The case against Baldwin had already been diminishing. “The truth about what happened will come out and the questions that we have long sought answers for will be answered,” the lawyers, Jason Bowles and Todd Bullion, said in a statement.
READ MORE: ‘Rust’ filming to resume after Alec Baldwin shooting lawsuit settled Gutierrez-Reed’s attorneys said that they “fully expect at the end of this process that Hannah will also be exonerated.” It wasn’t immediately clear whether charges could be refiled, nor whether the charge would also be dropped against Gutierrez-Reed. Prosecutors didn’t immediately comment on the case. An FBI forensic report found the weapon could not have fired unless the trigger was pulled. “We are pleased with the decision to dismiss the case against Alec Baldwin and we encourage a proper investigation into the facts and circumstances of this tragic accident,” Baldwin’s attorneys Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro said in a statement.īaldwin and the film’s weapons supervisor, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, were both charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting.īaldwin was pointing a pistol at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when the gun when off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.īaldwin has said the gun went off accidentally and that he did not pull the trigger. (AP) - Prosecutors in New Mexico plan to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film “Rust,” Baldwin’s attorneys said Thursday.
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