‘Rust’ Armorer’s Lawyers: Live Round May Have Been Placed In Baldwin’s Gun To ‘Sabotage The Set’
On NBC’s “Today” show, the attorneys for “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed floated the idea that someone might have planted a live round intentionally in the gun that actor-producer Alec Baldwin used when he fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie asked the two attorneys, both of whom are former federal prosecutors, about Gutierrez, “How does she explain how a live round got into that gun?”
Attorney Jason Bowles answered, “I think that’s the most pivotal question in this case and I think that is going to be the question that we want the FBI, want the sheriff, want the district attorney to all address. We know they’re going to address it; we both are former federal prosecutors. The FBI is super-competent. That is the central question to this case, which is, how did a live round get on set and who put that live round on the set?”
“She loaded the gun. Did she load a live round?” Guthrie asked.
Bowles: Well, we don’t even know that, and let me tell you why, Savannah. There was a box of dummy rounds, and the box is labeled “dummy.” Hannah did take from that box — which she, by all accounts should have been able to rely on — that contains only dummy rounds. She loaded rounds from that box into the handgun only later to find out there is a — she had no idea, she inspected the rounds — that there was a live round. Now we don’t know, however, whether that live round came from that box, we’re assuming it did, we’re assuming somebody put the live round in that box, which if you think about that, the person who put the live round in the box of dummy rounds had to have the purpose of sabotaging the set. There is no other reason you would do that: that you would mix that live round in with the dummy rounds.
Guthrie: Is that your theory of the case, that someone intentionally placed a live round into a box of dummies for the purpose of it ending up in a weapon that would be used on set?
Bowles: We don’t have a theory yet; we are investigating and we’re trying to get all the facts. That’s one of the possibilities, admittedly, that you have a round that’s supposed to contain only dummy bullets, prop ammunition, that have a projectile but are incapable
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