that these cartridges were accidentally mixed with blanks. As a result, while the prosecutor’s office and the court agreed, a live cartridge, due to the negligence and irresponsibility of Gutierrez and a tragic chain of events, was loaded into a prop revolver, which was used in shot by Alec Baldwin.
Gutierrez-Reed’s attorney told the court that the prosecution failed to prove that her accuser was solely responsible for Hutchins’ death and only made her a scapegoat.
It was previously reported that a gun supervisor on the set of the movie Rust must have been hungry the day cameraman Galina Hutchins was shot.
Source: korrespondent
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