Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SANTA FE, N.M. — “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed told detectives that she brought dummy rounds to set that were left over from a previous film, and that had been loose in a bag in her car.
Gutierrez Reed is on trial for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins, who was killed by a live round fired from Alec Baldwin‘s gun.
Prosecutors have alleged that Gutierrez Reed was responsible for bringing a box of dummies that included multiple live rounds.
On Tuesday, jurors were shown a police interview from November 2021, in which Gutierrez Reed said that she had used dummies on “Rust” that were left over from “The Old Way,” a Nicolas Cage film she had worked on a few weeks earlier. “I went back through a bag that I had,” Gutierrez Reed said in the interview. “This bag had a bunch of loose dummies in it.
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