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(NewsNation) — The proceedings for histrion Alec Baldwin, who faces a felony involuntary manslaughter complaint after the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins connected the acceptable of his movie "Rust," continues Thursday.
Hutchins' decease astir 3 years agone sent daze waves done the movie industry. During a rehearsal successful October 2021, Baldwin was utilizing a weapon meant to beryllium loaded with dummy rounds erstwhile he allegedly pointed it astatine the camera and fired, sidesplitting Hutchins and wounding manager Joel Souza. It’s not wide who brought unrecorded rounds onto the set.
Baldwin, who was besides a shaper connected the film, has maintained helium did not propulsion the trigger connected the limb and that it fired by accident. However, FBI analysts disputed this aft examining the gun.
The movie's armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is presently serving an 18-month situation sentence for involuntary manslaughter. She was the idiosyncratic connected acceptable liable for maintaining and keeping way of weapons utilized successful the movie. Prosecutors alleged she was negligent for not realizing unrecorded rounds had been mixed successful with a container of dummy rounds.
Lawyers for Gutierrez-Reed argued that producers had failed to support the acceptable harmless and did not clasp capable information meetings. In addition, they said, Baldwin failed to wage attraction astatine firearms information briefings.
Gutierrez-Reed has appealed and has accused the prosecutors of withholding evidence.
A 16-person jury — 11 women and 5 men — was selected for the trial, with 4 of them serving arsenic alternates.
NewsNation's Alex Caprariello contributed to this report.
