SANTA FE, N.M. — The weapons supervisor within the deadly taking pictures of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western movie “Rust” pleaded responsible Monday to a separate legal cost of carrying a gun right into a licensed liquor institution.
Film armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed agreed to alter her plea to responsible on the cost in trade for a lowered sentence of 18 months supervised probation.
Decide T. Glenn Ellington accepted the settlement that permits Gutierrez-Reed to start probation whereas serving out an 18-month jail time period for involuntary manslaughter within the deadly taking pictures of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins at a New Mexico state penitentiary.
Within the “Rust” case, prosecutors blamed Gutierrez-Reed for unwittingly bringing stay ammunition onto the film set and for failing to comply with fundamental gun security protocols.
Gutierrez-Reed shuffled into the Santa Fe courtroom Monday in a beige jumpsuit, handcuffs and ankle shackles to alter her plea to responsible and waive her proper to trial.
“I might identical to to apologize to the court docket and thanks in your judgment at this time,” she mentioned.
The case stems from proof that a couple of weeks earlier than “Rust” started filming in October 2021, Gutierrez-Reed carried a gun right into a downtown bar in Santa Fe the place firearms are prohibited.
Particular prosecutor Kari Morrissey mentioned Gutierrez-Reed filmed herself within the toilet of the bar with a handgun — explaining how she snuck within the prohibited firearm in a video that was obtained when authorities searched the armorer’s cellphone throughout the “Rust” investigation.
Gutierrez-Reed was convicted in March at trial of involuntary manslaughter within the deadly taking pictures of Hutchins. She has an attraction of that conviction pending in the next court docket.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer for “Rust,” was pointing a gun at Hutchins throughout a rehearsal for the movie when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.
In July, Decide Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed an involuntary manslaughter case towards Baldwin midway by way of a trial primarily based on the withholding of proof by police and prosecutors from the protection. Morrissey has since requested the choose to rethink.
Underneath phrases of her plea settlement, Gutierrez-Reed is prohibited whereas on probation from possessing firearms, consuming alcohol or medicine and should pay $180 in charges whereas submitting a pattern of her DNA to a legal database and finishing an habit remedy program.
Protection legal professional Jason Bowles mentioned the settlement makes it potential for Gutierrez-Reed to be launched from jail as quickly as June 2025 to finish probation in Arizona with out getting a further felony conviction on her report.
