The first lawsuits are starting to fly after Alec Baldwin’s deadly shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
First Lawsuits Start to Fly In Alec Baldwin’s Deadly Shooting of Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
What I don’t understand is why Alec Baldwin had to actually point the gun directly at anyone, cock the hammer, aim, and pull the trigger?
The first report I read said that the scene they were working on had Baldwin in a balcony, and aiming the gun down at people below, but this was a movie set, where they would use camera angles to make it appear as though the actor is pointing the gun at someone, when in reality the gun is not aimed at anyone.
The bottom line is that this was practice, and Alec Baldwin did not have to go through all of the steps that were required to kill Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin didn’t have to cock the gun while practicing a scene. Baldwin didn’t have to aim the now-cocked gun at a human being. Baldwin did not have to pull the trigger of the gun.
The unintentional shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while working on the set of “Rust” has resulted in one of the film’s crew members bringing legal action against key individuals in the case.
As reported by Rolling Stone, the film’s producers (which include actor Alec Baldwin, who shot Hutchins) and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, as well as assistant director Dave Halls, are being sued for negligence.
According to the publication, the complaint claims that Halls failed to follow necessary safety procedures before declaring that the pistol was “cold,” which means that there were no live bullets in the gun.
Baldwin is chastised for not independently checking the gun’s safety before firing it. Furthermore, according to The New York Times, the lawsuit points out that the scenario they were filming at the time apparently did not necessitate the use of a gun.
“Simply put, there was no reason for a live bullet to be placed in that .45 Colt revolver or to be present anywhere on the Rust set, and the presence of a bullet in that revolver posed a lethal threat to everyone in its vicinity,” according to the complaint, which was reported by Rolling Stone.
Aside from that, Svetnoy is criticizing Gutierrez-Reed and the production crew for not having enough armorers on-site to guarantee that everything was done in an appropriate manner.
Specifically, the lawsuit claims that “Each of the producer defendants knew, or certainly should have known, that injury or death was substantially certain to occur if the armorer and prop manager they hired to oversee and manage the firearms and ammunition did not or could not properly and safely discharge their duties and responsibilities per industry standards.”
The lawsuit claims that the gunshot apparently missed Svetnoy by a hair and that he was the primary person in charge of caring for Hutchins in the immediate aftermath of Hutchins’ death.
It was in response to this circumstance that he voiced his emotions on social media last month, in which he called out the “unprofessionalism” that he believes may have resulted in the death of Hutchins and the injuries of film director Joel Souza.
“Yes, I was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Halyna during this fatal shot that took her life and injured the director Joel Souza. I was holding her in my arms while she was dying. Her blood was on my hands,” he claimed.
“I want to tell my opinion on why this has happened. I think I have the right to do it. It’s the fault of negligence and unprofessionalism,” he continued. “The negligence from the person who was supposed to check the weapon on the site did not do this; the person who had to announce that the loaded gun was on the site did not do this; the person who should have checked this weapon before bringing it to the set did not do it. And the DEATH OF THE HUMAN IS THE RESULT!”
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