22/10/2021
Patron and actor Alec Baldwin fired a mount gun Thursday that killed one crew member and injured another on the set of the movie “ Rust” in New Mexico, Santa Fe County sheriff's office said.
The film's director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, 42, was killed, and director Joel Souza, 48, was injured when Baldwin, 63, discharged the stage arm, the sheriff's office said in a statement Thursday evening.
Souza was taken to the sanitarium by ambulance and was entering exigency care, officers said.
"There was an accident moment on the New Mexico set of'Rust involving the misfire of a mount gun with blanks,"a prophet for Baldwin said in a statement." Product has been halted for the time being. The safety of our cast and crew remains our top precedence."
A representative for Baldwin declined to note further.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reported that Baldwin was seen Thursday outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office in gashes, but attempts to get a comment from him were unprofitable. Images attained by NBC News showed Baldwin in a parking lot outside the sheriff's office. In one print, the actor is seen bending over by the curbside, and in another speaking on the phone.
Hutchins' representative declined to note. She was flown by copter to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the sheriff's office said.
Frances Fisher, who stars in the movie, twittered overnight that Souza was out of the sanitarium, although NBC News couldn't incontinently confirm that the director had been released.
“ We've a series of guidelines in the assiduity that govern the use of blank arms and security on set,” he said. “ So my question is, of course, originally, was that protocol followed?”
In 1993,"The Crow" actor Brandon Lee failed in a filming accident after he was shot with a mount gun. The son of the martial trades film icon Bruce Lee was 28.
A vindicated account for Brandon Lee, which is run by his family Shannon Lee, according to the memoir, twittered late Thursday that"our hearts go out"to Hutchins'and Souza's families and all involved in the incident.
"No bone should ever be killed by a gun on a film set. Period,"the account twittered.
In 1984, the actor Jon-Erik Hexum failed playing Russian roulette with a stage dynamo loaded with blank and empty charges on the set of the" Cover Up" Television series, UPI reported at the time.