Alec Baldwin fatally shoots cinematographer on movie set, injures director as prop gun misfires

Actor Alec Baldwin by accident killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded writer-director Joel Souza when he fired a prop gun on the set of a film, a sheriff’s workplace in New Mexico advised the New York Times.
“We’re trying to determine right now how and what type of projectile was used in the firearm,” Juan Rios, a spokesman for the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, advised NYT.

Halyna was airlifted to Albuquerque’s University of New Mexico Hospital, however couldn’t survive, and Souza is presently receiving emergency care at one other hospital.
Production has been stopped on the film, which is a western known as Rust. Baldwin is each producing and starring in it. The movie was going to shoot till early November in keeping with a information launch from the New Mexico Film Office.
This aerial video picture supplied by KOAT 7 News, reveals Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Officers responding to the scene of a deadly unintentional taking pictures at a Bonanza Creek, Ranch film set close to Santa Fe, N.M. Thursday, October 21. (Photo: AP)
As per the Associated Press, The Santa Fe New Mexican reported that Baldwin was seen Thursday exterior the sheriff’s workplace in tears.

Rust, set in Eighties Kansas, follows a 13-year-old boy who has to maintain himself and his youthful brother after his mother and father die. He goes on the run together with his grandfather (Baldwin) after he’s sentenced to be hanged for by accident killing a rancher.