Actor Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman: Santa Fe Sheriff

A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin who is producing and starring in a Western movie killed his director of photography and injured the director Thursday at the movie set outside Santa Fe authorities saidSanta Fe County Sheriffs officials said Halyna Hutchins director of photography for the movieRust and director Joel Souza were shotHutchins 42 was airlifted to University of New Mexico Hospital where she was pronounced dead by medical personnel authorities saidSouza 48 was taken by ambulance to Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center where hes undergoing treatment for his injuriesProduction has been halted on the filmAlso Read Uttar Pradesh Lawyer shot dead inside court campus in ShahjahanpurA spokesperson for Baldwin said there was an accident on the set involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanksThe Santa Fe New Mexican reported the 68yearold Baldwin was seen Thursday outside the sheriffs office in tears but attempts to get comment from him were unsuccessfulThe International Cinematographers Guild confirmed that the woman fatally shot was Hutchins a cinematographerThe details are unclear at this moment but we are working to learn more and we support a full investigation into this tragic event guild president John Lindley and executive director Rebecca Rhine said in a statementHutchins 42 was director of photography on the 2020 action film iquestArchenemyiquest starring Joe Manganiello A 2015 graduate of the American Film Institute she was named a iquestrising stariquest by American Cinematographer in 2019Im so sad about losing Halyna And so infuriated that this could happen on a set said Archenemy director Adam Egypt Mortimer on Twitter She was a brilliant talent who was absolutely committed to art and to filmBaldwin was a producer on Souzas 2019 film Crown Vic which starred Thomas Jane as a veteran Los Angeles police officer on a manhunt for two violent bank robbers His first credited film 2010s Hannas Gold was a treasure hunt adventure featuring Luke PerryDeputies responded about 2 pm to the movie set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch after 911 calls came in of a person being shot on set sheriffs spokesman Juan Rios saidHe said detectives were investigating how and what type of projectile was dischargedThis investigation remains open and active Rios said in a statement No charges have been filed in regard to this incident Witnesses continue to be interviewed by detectivesFilming for Rust was set to continue into early November according to a news release from the New Mexico Film OfficeThe movie is about a 13yearold boy who is left to fend for himself and his younger brother following the death of their parents in 1880s Kansas according to the Internet Movie Database website The teen goes on the run with his longestranged grandfather played by Baldwin after the boy is sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancherIn 1993 Brandon Lee 28 son of the late martialarts star Bruce Lee died after being hit by a 44caliber slug while filming a death scene for the movie iquestThe Crow The gun was supposed to have fired a blank but an autopsy turned up a bullet lodged near his spineIn 1984 actor JonErik Hexum died after shooting himself in the head with a prop gun blank while pretending to play Russian roulette with a 44 Magnum on the set of the television series Cover UpThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever