Rust Armorer In More Gun Trouble

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer for the film Rust who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for actor Alec Baldwin capturing the film’s cinematographer to dying with a prop gun throughout filming, has once more discovered herself in a New Mexico courtroom because of damning proof discovered on her cellphone through the Rust investigation.

In keeping with a report at theguardian.com, when investigators searched Gutierrez-Reed’s cellphone through the Rust investigation, they discovered a video of her with a handgun within the lavatory of a bar. Within the self-filmed video, shot a couple of weeks earlier than the film’s filming started, she defined how she snuck the prohibited firearm into the institution.

Gutierrez-Reed initially pleaded not responsible to a cost of carrying a gun right into a licensed liquor institution. However on Monday, she modified her plea to responsible in alternate for a decreased sentence of 18 months supervised probation.

After the sentencing, Gutierrez-Reed addressed the choose, saying, “I’d similar to to apologize to the courtroom and thanks to your judgment as we speak.”

Gutierrez-Reed’s plea settlement prohibits her whereas on probation from possessing firearms, consuming alcohol or medicine and she or he should pay $180 in charges whereas submitting a pattern of her DNA to a felony database and finishing an dependancy remedy program. The settlement makes it doable for Gutierrez-Reed to be launched from jail as quickly as June 2025 to finish probation in Arizona.

Baldwin initially claimed he didn’t pull the set off on the gun that fired the deadly shot. Amazingly he made that far-fetched declare even supposing cameras reportedly recorded the capturing.

He additionally confronted an involuntary manslaughter cost when he went to trial for the Rust capturing again in July. However the costs towards Baldwin have been dropped when the choose within the case discovered that the prosecution had didn’t disclose some necessary proof.

“There isn’t a method for the courtroom to proper this unsuitable,” Decide Mary Marlowe Sommer mentioned in dismissing the fees.

That dismissal prompted Gutierrez-Reed to attraction her March conviction on the involuntary manslaughter costs. That attraction remains to be pending.

The high-profile trials stemmed from Baldwin capturing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with what he assumed was a clean gun again on the set of Rust in October 2021. The movie’s director, Joel Souza, was additionally injured by the shot.