During a press conference on Wednesday, Mitchell and her lawyer Gloria Allred spoke to reporters about the complaint viaSkyNews. Mitchell said, “I’ll never forget what happened on the set ofRustthat day.”
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“I relive the shooting and the sound of the explosion from the gun over and over again,” Mitchell continued. “I’m depressed, I don’t feel safe, I feel like at any moment anything can happen to me and to those that I care about standing close to me. I don’t have a sense of guardrails in my life to keep me safe. I am frightened of the future. This violent tragedy has taken away the joy of my life. I have also lost a new friend who was an extraordinary and rare person and future collaborator. Halyna was a woman who spoke the same language of film as I did and I have been robbed of my friend.”
Allred also made a statement, telling reporters, “In our lawsuit, we allege that on October 21, 2021, Alec Baldwin fired a loaded gun killing Halyna Hutchins, injuring Joel Souza and causing physical and emotional injuries to Mamie Mitchell, the script supervisor who was standing in the line of fire when the gun went off.”
Baldwin’s rep did not comment on the lawsuit.
“Days before the shooting there were warning signs that there were dangerous conditions related to guns on the site, a camera operator had reported two gun discharges during a rehearsal in a cabin,” Allred said, adding, “Important industry safety protocols designed to ensure firearms would be safely used were ignored and actions were taken that were against all industry norms.”
Allred also addressed Baldwin, saying, “In our opinion, Mr. Baldwin chose to play Russian roulette when he fired a gun without checking it and without having the armorer do so in his presence. His behavior and that of the producers onRustwas reckless.”
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Mitchell also said in her complaint that theRustscript didn’t call for a gun to be discharged, according to the court documents.
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The complaint also alleged that the cost-cutting measures on the film, including hiring an armorer who was not experienced, intentionally endangered the lives of everyone on set.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was the armorer on the set of the film and was apparently also named as a defendant in the complaint.
Svetnoy wasn’t physically injured when Baldwin fired a gun that had a live round, fatally shooting Hutchins, but he alleged in the complaint that he was close enough that “discharge materials from the blast struck [him] directly.”
“Simply put there was no reason for a live bullet to be placed in that .45 Colt revolver or to be present anywhere on the Rust set, and the presence of a bullet in that revolver posed a lethal threat to everyone in its vicinity,” the complaint stated.
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On Oct. 27, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said during apress conferencethat investigators had discovered “500 rounds of ammunition” on the film set, which included “a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and what we are suspecting are live rounds.”
Gutierrez-Reed previouslybroke her silenceabout the shooting on set, saying in a statement via her lawyers that “untruths that have been told to the media,” and that she was “devastated and completely beside herself over the events that have transpired.”
Her attorneys claimed Gutierrez-Reed had “no idea where the live rounds came from” and said she was under pressure on the set from working two jobs as both armorer and props assistant.
Gutierrez-Reedtold deputiesthat she had checked the rounds inside the firearm Baldwin used the day of the shooting to make sure the gun was loaded with “dummies,” not real bullets, and that she locked up the guns in a safe on the prop truck,according to the search warrantaffidavit. She also said no live ammunition was ever kept on the Rust set.
“No, obviously it isn’t,” Mendoza said. “That was a live round that struck and killed Ms. Hutchins so that’s not an accurate statement as far as I’m concerned.”
Filming onRusthas been halted and an investigation into the Oct. 21 incident is ongoing. No charges have been filed at this time.
source: people.com
