Alec Baldwin and weapons handler to be charged with manslaughter in deadly ‘Rust’ shooting
LA TimesThe expected charges come more than a year after the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, was fatally shot on a movie set near Santa Fe. New Mexico prosecutors said they are filing felony criminal charges against actor Alec Baldwin and the armorer of the low-budget western “Rust,” following the fatal shooting of the film’s cinematographer. “All my career, without incident, I’ve relied on the safety experts to declare the gun safe and never had a problem,” Baldwin said in 2022 at the Boulder International Film Festival. Alec Baldwin outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office after the shooting on the set of the film “Rust” on Oct. 21, 2021. Halls — who was the “Rust” safety officer on set — had told Baldwin the gun was “cold,” meaning that it did not contain live ammunition, according to sheriff’s records.