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Alec Baldwin’s horrified reaction after being told Halyna Hutchins died revealed in police video following accidental shooting on Rust set
supports HTML5 videoThe moment Alec Baldwin was told that Halyna Hutchins had died after he accidentally shot her has been revealed in police footage. The 30 Rock actor discharged a prop gun on set of western movie Rust in Santa Fe, New Mexico last October, accidentally shooting cinematographer Hutchins and director Joel Souza. Hutchins died from her injuries at the age of 42 while Souza recovered after receiving hospital treatment. Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office has now released all files relating to its ongoing investigation into the fatal shooting of Hutchins, including video footage of the moment Baldwin learned she had died. The short clip shows the 64-year-old actor sitting at a table with two police investigators when one says: ‘I have some unfortunate news,’ to which Baldwin immediately replies: ‘What?’ and looks up from his phone. ‘She didn’t make it,’ the officer said. Baldwin immediately froze in shock and covered his mouth with his hand before shooting back in his seat exclaiming: ‘No!’ He then touched his chest and clasped his head before asking if he could be excused to call his wife Hilaria. It is then that Baldwin was famously pictured talking on the phone and crying outside the police station. Days after the shooting, the actor reportedly urged the police to explore claims that a box of dummy bullets went missing from the set and then reappeared a while later with live rounds in it.‘The point is, I have always maintained that this is an accident of negligence,’ Baldwin reportedly told Detective Alexandra Hancock in a phone call. Also released in the police files was a video of Baldwin talking to officials in an interview after the shooting, explaining that, as a rehearsal, he expected ‘a cold gun with
