Los Angeles, Aug 14 : The FBI has completed their investigation and concluded that Alec Baldwin must have fired the gun in a normal manner during the shooting of the Spaghetti Western movie ‘Rust’ and killed Halyna Hutchins in the ghost town of Bonanza City, New Mexico. Contrary to Alec Baldwin’s previous assertions In contrast to his previous assertions, the FBI investigation into the fatal shooting in the ‘Rust’ case states that the gun used in the incident could not have discharged without pulling the trigger as reported by Deadline.
Baldwin previously claimed in an interview in December with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, saying that he did not engage the trigger on the gun.”The trigger was not pulled,” he said.”I did not pull the trigger.”
Baldwin who was the film’s director and the film’s lead actor was shot by cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set last year.He claimed he thought he was operating the “cold gun” with no live ammunition.However when the gun fired the live bullet hit Hutchins and killed her.The director of the film, Joel Souza, was also injured in the shoot.
The FBI’s accident-related discharge tests confirmed that the revolver with a single action required the pull of a trigger to start firing.
When the hammer is in the quarterhalf-cock and quarter-cock positions, the gun “could not be fired without the pull of the trigger,” the report accessed by Deadline stated.
The report also stated that the gun was unable to explode “without the trigger pull of the trigger after the hammer is hit directly.” This kind of reaction is common for this kind of revolver as stated in the report.
In the meantime, Santa Fe County Sheriffs are working with the Suffolk County Police Department of New Mexico and the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office to process and reveal Baldwin’s phone numbers, which were nominated for an Oscar.
Once the office has reviewed the OMI files and Baldwin’s phone files, they’ll forward the final case file titled ‘Rust’ to the Santa Fe District Attorney’s office to make final charges.
“The District Attorney’s office has been working with Suffolk County PD and Baldwin’s lawyer to obtain the records of phone calls.
When Suffolk County PD completes its assistance to the agency and then sends the documents to New Mexico law enforcement, our detectives will analyze the phone records to determine if they are evidence,” Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said.
The fatal accident occurred on the 21st of October The fatal incident occurred on the 21st of October.
Baldwin who was a multiple award-winning star of films such as “Talk Radio”, ‘The Hunt for the Red October The Departed’ and ‘The Hunt for Red October’ was given the all-clear from the First AD to discharge a prop gun, which claimed Hutchins his life.
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