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0 A jury convicted a movie weapons supervisor of involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal on the set of the Western movie Rust.
The verdict against movie armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed assigns new blame in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021 after an assistant director last year pleaded no contest to negligent handling of a firearm. The proceedings are a preamble to a scheduled trial of Baldwin in July on a single charge of involuntary manslaughter.
Baldwin, the lead actor and a co-producer on Rust, was indicted by a grand jury in January on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.
He was pointing a gun at Hutchins on the movie set outside Santa Fe, N.M., when the gun went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza.
Prosecutors at a two week trial alleged Gutierrez-Reed unwittingly brought live ammunition onto the set of Rust while flouting basic industry gun-safety guidelines.
The involuntary manslaughter charge against Gutierrez-Reed carries a maximum penalty of 18 months in prison and a $5,000 US fine.
The defendant was ordered to be taken into custody by deputies immediately after the verdict was read in court.
Gutierrez-Reed, who was 24 years old and on her second feature film as armourer at the time of the 2021 shooting, pleaded not guilty at the trial held in downtown Santa Fe.
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