{"id":20287,"date":"2021-10-27T23:02:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T03:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=20287"},"modified":"2021-10-27T23:02:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T03:02:56","slug":"alec-baldwin-shooting-criminal-charges-may-be-filed-prosecutor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/10\/27\/alec-baldwin-shooting-criminal-charges-may-be-filed-prosecutor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin shooting: Criminal charges may be filed, prosecutor says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Criminal charges may still be filed over last week’s fatal shooting on a film set in New Mexico, US police say.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot dead cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded a director on the set of the Western film Rust.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“All options are on the table,” District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said of any potential charges. “No one has been ruled out at this point.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Investigators also said there was “some complacency” around safety on the set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Presenting the department’s initial findings, Sante Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said: “We suspect there were other live rounds found on set.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We’re going to determine how those got there, why they were there, because they shouldn’t have been there,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

He said police had recovered 600 pieces of evidence so far – including three firearms and 500 rounds of ammunition.<\/div>\n
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Sheriff Mendoza also said a “lead projectile” had been removed from the shoulder of wounded director Joel Souza and handed over as evidence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I think the facts are clear – a weapon was handed to Mr Baldwin. The weapon [was] functional and fired a live round killing Ms Hutchins and injuring Mr Souza,” he said about the killing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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