Crew member sues Alec Baldwin, others over Rust shooting

Alec Baldwin and Serge Svetnoy. Pics/AFP

The head of lighting on the film Rust has filed a lawsuit over Alec Baldwin's fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the Western, alleging negligence that caused him "severe emotional distress" that will haunt him forever.

Serge Svetnoy said in the suit that the bullet that killed his close friend Hutchins, narrowly missed him, and he held her head as she died. "They should never, ever, have had live rounds on this set," Svetnoy's attorney Gary A Dordick said at a news conference.

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The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court names nearly two dozen defendants associated with the film including Baldwin, who was both star and a producer; David Halls, the assistant director who handed Baldwin the gun; and Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who was in charge of weapons.

It is the first known lawsuit stemming from the October 21 shooting, which also injured Rust director Joel Souza. It was the ninth film that Svetnoy and Hutchins had worked on together, and he had taken the job at low pay because she asked him to. "She was my friend," Svetnoy said at the news conference.

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