Alec Baldwin sued by family of late ‘Rust’ cinematographer Halyna Hutchins

Jaiyeorie February 18, 2022

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Alec Baldwin sued by family of late ‘Rust’ cinematographer Halyna Hutchins Lawyers for Halyna Hutchins’ family filed a wrongful-death suit against actor Alec Baldwin on Tuesday — while releasing a chilling video re-enacting the movie-set shooting that killed the cinematographer. The eerie animated footage, titled “Killing of Halyna Hutchins on the set of ‘Rust,’ ” uses computer-generated figures of Baldwin and others on the fated film shoot that day. It includes the moment the star allegedly pulled the trigger of what was supposed to have been a prop gun with blank bullets. “There are many people culpable, but Mr. Baldwin was the person holding the weapon …

that but for him shooting, she would not have died,” said Hutchins family lawyer Brian Panish at a press conference in Los Angeles. “[Baldwin] has significant portion liability, but there are others, and that’s what this case is going to be about — assessing fair apportionment to whoever’s responsible for the senseless tragedy,” the lawyer said of the suit, which was filed in New Mexico. Baldwin is accused of firing the single bullet that hit and killed Hutchins, then exited her body and struck director Joel Souza in the clavicle, while filming the Western flick in New Mexico on Oct. 21. During the press conference, her family’s lawyers showed the nearly 10-minute animation video — which includes a gruesome moment depicting the bullet searing through Hutchins’ chest and skeleton, reddening them with blood amid a bone-crunching sound effect. The video has Baldwin sitting in a pew in a makeshift church on the set when he fires the gun, which hits Hutchins from 4 feet away. “I’m hit,” a dying Hutchins said, according to the suit, while Souza cried out in pain. The footage explains that there are simple ways to tell whether a bullet is live before it is fired. A dummy bullet would have had a hole in it and rattled when someone shook it, while a real bullet lacks the hole and makes no sound, the narrator said. The lawyers claimed Baldwin refused weapons training on how to perform the cross-draw, which was the type of action he was supposed to do. Randi McGinn, a lawyer from Albuquerque who is also representing the Hutchins family, said she is confident that a New Mexico jury will be able to understand the complexities of the case, which could go to trial within two years. 21