When Baldwin fired the gun, law enforcement officials said, it struck and killed the film’s cinematographer and wounded its director. 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. My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna.”The plot of the film Baldwin was shooting, Rust, hinges on an accidental killing and its aftermath. Suddenly the movie set — on Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe County — became the scene of a real killing, and a real investigation. Juan Rios, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said on Friday afternoon that the investigation “remains active and ongoing” and that “detectives entered the movie set today and continue to interview potential witnesses”.

Source: The Telegraph October 23, 2021 22:26 UTC