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Alec Baldwin, Rust crew member to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in fatal shooting | CBC News

Alec Baldwin, Rust crew member to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in fatal shooting | CBC News

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A New Mexico prosecutor on Thursday charged actor Alec Baldwin and movie armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the Rust film set in October 2021.

Halyna Hutchins was killed in the October 2021 incident, which has also led to several lawsuits

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Actor Alec Baldwin is shown in New York on May 21, 2019. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed when Baldwin fired a prop gun on the film set of Rust in October 2021. (Evan Agostini/Invision/The Associated Press)

A New Mexico prosecutor on Thursday charged actor Alec Baldwin and movie armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the Rust film set in October 2021.

Assistant director David Halls reached a plea deal in the case, prosecutors said.

Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when the gun went off, killing her and wounding the director, Joel Souza.

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