The murder of a Ukrainian woman by Alec Baldwin: complete chaos reigned on the set with weapons

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, a weapons technician on the set of Rust, was the subject of numerous complaints while working as a gunsmith on her previous and first film, The Old Way, reports Dailymail.

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Nicolas Cage, star of the film The Old Way, in which Hannah Gutierrez-Reid worked as a weapons specialist, shouted at her after she fired a gun without warning for the second time: “You just blew my fucking eardrums out!”

A crew member on "The Old Way" said she "put the cast and crew in several unnecessary and dangerous situations" before he said she should be fired.

In an interview with the podcast after filming ended, she said she wasn't sure if she was ready to become the main gunsmith on set.

Two production sources claim that "Rust" gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez-Reid previously gave the child actor a gun without testing it on the set of "The Old Way."

A rookie gunsmith has been named as the person who loaded Alec Baldwin's revolver that killed cameraman Halina Hutchins on the set of Rust.

New to the profession, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who loaded the gun that killed cinematographer Halina Hutchins when Alec Baldwin was shooting on set, has been the subject of numerous complaints about her latest film.

Gutierrez-Reid, 24, upset crew members and star Nicolas Cage with her "dangerous" gun handling on the set of The Old Way, just two months before Rust.

Stu Brumbaugh, a stage manager on “The Old Way,” told TheWrap that the young gunsmith did not follow basic gun safety rules.

He said that after Gutierrez-Reid fired the weapon for the second time in three days without warning, Cage screamed, "Make an announcement, you just blew out my fucking eardrums!"

Brumbaugh told an assistant director on set that Gutierrez-Reed should be fired: “After the second incident, I was furious. We were working too fast. She was new."

After he shared his concerns with his superiors, he learned that The Old Way was the very first film the young woman worked on.

The producer of “The Old Way” denied Brumbaugh’s claims: “I don’t remember such an event happening on our set. I asked my partners the same thing. They said: "The details of some of these stories, particularly as they relate to 'The Old Way,' have been blown out of proportion."

"The Old Way" producer said Gutierrez-Reed worked under the guidance of veteran property owner Jeffrey W. Crowe.

But Brumbaugh and another source who was on set claimed that Gutierrez-Reid "put the cast and crew in several unnecessary and dangerous situations."

Brambo insisted that she violated safety protocols when she entered the set with live ammunition instead of blanks, without making an announcement to the cast and crew.

He claimed that she had pistols under her arms, and that rifles in both hands, which were ready for use, were pointed at people from time to time as she moved around the set. And that she fired the gun twice without warning.

“The key point is that the films' budgets are low, which is why such an inexperienced person was hired for such an important role. “The tragedy is that it all comes down to the producers,” he said.

“This is happening more and more often. Because manufacturers refuse to bring in more experienced people because their fees are higher, they demand that we take our time, and manufacturers don't want to pay. So they hire a new hire who is energetic, wants to work and will do it with fewer demands and without additional people,” Brumbaugh said.

He continued: “The problem is she didn’t get help. I would have at least two more people. In the first film and in the second, she did everything herself. If there had been one more person in this film, the tragedy would not have happened. A second person would inspect the gun and make it safe.”

Brumbaugh explained that he understands how mistakes can be made: “You're being yelled at by your superiors... You're 24 years old, you're energetic and you don't want to get yelled at. So you hurry up and start arming people.”

Sources also told The Daily Beast about Gutierrez-Reid's "unsafe" mistakes on the set of "The Old Way," saying she handed a gun to 11-year-old actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong. She was a little careless with the weapon, swinging it around from time to time. A couple of times she charged the drum and did it in a way that we considered unsafe.

The insider added that they saw her loading the pistol on the pebbled ground, which could be dangerous, before handing the pistol to Armstrong.

“She was reloading the gun on the ground where there were pebbles and stuff,” the source said. “We didn’t see her check everything carefully, we didn’t know if something hit the barrel or not.”

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Gutierrez-Reid herself admitted that she wasn't sure she was ready for the job in an interview after filming The Old Way.

“This was my first time as chief gunsmith. You know, I was really nervous about it at first, and I almost turned down the job because I wasn't sure if I was ready, but it seemed to go very smoothly."

She continued, "The best part of my job is just showing people who are usually scared of guns how safe they can be and how safe guns are if they don't fall into the wrong hands."

In the podcast interview, she also admitted that she thought loading blank guns was the "scariest" thing because she didn't know how to do it, and she turned to her father, legendary gunsmith Tell Reed, for help to overcome her fear.

According to her LinkedIn page, she worked as a videographer for Synth Fire, a California-based news and media company, and documentary filmmaker in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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From March to June 2021, she worked as a gunsmith at the Yellowstone Ranch, but according to the page, she stopped working there three months before filming for the film Rust began in October.

Gutierrez-Reed just recently left Northern Arizona University, where she studied Creative Media and Film from 2017 to 2020.

She was seen for the first time after the fatal incident near her home in Bullhead City, Arizona.

On October 21, a female cameraman was killed and the director was wounded when assistant director Dave Halls handed Baldwin a revolver that Gutierrez-Reed loaded with live rounds into.

A Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office spokesman said: "The investigation remains active and open. Witnesses continue to be interviewed and evidence collected."

In addition to the criminal investigation, the New Mexico Bureau of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating Hutchins' death and may impose civil penalties even if no charges are filed in the case.

“Our state OSHA program is investigating this,” Rebecca Roose, deputy cabinet secretary for the New Mexico Department of Environment, told Deadline.

“The state takes all workplace safety issues very seriously and will work diligently in our investigation into this tragic fatality,” she added.

Crew members on the set of Alec Baldwin's film "Rust" used live ammunition and engaged in an activity called "plinking" hours before Galina Hutchins was killed, reports say. NZHERALD.

Sharon Waxman, founder and CEO of The Wrap, told CNN that one of these shotguns was later handed over to Baldwin, who fired a shot that killed 42-year-old Hutchins and injured director Joel Sousa, citing information from someone with information. from the set.

“There's something the crew like to do called plinking, where they go out into the countryside and shoot at beer cans. use live ammunition. We learned that this happened on the morning of the day that Halina Hutchins was killed," Waxman said.

When asked by The Wrap for comment, "Rust" producers referred to their previous statement sent to media outlets.

“The safety of our cast and crew is the top priority for Rust Productions and everyone associated with the company. While we have not received any formal complaints regarding the safety of weapons or props on set, we will conduct an internal review of our procedures. Production has been stopped for now. "We will continue to cooperate with Santa Fe authorities in their investigation and offer mental health services to the cast and crew during this tragic time," the statement said.

Souza, who was shot in the shoulder, told investigators that the revolver went off when Baldwin trained to draw his weapon, according to affidavits.

According to Souza, Baldwin was "sitting on a bench in the church building and practicing his cross draw."

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Cross draw is when the shooter draws the weapon from the holster on the opposite side of the body from the pulling arm.

Souza said he was looking over Hutchins' shoulder when he heard "a sound like a whip and then a loud bang." He said three people handled the firearms for the filming of the scene - they were checked by the gunsmith and the first assistant director and then handed over to the actor using them.

No charges were filed.

According to numerous reports, in the days leading up to the fatal shooting, at least two accidental shots occurred on the set of the film.

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On October 16, film crew members fired two shots after being told the pistol was "empty."

It is not known if these were live ammunition. No one was injured as a result of the accidental shots.

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 Halina Hutchins, 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.
• Law enforcement is investigating the killing of cinematographer Halina Hutchins by actor Alec Baldwin in an accident on the set of "Rust" court records show that the gunsmith and film assistant director.

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