ONE CLICK SHOOTING MOVIE
Suddenly the movie set - on Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe County - became the scene of a real killing, and a real investigation. Baldwin was shooting, “Rust,” hinges on an accidental killing and its aftermath. My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna.” “I’m fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I am in touch with her husband, offering my support to him and his family. Baldwin, 63, said in a statement Friday on Twitter. “There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours,” Mr. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe and later released. Joel Souza, 48, the film’s director, was shot in the shoulder area and wounded he was taken to Christus St. The results were deadly: Halyna Hutchins, 42, the film’s director of photography, was struck in the chest and flown to the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, where she died, officials said. The affidavit did not specify what kind of ammunition the gun had been loaded with. Baldwin, according to the affidavit, which was made as part of a search warrant application. The assistant director “did not know live rounds were in the prop-gun” when he gave it to Mr. Baldwin fired the gun, law enforcement officials said, it struck and killed the film’s cinematographer and wounded its director - and raised new questions about firearms safety on film sets. Baldwin, and, according to an affidavit signed by Detective Joel Cano of the Santa Fe County sheriff’s office, yelled “ Cold Gun!” - which was supposed to indicate that the gun did not have any live rounds in it. In 2020, the parish recorded 19.SANTA FE - On a ranch in northern New Mexico, where the cottonwoods and the dusty foothills have formed the backdrop of Westerns since the 1950s, Alec Baldwin was filming a new movie on Thursday afternoon when his character, an outlaw, needed a gun.Īn assistant director grabbed one of three prop guns that the film’s armorer had set up outside on a gray cart, handed it to Mr. There have been more than two dozen domestic violence murders this year. reported earlier in the week, domestic violence related murders had reached record levels. The attack Friday night comes after an especially violent few days where people were killed by someone they were in a relationship with. Investigators said Plaza tried to get into the home through a front door and when he was blocked, broke in through a bedroom window. Friday on Pecan Tree Drive, off of Burbank near Bluebonnet.ĭeputies said they were told a man shot his estranged wife before shooting himself in an apparent murder-attempted suicide. Plaza shot himself and, though hospitalized as of Saturday morning, was not expected to survive.ĭeputies released new information about the attack Saturday morning. BATON ROUGE - A man shot and killed his estranged wife and then shot himself in a Burbank area home, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's deputies said.