Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Was Involved In Friend’s Fatal Motorcycle Accident

The highest armorer on the set of Alec Baldwin‘s Rust movie – who’s in the meanwhile inside the scorching seat over the actor’s lethal taking photos of a crew member – was reportedly involved in a single different tragic dying merely last 12 months.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is the 24-year-old lady who was accountable for all firearm repairs, teaching and safety on the Santa Fe, New Mexico, set of the western film. It was solely her second time holding that kind of high-stakes place.

Whereas the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office investigates what exactly went flawed when Baldwin by likelihood shot two of us and killed one whereas rehearsing a scene last Thursday, it’s now being revealed that Gutierrez-Reed had direct involvement inside the lethal bike accident of an in depth good pal – rather a lot so that her insurance coverage protection agency ended up forking over a hefty, five-figure sum to his family.

In step with authorized paperwork, Gutierrez-Reed’s late pal, Tyler Dyer, was killed in a crash that moreover involved her boyfriend, Aaron Butcher, last August. Every males had been on separate bikes on the time; Butcher had borrowed his girlfriend’s.

In step with Dyer’s father, his son, Butcher and Gutierrez-Reed had all been consuming alcohol at a celebration earlier inside the night. Gutierrez-Reed reportedly knowledgeable laws enforcement officers that she had seen every males drink 4 to five beers each sooner than she allegedly gave her boyfriend the keys to her expertise.

Butcher was apparently already on probation from a earlier DUI arrest, and he was solely allowed to perform motor autos that contained a breathalyzer linked to the ignition. His girlfriend’s bike, nonetheless, was not outfitted with that.

Police say Dyer was dashing and crashed his bike proper right into a wall after taking a flip too quickly. In making an attempt to steer clear of his good pal, Butcher reportedly ended up wrecking Gutierrez-Reed’s bike.

Dyer died inside the accident, whereas Butcher was arrested for aggravated DUI. And since he was driving his girlfriend’s bike, her insurance coverage protection agency reportedly paid Dyer’s mom and father $50,000 in change for an settlement to not file a lawsuit in opposition to Gutierrez-Reed.

After each half was said and executed, the paperwork state that Dyer’s mom and father ended up with decrease than $16,000 each.

Whereas it’s not however recognized who or what number of people are answerable for the taking photos dying of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and taking photos hurt of director Joel Souza, many people immediately involved with manufacturing have pointed the finger at every Gutierrez-Reed and the movie’s assistant director, Dave Halls.

Merely last month, Gutierrez-Reed said all through a podcast interview that she was extraordinarily uneasy about how inexperienced she was in her line of labor.

She appeared on Voices of the West to dish on her experience as the highest armorer on the Nicolas Cage western film, The Earlier Method. It was her first time inside the place.

“You already know, I was truly nervous about it at first, and I practically didn’t take the job because of I wasn’t optimistic if I was ready … nonetheless, doing it, like, it went truly simply,” she said.

Regarding teaching, Gutierrez-Reed outlined that loading blanks into prop weapons was “the scariest” part of the job because of she didn’t know the fitting option to do it appropriately. She said her father – famed Hollywood armorer Thell Reed – helped her work by means of it.