Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed will be allowed to have a gun at home, a New Mexico judge ruled today. In the first hearing for the criminal case over the fatal October 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, Judge Mary Marlow Sommer decided that 25-year-old Reed can have “a firearm at her resistance” as a one of the conditions of her release in the case.
The ruling came Friday in the virtual hearing as Reed’s attorney Jason Bowles detailed threats his client had received after private information on her was released by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s office soon after the tragedy on the Rust set.
Citing a stalker, and Reed having to get a restraining order at one point, Bowles said his client wanted a gun at home for “self-protection.” After objecting to the request and citing “Hannah’s sloppy mishandling of firearms” that led in part to Hiutchins’ death, D.A.
Mary Carmack-Altwies offered Reed get some “peppery spray or a bat” as an alternative form of protection. Basically ignoring the suggestions, Judge Sommer granted the request for a gun, but made a point of noting it was only for inside Reed’s residence.
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