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A forensic report released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which details the fatal shooting in the “Rust” movie set revealed that Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger for the gun to fire.
Movie producer
and actor Mr. Baldwin believed he was handling a “cold gun” without live ammo
on set in October 2021, Washington Times reports. It turned out that the gun
brandished by Baldwin had live ammo, and bullets were released during the
firing that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Did Alec Baldwin pull the trigger that killed cinematographer Hutchins?
“The trigger
wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger,” Mr. Baldwin said in a Dec. 2021
interview with ABC’s George Stephanopolous.
Authorities
have determined that the gun used in the fatal shooting on the “Rust” movie
could not have fired without pulling the trigger, according to an FBI forensic
report obtained Friday by ABC News. Baldwin was holding the gun at the time
Hutchins was fatally shot.
According to
ABC News Baldwin shot Hutchins on the set of the Western, which he was
producing and starring in, last year. Joel Souza, the film’s director was
wounded in the shooting.
Baldwin pulled the trigger that killed Hutchins - FBI forensic report
The FBI
reports showed that accidental discharge testing determined that the firearm
used in the shooting – a .45 Colt (.45 Long Colt FIli Pietta single-action revolver
– could not have fired without the trigger being pulled, according to NBC News.
The gun “could
not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger,” with the hammer in the
quarter and half-cock positions, the report stated.
With the
hammer fully cocked, the gun “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger
while the working internal components were intact and functional,” the report
stated.
With the
hammer de-cocked on a loaded chamber, the gun was able to detonate a primer “without
a pull of the trigger when the hammer was struck directly,’ which is normal for
this type of revolver, the report stated, according to ABC News.
The forensic
report is part of a criminal investigation into the on-set shooting led by
Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said Thursday it
received the report and other FBI documents related to the shooting earlier
this month, according to ABC News.
The
documents have been reviewed by the New Mexico Office of the Medical
Investigator, which has classified Hutchins' death as an accident, a postmortem
report obtained by ABC News shows.