Woman killed by prop gun discharged by Alec Baldwin on New Mexico movie set: reports
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The sheriff's office said a 42-year-old woman was airlifted to a hospital, where she died, while a 42-year-old man was getting emergency care at another hospital.
A woman has been killed and a man injured Thursday after they were shot by a prop firearm at a movie set outside Santa Fe, authorities said.
Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times and the Santa Fe New Mexican reported the movie’s star and producer Alec Baldwin fired the fatal shot, citing the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office said a 42-year-old woman was airlifted to a hospital, where she died, while a 42-year-old man was getting emergency care at another hospital.
Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, citing a sheriff’s office statement, said the woman killed was cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, while the man injured was director Joel Souza.
Production has been halted on the Western movie “Rust,” which was also written by Souza with Baldwin producing and starring in it.
A spokesperson for Baldwin said there was an accident on the set involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reported Baldwin was seen Thursday outside the sheriff’s office in tears, but attempts to get comment from him were unsuccessful.
“According to investigators, it appears that the scene being filmed involved the use of a prop firearm when it was discharged,” sheriff’s spokesman Juan Rios told the Albuquerque Journal. “Detectives are investigating how and what type of projectile was discharged.”