At a hearing on Monday, where emotional family members and friends testified and demanded justice and a punishment that would instill greater accountability for safety on film sets, a movie weapons supervisor was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust.” Film armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has been detained for more than a month in a county jail outside of Santa Fe after a jury found her guilty in March of involuntary manslaughter in the murder of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Despite not having “proper time, resources, and staffing,” Gutierrez-Reed told the judge that she was not the monster that others had made her out to be and that she had done her hardest to perform on the set. Her petition for a shorter sentence was denied.
Alec Baldwin Enters A Not Guilty Plea Regarding The Manslaughter Incident
During a rehearsal on a movie set outside of Santa Fe in October 2021, Alec Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer of “Rust,” was pointing a gun at Hutchins when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza. Regarding the charge of involuntary manslaughter, Baldwin has entered a not-guilty plea. His trial is set to take place in July in a Santa Fe courtroom. The court addressed Gutierrez-Reed, saying, “You were the armorer, the one that stood between a safe weapon and a weapon that could kill someone.” “On your own, a safe weapon was made deadly. However, if it were up to you, Ms. Hutchins would still be here, a husband would have his spouse, and a little child would have his mother.”
