Alec Baldwin might not have killed Halyna Hutchins: the key is in the firing pin of the gun

“I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger, ever.” This declared by actor Alec Baldwin-who supposedly accidentally killed Halyna Hutchinsthe cinematographer during the filming of ‘Rust’ last October – could be true.

The actor pointed out in the interview last December, which was also the first after the tragic incident, he assured that he could not imagine that there was live ammunition in the study. “Somebody put live ammunition in that gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be in the building,” he said then. two months after that interview, there could be good news for the actor.

According Mary Carmack-Altwiesthe New Mexico prosecutor handling the case, the gun could have been fired without alec baldwin pull the trigger. This has been explained in an interview with Vanity Fair. For the prosecutor, the case is still on the table. However, she assures that the actor’s phrase lit the light bulb. Carmack-Altwies has confessed that she did not know much about weapons and less about revolvers from the 1850s. When she heard the actor’s statements quoted his research team to do an unofficial test of their own, while awaiting the outcome of the official FBI analysis that will determine the functionality and mechanical flaws that could have caused it to go off.

“One of the investigators in my office has a very old type revolver, so he brought it, at my request, so that we could look at it and see if that was possible,” collects the statements of the interview in the cited medium. Thus, they picked up a room in the office to inspect the weapon with the help of two investigators. “You can pull the hammer back without pulling the trigger and without locking it. So you pull it back halfway, it doesn’t lock, and then if you let go, the firing pin can hit the primer of the bullet“, Explains the judge after his verification.

At the moment, the actor faces the complaint of the family of the director of photography for reckless homicide. The relatives hold the actor and the film crew directly responsible for not having respected the mandatory protocols in shootings that have weapons. They want to find all those responsible for an accident that would never have happened, they say, if the security measures had been respected in a shoot from which several members of the team had already resigned before the accident, denouncing that budget cuts were endangering the security. They seek fair compensation, according to the victim’s family’s lawyer at a press conference.

In November the film’s script supervisor, Mamie Mitchell, and lighting chief Serge Svetnoy filed lawsuits against Baldwin and other members of the production for putting the safety of employees at risk. Statements from crew members who worked on the set of “Rust” describe a precarious work environment in which protests mounted and half a dozen employees resigned the same day as the accident.

For their part, the Police are trying to find out the exact origin of the ammunition handed over the company PDQ Arm & Prop LLCan Albuquerque-based company whose owner, Seth Kenny, told authorities he remembered having seen a shipment that “catch his attention” because it was labeled in an unusual way. The owner of the business had previously worked with the father of Hannah Gutiérrez Reed, the 24-year-old hired as a weapons manager in the production of Baldwin and whose father has acknowledged that in other filmings he used live ammunition for target practice, according to reports. Eph.