It is a sad gesture that Alec Baldwin has not finished hearing about: when he thought he was out of the woods in the death of the director of photography of his last film, on which he had fired a bullet lost, the actor was actually still under investigation by the FBI, which eventually released a damning report on his version of the facts.
A report which has also led the Santa Fe police not to lift the criminal charges against him. Indeed, the federal police investigators have highlighted proof that the actor supported on the trigger of the weapon that killed the young mother, while he has been repeating since day one that this is not the case. Except that according to the experts, no bullet could have come out if he had simply played with the weapon as he claimed from the beginning.
The weapon, a Colt .45, is one of those which is triggered only by pressing the trigger, and which cannot empty itself. The FBI’s findings have been handed over to the Santa Fe police who will decide whether criminal charges should ultimately be assigned to the actor or not. He said he would cooperate with the police and hopes that no charges will be brought against him.
In this accident, which occurred in October on the set of the film Rust, Alec Baldwin had not been the only one in question: the young gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez Reed had also been under the yoke of an investigation for having filled the gun with real bullets and not blank bullets as she should have done. according to officials. The young woman had meanwhile turned to her supplier, accusing him of having lied to her about the bullets, but is still one of the main suspects by the FBI, in particular because of strange messages where she declared to have “desire to shoot live ammunition” on set.
Alec Baldwin, meanwhile, has spoken only once in public to discuss this case. In this interview, given to American television, he only said “neither guilty nor responsible” of the death of the young woman. An affirmation which had not really pleased the family of the deceased. Her father had notably affirmed that Hilaria’s husband was “partly responsible“for shooting his daughter.