Prosecutors are trying to make convicted Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed testify at Alec Baldwin's upcoming trial, but Gutierrez-Reed has allegedly said that she wants to see Baldwin "in jail." According to court documents, reported HuffPost, the comment about wanting Baldwin "in jail" was made during a recorded prison phone call.
Gutierrez-Reed was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in March 2024 and later sentenced to 18 months in prison for the fatal shooting on the set of Rust in 2021. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died on October 21, 2021, after Baldwin fired a prop gun that contained a live bullet.
Alec Baldwin also faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter and his trial is scheduled for July. Speaking to ABC News shortly after the shooting, Baldwin said he didn't "know what happened on that set."
"I don't know how that bullet arrived in that gun," he said at the time.
"Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be on the property," he also told the outlet at the time. "Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can't say who that is, but I know it's not me."
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Gutierrez-Reed was the armorer, or weapons supervisor, on the film's set. Prosecutors accused Gutierrez-Reed of being irresponsible when it came to gun safety on set, reported the Associated Press. Live ammunition is not allowed on set.
New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer told Gutierrez-Reed that she was "the armorer, the one that stood between a safe weapon and a weapon that could kill someone."
"You alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon. But for you, Ms. Hutchins would be alive, a husband would have his partner and a little boy would have his mother," the judge continued.
Some have argued that Baldwin still played a role in Hutchins' death, and should therefore be held accountable. Though Baldwin has said that he did not know the gun had live rounds in it, some have said he should've checked the gun.
At the Boulder International Film Festival in 2022, Baldwin spoke about how he is not a safety expert, and has relied on safety experts to determine whether or not a gun is safe on set.
“All my career, without incident, I’ve relied on the safety experts there to declare the gun is safe and hand me the gun,” he said at the time.
In addition to allegedly saying that she wants to see Baldwin "in jail," summaries of recorded prison phone calls also documented Gutierrez-Reed allegedly calling members of the jury “a–holes” and claiming that she is "mad that the whole thing got pinned on her," as per People.
