Production managers hired Hannah Gutierrez Reed then 24 to oversee

New Mexico prosecutors are expected to bring criminal charges as early as this week in the accidental deadly shooting by Alec Baldwin of a cinematographer on the set of “Rust,” a low-budget western movie. Baldwin, the movie’s star, was rehearsing a scene in an old wooden church on a ranch near Santa Fe, N.M., with Halyna Hutchins, the film’s cinematographer, and Joel Souza, the director. Hutchins, who was in charge of photography, wanted to line up a camera angle to capture Baldwin slowly pulling his prop gun — a vintage Colt .45 revolver — from his leather holster and aiming it at the camera. https://unsplash.com/@jeffresytokese https://unsplash.com/@avatar2thewayofwatermoviesd https://unsplash.com/@avatar2full4kmovie https://unsplash.com/@avatar2thewaymovie https://unsplash.com/@avatar2fullmovie2022 https://unsplash.com/@avatar2hdmoviethewayofwater https://unsplash.com/@avatar2fullhdmovieontv https://unsplash.com/@avatarthewayofwater2movie https://unsplash.com/@avatar2fullmovieinhd2022 https://unsplash.com/@avatar2movieengsub https://pastebin.com/s1fPD7Vy https://pastelink.net/th57k9s8 https://ide.geeksforgeeks.org/7e77cfa0-e6d6-4980-8cd3-7377f7baa0ba https://www.bankier.pl/forum/temat_asdfsfdfsdf,58639313.html https://mypastelink.com/le28yki1lr https://pastebin.pl/view/63f40933 https://paste2.org/Vf9zkAEd https://anotepad.com/notes/thss83xa https://etextpad.com/lruazabbcf https://justetext.com/3L0q0fxo6C https://paste.rs/d91 https://pasteio.com/xi1TJQPvGqmE https://www.pastery.net/tudjyd/ https://paste.ee/p/GQYBY https://bitbin.it/VC5Pu377/ https://paiza.io/projects/Nn9vn45S2Zcn8o3H5lBCMA https://notes.io/q2yPi https://ideone.com/GvLCue The gun went off, firing a bullet that pierced Hutchins’ chest, then lodged into Souza’s shoulder. Hutchins died that afternoon; Souza recovered from his injury. Despite Hollywood film protocols that forbid live rounds on movie sets, Santa Fe County Sheriff’s investigators found multiple actual bullets commingled with “dummy rounds” that movie producers use to simulate the look of real projectiles. Baldwin acknowledges pulling back the gun’s hammer, but has said he did not pull the trigger. “Someone is responsible ... but I know it’s not me,” Baldwin told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in a December 2021 TV interview. Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies spent nearly a year compiling evidence, which they turned over to Mary Carmack-Altwies, district attorney for New Mexico’s First Judicial District. In August, Carmack-Altwies disclosed she was considering charging up to four people, including Baldwin. Sources have told The Times that prosecutors have concentrated on individuals who handled the gun that day, the weapon’s so-called “chain of custody.” Here’s what to know about the case. What was the movie ‘Rust’ about? “Rust” starts as a story of a 13-year-old boy in 1880s Kansas who accidentally shot and killed a local rancher. The boy’s grandfather — a grizzled outlaw named Harland Rust, played by Baldwin — helps him escape from jail and they set out on a dangerous journey through New Mexico while being pursued by a U.S. Marshal and bounty hunter. Souza wrote the screenplay with input from Baldwin, who received a “Story By” credit. The 64-year-old actor also was a producer on the low-budget film, which was filming on Bonanza Creek Ranch, a popular movie location south of Santa Fe. The Times previously detailed problems that began before filmmakers arrived at Bonanza Creek Ranch in early October 2021. Production managers struggled to recruit experienced crew members. Veteran prop master Neal W. Zoromski, who turned down a position on “Rust” in late September 2021, told The Times that he was troubled by the producers’ refusal to hire a fully staffed props department, including an armorer to handle the guns and another person as props assistant. Instead, producers insisted that one person fill both jobs. Nearly a dozen experienced prop masters or armorers turned down a job on “Rust.” Most of the camera crew opted to quit the production the night before the shooting over concerns of safety and a lack of lodging near Santa Fe. Days before the shooting, the camera crew leader sent a text message to a production manager to complain about accidental gun discharges. “This is super unsafe,” Lane Luper wrote in an Oct. 16, 2021, text message to the unit production manager. Production managers hired Hannah Gutierrez Reed then 24 to oversee all weapons and projectiles and to also serve as props assistant. Gutierrez Reed, who lives in Arizona, is a daughter of famed Hollywood armorer Thell Reed. She had grown up visiting Hollywood sets and it was her second job as head armorer; her first was a Nicolas Cage movie, “The Old Way,” which filmed in 2021. Gutierrez Reed complained about being stretched too thin on “Rust,” according to emails with production managers. A week before the shooting, the film’s line producer, Gabrielle Pickle, scolded Gutierrez Reed in an email, saying complaints had been made about shotguns left unattended on set. Pickle also reprimanded Gutierrez Reed for allegedly not doing enough to support the film’s prop master. According to production call sheets viewed by The Times, guns were needed on 10 of the 12 film days, with multiple guns used per day. Gutierrez Reed has acknowledged that she loaded the weapons that day. She handed the fired weapon to sheriff’s deputies who arrived at Bonanza Creek Ranch after the shooting. She later told sheriff’s detectives that although she checked Baldwin’s gun that day before the unscheduled rehearsal, she “didn’t really check it too much after lunch” because the weapon had been locked in a safe during the crew’s lunch break. A Utah man who police say fatally shot his wife, their five children and his mother-in-law before turning the gun on himself had been investigated two years prior for child abuse, but local police and prosecutors decided not to criminally charge him, new records released Tuesday show. Police records obtained by the Associated Press shed light on warning signs and a previous police investigation into a violent pattern of behavior Michael Haight exhibited toward his family. Authorities said they were aware of previous problems in the home but didn’t elaborate during a news conference following the Jan. 4 killings in the small town of Enoch, citing an ongoing investigation. In a 2020 interview with authorities, Macie Haight, the family’s eldest daughter, detailed multiple assaults, including one in which she was choked by her father and was “very afraid that he was going to keep her from breathing and kill her.” A little more than two years later, police found eight bodies at the family’s home, including Macie’s. The murder-suicide rocked Enoch, an 8,000-person, southern Utah town on the outskirts of Cedar City where neighbors and members of the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints described the Haights as a loving family. An obituary published in the St. George Spectrum last week described Michael Haight in glowing terms as an Eagle Scout, businessman and father who “made it a point to spend quality time with each and every one of his children.” The obituary made no mention of the killings and was taken offline after backlash. Police believe Haight, 42, carried out the shootings two weeks after his wife had filed for divorce and just days after her relatives say he took guns from the house that could have been used to stop him. Two years before, in his interview with investigators, Haight denied assaulting his daughter and said the report was a misunderstanding. He said Macie was “mouthy,” and he admitted to getting angry, attributing some struggles to his father’s death and brother’s divorce. The investigator’s notes also shed light on Haight’s treatment of his wife, Tausha Haight. Macie told investigators that her father would often belittle her mother, a charge he denied. In his interview, however, Michael Haight said he had taken his wife’s iPad and cellphone to check her text messages to see whether she had spoken negatively about his family.