Rust armor­er in Alec Bald­win film sen­tenced to 18 months in prison

The armor­er for the film Rust has been sen­tenced to 18 months in prison, about two and a half years after a fatal shoot­ing occurred on the film’s set.
Han­nah Gutier­rez-Reed, 27, had “repeat­ed­ly” failed to main­tain prop­er firearm safe­ty, which led to the death of cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er Haly­na Hutchins, 42, pros­e­cu­tors claimed in the case. The 2021 shoot­ing occurred when actor Alec Bald­win was hold­ing a .45 Colt cal­iber F.lli Piet­ta sin­gle-action revolver dur­ing a rehearsal on set when the gun fired and hit Hutchins in the chest.
“You alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon,” Judge Mary Mar­lowe Som­mer said.

Han­nah Gutier­rez-Reed, left, and para­le­gal Carmel­la Sis­neros await sen­tenc­ing in state dis­trict court in San­ta Fe, New Mex­i­co, on Mon­day, April 15, 2024. Reed, the armor­er on the set of the West­ern film Rust, was sen­tenced to 18 months in prison for invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter in the death of cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er Haly­na Hutchins, who was fatal­ly shot by Alec Bald­win in 2021. (Eddie Moore/The Albu­querque Jour­nal via AP, Pool)

Pri­or to her sen­tenc­ing, Gutierrez-Reed’s defense con­tend­ed that their client was a “con­ve­nient scape­goat” in this shoot­ing, and asked for her to be giv­en pro­ba­tion. Her attor­neys also cit­ed her “com­plete la …