Prosecutors in Santa Fe County, New Mexico announced Thursday that actor and producer Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter for the shooting during the filming of his movie ‘Rust’ which killed director Halyna Hutchins. The film’s head armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was also charged with involuntary manslaughter. Both face a maximum of 5 years in prison if convicted.
Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said Baldwin is being charged as both an actor and a producer on the movie. “She says he pulls the trigger as the actor, and had a duty to make sure the set was safe as a producer” reports TMZ.
Carmack-Altwies believes the investigation took so long was because prosecutors were waiting to see what the FBI concluded about the
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