Convicted 'Rust' Armorer Recorded Saying She Wants Alec Baldwin 'In Jail': Court Documents
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Both prosecutors and defense attorneys have requested Hannah Gutierrez-Reed's testimony during the actor's trial on involuntary manslaughter.
Convicted “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s reported comments about Alec Baldwin could complicate the actor’s upcoming trial on an involuntary manslaughter charge.
Though prosecutors filed a motion to force Gutierrez-Reed to testify in Baldwin’s case and his lawyers have placed her on their most recent witness lists, court documents filed in April and recently obtained by HuffPost claim that the firearm specialist was recorded during a prison phone call saying she wanted Baldwin “in jail.”
The alleged comments were outlined in prosecutors’ objection to Gutierrez-Reed’s request for a conditional discharge, which would have offered her probation instead of a prison sentence.
Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months in prison in March after being found to have negligently and unknowingly placed live ammunition in a prop gun being used on the set of the film “Rust” in 2021.
Baldwin was handling the firearm when it discharged, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.