Actor Alec Baldwin, the prominent critic of President Trump who infamously portrayed the former president on sketch comedy show SNL, has found himself in a bit of hot water after a staggering tragedy on the set of a movie he was filming.
Baldwin, who is notorious for angry outbursts directed at fellow airplane passengers and violent confrontations with strangers vying with him for the same parking spot, apparently shot and killed the director of photography, and wounded the director, of the movie “Rust”, a western which Baldwin was filming in New Mexico, according to the New York Times and the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. The killing occurred Thursday when Baldwin fired a “prop firearm” on the set of the film.
The cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, 42, was killed, and the director, Joel Souza, 48, was injured around 1:50 p.m. on the set of “Rust,” which is being filmed in Santa Fe County, said Juan Rios, a spokesman for the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. The circumstances of the shooting are under investigation.
The Santa Fe Sheriff told reporters that the shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch happened in the middle of a scene that was either being rehearsed or filmed. He said the Sheriff’s Office was interviewing people on the set to determine how the two had been shot. No charges have been filed against anyone involved with the shooting, including Baldwin.
Law enforcement says they’re still trying to nail down the details of exactly what happened.
“We’re trying to determine right now how and what type of projectile was used in the firearm,” he said.
Hutchins, the director of photography, was flown to the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, where she later died. Souza, the director, was taken to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe. His condition was “not immediately available,” per the NYT.
The movie’s production company, Rust Movie Productions LLC, said in a statement that “[t]he entire cast and crew has been absolutely devastated by today’s tragedy, and we send our deepest condolences to Halyna’s family and loved ones. We have halted production on the film for an undetermined period of time and are fully cooperating with the Santa Fe Police Department’s investigation. We will be providing counseling services to everyone connected to the film as we work to process this awful event.”
When approached by the NYT (and other media outlets), the film’s producers didn’t immediately respond to emails or phone calls on Thursday night, nor did Baldwin or any of his representatives.
The actor, who has starred or participated in many classic movies and television shows, has long been known for his liberal views, including his support for gun control.
Baldwin hasn’t posted on his social media accounts since the incident. However, back in 2017, Baldwin tweeted about a police shooting, saying “I wonder how it feels to wrongly kill someone?”
What a way to find out.
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My brother lists him as one of the top ten turds to work with; tops on that list are Donald Sutherland, Dr. Phil, Jim Carey and Liev Schreiber .
Snuff film ~ just saying.
I don’t fly all that often,and soon probably won’t ever be able to again. This asshole is one of those guys on a plane you pray to run into. When he starts his shit. Just get up say nothing,and put an ass cracking on him. Just another Hollywood know-nothing know it all.
Baldwin is an arrogant POS with some serious anger management issues. His ex-wife and daughter can attest to his viciousness. He’s also anti-gun which makes this murder and attempted murder all the more interesting. Blanks can kill, and ANY firearm should be handled with care. A blank has the gunpowder, primer, shell and all and only lacks the projectile (bullet) It’s like a shotgun shell without the buckshot. You NEVER point a gun at anyone unless you want to kill them. Tragically sad for the folks who were shot.
Yup, I remember when this guy tragically killed himself with a prop gun:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum
I saw a reenactment of the a gunfight once, where the actors were firing real guns loaded with blanks. Prior to starting, one of the actors put a can of Coke on a stump and shot at it at close range. It blew a hole in the can. So, Baldwin probably was very close to the two who were shot. Even at a distance, I don’t think they are supposed to shoot directly at the other person. It sounds like he was extremely negligent at the very least.
Filming a Western indicates the gun was almost certainly a SINGLE ACTION REVOLVER. This means Baldwin had to cock the hammer, and then pull the trigger, all while aiming the gun at the girl he killed and the director standing behind her.
That’s too much fucking up to be excused as an accident.
And Baldwin has been in COUNTLESS movies with guns. He’s even played Jack Ryan. So there is NO CHANCE Baldwin has had no firearms training, which means he knew better than to point the gun at anything he did not intend to kill.
Someone is lying. As usual.
Had a guy in the barracks fire a .357 blank at another guy’s foot. Blew a hole in it. No bullet needed. It was a bitch to cover up that one.
I’m betting this was Baldwin’s personal firearm tho, screwing around doing retarded play acting off-camera. Sounds like it was live ammo. Can’t imagine the weapons guys allowing any live ammo of any kind on-set for any reason. Since Bruce Lee’s kid (Brandon Lee) got shot and killed on-camera with a live .44 that’s been the rule. Manslaughter is manslaughter, even if your name is Baldwin. Karma.
I wonder if he’ll do any time?
I wonder if he will be charged?
He won’t be charged.
But he’ll be the loudest mouth on Twitter when something similar happens in the future to a high-profile conservative or Trump supporter.
THEN he’ll demand justice.
Plus, additional subconscious propaganda directed at all the snowflakes that guns are dangerous and, look, Trump killed someone with it! (Fake Trump – real Trump, who cares?)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCRvxxgVEAAX1BW?format=jpg&name=900×900
You could change the far right column to be “hundreds of millions of evil gun owners” and it would still be 100% correct.
