Alec Baldwin's film props, where the Ukrainian cameraman died, filed a lawsuit against the ammunition supplier

Hannah Gutierrez-Reid, a 24-year-old gunsmith and prop maker on the set of Alec Baldwin's Rust, is suing the film's ammunition supplier. She claims the company is responsible for the accidental death of cameraman Galina Hutchins by providing a box of live rounds mixed with blanks. Writes about it Insider.

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The lawsuit is against PDQ Arm & Prop, LLC and its founder, Seth Kenny.

Gutierrez-Reed has previously claimed that someone "sabotaged" the shoot using live ammunition.

Police are still investigating an incident in which Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin shot and killed Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on the set of the film while rehearsing for a scene with a firearm he was told did not contain live ammunition.

Gutierrez-Reed, the daughter of industrial gunsmith Tell Reed, performed a dual role on the set - gunsmith and props. She faced an onslaught of scrutiny after the shooting.

But in a 24-page lawsuit filed by Jason Bowles, Gutierrez-Reid's attorney points out that Kenny was the film's "weapons mentor" - he supplied the guns and ammunition used in it.

The lawsuit, which includes screenshots of contentious communications between Kenny and Gutierrez-Reed throughout filming, alleges that Kenny provided a box of ammo that was marked "blank" on the morning of the shooting. But live ammunition also turned out to be in it - they were used during the fatal shooting.

The lawsuit also alleges that after the shooting, Kenny attempted to put the blame squarely on Gutierrez-Reed by interfering with the investigation and prompting the prop man to go to the police and "tell them everything."

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Hours after the shooting, Kenny called Troy Teska, an Arizona police officer, who was told that Hannah, according to the lawsuit, had most likely "fucked up." In the following days, Kenny allegedly called or texted Teska 20 times.

The document says that he even asked Teske to send him some bullets of Tell Reed (Hannah's father) to match them with those used on the site and prove Gutierrez-Reed's guilt.

Teske sent Kenny photographs of the Tell Reed ammunition, which bear the distinctive Starline Brass markings, a kind of "stamp" - the same markings were found on a round cartridge case recovered from the scene. Kenny reportedly said, "Yes, that's evidence of an accidental death." He tried to link live ammunition found on the set to Gutierrez Reid.

However, Tell Reed claims that Kenny had access to hundreds of Starline Brass rounds after Kenny took a can of rounds from him on the set of the previous film. In November, Tell Reed publicly accused Kenny of never returning hundreds of rounds of ammunition, now missing after they worked together on a separate project.

According to the lawsuit, Gutierrez-Rid is seeking a jury trial and damages. Kenny denies any wrongdoing in the incident.

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In November, a New Mexico judge issued a search warrant to the sheriff at PDQ Arm & Prop. Kenny, along with Gutierrez-Reed and assistant director David Halls, featured in two previous lawsuits filed in this case.

In addition to blaming Kenny and PDQ Arm & Prop, the lawsuit also describes how Video Village's system malfunctioned on the day of filming after most of the crew quit the day before due to security and financial issues.

The lawsuit alleges that the faulty video program meant that anyone who was not in the church where the scene was filmed could not see the scene, limiting Gutierrez-Reid's ability to safely control the use of weapons.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• American actor Alec Baldwin accidentally killed one person and injured another on the set of a film in Albuquerque. The deceased, 42-year-old photographer and cinematographer Galina Gatchins, was a Ukrainian.
• On October 21, on the set of the film, Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin accidentally killed the cameraman and wounded the director. The Ukrainian woman was killed. Sources of claim that she could have filmed her own death.
• Court records show that weapons were readily available gunsmith and film assistant director.
• Sources claim that on the set was in complete chaos with weapons.
• Read the stories of the worst tragedies and accidents that occurred directly on the set in our material.

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