Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on Alec Baldwin's film "Rust," was given the maximum sentence of 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    This is a WORK place accident, not an at home or social thing.

    She was staying after work and shooting live ammo out of the guns used on set…

    There is evidence someone was also drinking because she had empty containers in her vehicle along with the live ammo.

    They didn’t need to prove she was drinking to find her guilty, but she said she was still “hungover” when she did it.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/weapons-expert-was-likely-hungover-set-fatal-rust-shooting-prosecutors-rcna89230

    I’m not sure how much experience you have with alcoholics, but when they say they’re “hungover” they’re usually still legally drunk too. Often they had a drink first thing after waking up to take off the edge.

      • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
        1·
        8 months ago

        She (correctly) beat an evidence tampering charge on reasonable doubt, because the person Reed handed a white baggie of powder to, threw it away - after the shooting happened.

        If she’s actively using narcotics (why else have it on her?) and working as a set armorer, that is a massive dereliction of duty irrespective of drug laws. She needs treatment absolutely, but as set armorer it is your responsibility ultimately, and there was live ammo that fired on set that day. That is her responsibility, Baldwin’s culpability for firing/“pointing” the gun remains to be determined.