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An animated video has been created which re-enacts the moment that Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed by a gun Alec Baldwin was holding. Take a look below:
The video, which was made by DK Global and released by the lawyers acting on behalf of the Hutchins family, shows Baldwin point a gun at Hutchins during the set-up for the filming of a scene for the western in New Mexico on 21 October.
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The gun is then seen discharging a bullet, killing Hutchins and wounding the director, Joel Souza.
Baldwin has said he was pointing the gun at Hutchins at her instruction and it went off without him pulling the trigger.
The attorneys said in the video that Baldwin had turned down training for the kind of gun draw he was doing when he shot Hutchins.
It said industry standards call for using a rubber or similar prop gun during the set-up that was happening, and there was no call for a real gun.
Now, Halyna Hutchins' family are suing Alec Baldwin and the movie’s producers for wrongful death with a lawsuit filed in New Mexico in the name of Hutchins’ husband, Matthew Hutchins, and their son, Andros.
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At least three other lawsuits have been filed over the shooting, but this is the first directly tied to one of the two people shot.
Attorney Brian Panish said that the 'reckless conduct and cost-cutting measures' of Baldwin and the film’s producers 'led to the death of Halyna Hutchins'.
Investigators have described “some complacency” in how weapons were handled on the Rust set. They have said it is too soon to determine whether charges will be filed.
Baldwin said he does not believe he will be criminally charged in the shooting.
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The film’s script supervisor and its lead camera operator, both of whom were standing a few feet away when Hutchins was shot, each filed a lawsuit over the trauma they went through.
And the film’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who was named as a defendant in those lawsuits and blamed by some for the shooting, filed her own suit saying an ammunition supplier created dangerous conditions by including live ammunition in a box that was supposed to include only dummy rounds.
In an interview with ABC News in December, Baldwin said he felt incredible sadness over the the shooting, but not guilt.
He said: “Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but it’s not me."
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He went on to add that Hutchins had asked him to point the gun just off camera and toward her armpit before it went off.
“I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin said. “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.”
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