Dave Halls, first assistant director of the film rustwhere cameraman Halyna Hutchins was killed in an accidental shooting in 2021he received a six-month suspended prison sentence at a plea hearing Friday in a New Mexico court.

It was this first assistant who gave birth to Alec Baldwin on October 21, 2021. a gun allegedly loaded with blankswhich the actor fired, killing Hutchins and wounding the film’s director, Joel Souza.

Halls, 63, pleaded no contest to negligent use of a deadly weapon and unsafe handling of a firearm and received a “suspended sentence of six months with unsupervised probation“, the judge in charge of the case, Mary Marlowe Sommer, explained to the defendant.

The judge told Halls she could have requested a court hearing. “Are you willing to give up that right?” she asked. “Yes, Your Honor,” replied Halls, who spoke via video.

Sommers added that Halls will also have to testify at all hearings involving all defendants in the case., pay a $500 fine, take a firearm safety course within 60 days and have no contact with witnesses and co-defendants in the case. case.

Halls previously reached a plea deal with New Mexico prosecutors for his role in the murder. His hearing was streamed live on the New Mexico court’s YouTube channel. Also present were Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis representing the state of New Mexico, and Halls’ attorney, Lisa Torraco.

Baldwin, as well as the gunman, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, were charged with manslaughter. If found guilty, they face up to 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine.

A police investigation is trying to determine how there could have been live ammunition on a shooting set at a ranch in New Mexico, which is strictly prohibited, precisely to avoid accidents.

The police concluded that Gutierrez-Reed put ammunition in the gun used by Baldwin, instead of a dummy bullet.