Actor Alec Baldwin will each be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter, prosecutors said Thursday.
If you don’t know the tragic story, Halyna was shot and killed on the set of Rust in October of 2021 when Alec pulled the trigger of a prop gun. Shortly after the shooting, Alec made a statement about her death. The transcript of what happened in the moments after the shooting were also revealed a short time later.
The family of Halyna Hutchins, who was the film’s director of photography, thanked prosecutors for their decision.
“It is a comfort to the family that, in New Mexico, no one is above the law,” the family said in a statement released by attorney Brian J. Panish.
Baldwin has maintained he was not aware the gun he fired during a rehearsal contained a live round. His attorney called the prosecutors’ decision “a terrible miscarriage of justice.”
“This decision distorts Halyna Hutchins’ tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice. Mr. Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun — or anywhere on the movie set,” attorney Luke Nikas said.
Assistant director David Halls has also allegedly accepted the terms of a plea deal to plead guilty to a charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon.
