'Rust's Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Pleads Not Guilty as Trial Is Set for December: A Timeline of the Tragedy

etonline.com:

Halyna Hutchins was tragically killed on the set of in October 2021 when the prop gun Alec Baldwin was holding suddenly discharged, striking and killing the cinematographer and injuring director Joel Souza.

In the months since tragedy struck in New Mexico, lawsuits were filed, criminal charges were filed — then dropped, for Baldwin — and allegations were made, including that the film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, consumed alcohol and smoked marijuana during filming of the Western.Then, on June 29, 2023, prosecutors filed legal documents in the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, claiming Gutierrez-Reed «transferred a 'small bag of cocaine'» to a witness it has been in contact with.

Prosecutors allege the incident happened on Oct. 21, 2021 after the embattled armorer returned from her interview at the police station on the day of the fatal shooting.Furthermore, prosecutors allege that the transfer of evidence «strongly support the charge that Hannah transferred the cocaine to avoid prosecution and prevent law enforcement from obtaining evidences directly related to Hannah's handling of the firearm and the circumstances of the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins.»Gutierrez-Reed has now entered a plea in her case and a trial date has been set.

In a statement to ET, Gutierrez-Reed's lawyer, Jason Bowles, questioned how prosecutors were able to get «a secret witness» to appear 20 months later.«With no actual corroboration or evidence?