Alec Baldwin shooting: ‘Rust’ armorer Hannah Gutierrez says she doesn’t know how live ammo got on set, according to attorneys
Hannah Gutierrez was responding to “untruths which have been advised to the media,” a press release launched Thursday evening by her attorneys to NBC Information stated.
“Security is Hannah’s primary precedence on set,” reads the assertion from attorneys Jason Bowles and Robert Gorence. “In the end this set would by no means have been compromised if stay ammo weren’t launched. Hannah has no concept the place the stay rounds got here from.”
CNN reached out to Gutierrez’s attorneys and the “Rust” manufacturing workplace Friday morning for remark.
However on “Rust,” the weapons have been locked up each evening and at lunch, and Gutierrez had no concept how the stay spherical that killed director of images Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza bought on set, Gutierrez’s attorneys say of their assertion.
“Hannah and the prop grasp gained management over the weapons and he or she by no means witnessed anybody shoot stay rounds with these weapons and nor can be allow that,” the assertion stated, in response to NBC.
“We do not know the way these stay rounds bought there,” the district lawyer stated Wednesday. “And I believe that that can in all probability find yourself being type of the linchpin for whether or not a call is made about costs.”
Gutierrez’s attorneys additionally blame the manufacturing for security lapses, saying Gutierrez was employed to carry out two jobs on the movie and couldn’t strictly give attention to her duties as armorer.
“She fought for coaching, days to take care of weapons, and correct time to arrange for gunfire however in the end was overruled by manufacturing and her division,” the assertion reads.
