Alec Baldwin’s ‘recklessness’ on set led to criminal charge, prosecutors say

Actor and Hannah Gutierrez Reed, violated ‘all of the standards ... if we have a gun in our hands’, says Santa Fe DA district attorney

Alec Baldwin’s “recklessness”, and the failure of his production team to follow basic gun safety procedures on the set of the movie Rust, led to the decision to file a criminal charge against the US actor in the death of a cinematographer, prosecutors said.

Mary Carmack-Altwies, the Santa Fe district attorney, said Baldwin, and the movie’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, violated “all of the standards that we all have to follow if we have a gun in our hands” in the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins with a prop weapon during a rehearsal in New Mexico in 2021.