'Rust' Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Receives Max Sentence For Fatal On-Set Shooting
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Prosecutors argued that Gutierrez-Reed's lack of remorse should result in the maximum 18 months sentence.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film “Rust.”
The sentence, reported by the Associated Press, was handed down by Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer in a Santa Fe, New Mexico, court on Monday morning, over a month after Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty.
Jurors determined Gutierrez-Reed was partially responsible for the shooting, finding she improperly loaded live ammunition into a prop gun, which actor Alec Baldwin was holding when he fired the bullet that killed Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza.
The jury heard testimony from over 30 witnesses and deliberated for over two hours before sharing their decision. Gutierrez-Reed was acquitted of evidence tampering.
Prosecutors had asked for Gutierrez-Reed to get the maximum sentence of 18 months in prison, pointing to the armorer’s “complete and total failure to accept responsibility for her actions.”