Why was Alec pointing a gun at the director and director of photography anyway?
Fucking around for sure, and was never taught first rule of gun ownership, treat all guns as loaded at all times and never point it at what you don’t intend to shoot.
Fucking around … Twice???
I mean, after you shoot the first person, and they keel over, and there’s blood (?) … why in the hell would you then shoot yet another person??
Baldwin, serving 20 to life …. oh, Dear Lord, make it so!
I read the projectile passed through the first person and hit the 2nd guy in the clavicle.
I read the projectile passed through the first person and hit the 2nd guy in the clavicle.
The projectile wouldn’t do that if the projectile was a blank. A real round, however, would. He shot her in the stomach and shot him in the shoulder.
I said projectile on purpose, because unless you were there, you don’t know jack shit about it yet. Being a prop gun it may not have been an actual bullet round. And thus far the report says it was discharged once, so as always you don’t know wtf you’re talking about.
A “prop” doesn’t fire projectiles through people. Neither does a gun loaded with a blank.
Technically, any gun used in the filming of a movie is a prop.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s a non-firing replica or a functioning firearm.
And they know that, which is why ALL of the articles have reported using the same language. To sow confusion.
Original Dan…So Sorry you ignorant asshole but I do know what I’m talking about. A bullet is a projectile and an arrow is a projectile and a shotgun shell is a projectile as is a heat seeking missile. Any object moving through space is a projectile, even a baseball. A blank PROJECTILE wouldn’t go through two people, there is no bullet in a blank.
Real guns can be and are used as props. You don’t even understand the definition of prop.
Bullet: a. A usually metal projectile in the shape of a pointed cylinder or a ball that is expelled from a firearm, especially a rifle or handgun.
b. Such a projectile in a metal casing; a cartridge.
I never said I knew what was fired, what I said was a blank wouldn’t penetrate two bodies. In your haste to trash me you just showed how ignorant and ill-informed you truly are. You have the reading skills of a congenital idiot.
Go peddle your bullshit elsewhere.
Obviously there was some type of something that became a projectile. People can say she didn’t deserve it etc. But she did choose to try to enrich herself helping a fucking psychopath to enrich himself
Call in the government cover up team. One of our side is in deep doo doo.
He’s part of the protected class. He walks. C’mon! Let’s bet. Name your price.
Some of the tweets are fascinating.
https://newsthud.com/trump-supporters-react-to-alec-baldwin-firing-prop-gun-resulting-in-death-of-halyna-hutchinson/
How do you shoot 2 people with 1 round ? Were they standing in line ?
A horrible accident, even if Mr. Baldwin is as big an asshole as reputed. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. And RIP to the luckless victims.
Liberals probably know nothing of safe gunhandling. Still a damn high price to pay for ignorance.
It’s too bad it wasn’t Baldwin who was killed, rather than Halyna Hutchins.
So the anti-gun liberal from New York who makes tons of money making money with guns and violence kills one and injures another with a prop pistol. Poetic justice for him, sympathy for the dead and injured.
I wonder how SNL will convert this into a comedy sketch.
LMAO, you went there….
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They won’t. Last name isn’t … Cheney
I really don’t care, however if Baldwin had been the victim, I would party like it’s 1999. Dreams can come true.
Curly Howard: Born Jerome Horwitz, “Curly” was the youngest of the Stooge brothers. When Curly was 12, he accidentally shot himself in the foot while cleaning a rifle. His older brother Moe got him to the hospital in time to save Curly’s life, but it left him with what would be a recognizable lifelong limp. His fear of surgery kept him from rectifying it, and Curly wound up incorporating his handicap into his act. If you ever wondered why Curly had that exaggerated walk, now you know: It stems from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Alec Baldwin, in his glorious ignorance, probably doesn’t know about the 4 rules of gun safety, but instead chooses to demonize the NRA, who are all about gun safety. Just another stupid idiot living in our incredibly stupid world.
I’m interested primarily in how the firearm came to be pointed at the victims. Those circumstances interest me more than how the firearm came to be loaded with real ammo.
Not the most believable story to come out of Hollywood this year.
Either way, the bullet point ( no pun intended) edition of this moral lesson-
Don’t point guns at people unless you intend to kill them.
Don’t put live rounds in prop guns.
Was anyone surprised that it was Alec Baldwin?
Whether this was media distraction for some reason, or a slow day, or everyone wants to make an anti-gun message out of this, I don’t know.
What I do know is Baldwin being a leftist asshole or whether he didn’t like Trump, doesn’t matter. I hate the guy for being another hollywood whore and I don’t give a shit about this ‘tragedy’, but everyone trying to get us to make a political issue out of this from the other side is just as fucking fake and gay.
Baldwin should hang for this.
Wha ?
Huh?
Alec Baldwin shit himself ? ?
Oh …
he shot somebody
wtf. ! then
who gives a shit
https://www.worldgreynews.com/details/175498/halyna-hutchins-next-project-was-documentary-on-hollywood-pedophile-rings