Thursday, October 21, 2021

Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that killed a woman

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The veteran actor Alec Balwin fired a prop gun while shooting a film and accidentally killed a woman and wounded a man. The fatality is the director of photography of the film,  42-year-old Halyna Hutchins. The wounded man is Joel Souza, 48, the film's director. 

As indicated in her website, Ms Hutchins was from Ukraine and spent her childhood in a Soviet army installation in the Arctic Circle. She studied journalism in Kyiv, and film in Los Angeles, and was named a "rising star" by the American Cinematographer magazine in 2019.


Alec Baldwin


The unfortunate incident happened on the set of "Rust" in Bonanza Creek Ranch, a popular filming location in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Baldwin is playing the lead in a 19th-century western. The incident is being investigated and no charges has been made as of this writing.





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