{"id":27563,"date":"2024-04-16T08:04:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=27563"},"modified":"2024-04-16T08:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:04:03","slug":"rust-movie-armourer-hannah-gutierrez-reed-sentenced-to-18-months-for-halyna-hutchins-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/04\/16\/rust-movie-armourer-hannah-gutierrez-reed-sentenced-to-18-months-for-halyna-hutchins-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Rust movie armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sentenced to 18 months for Halyna Hutchins’ death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the movie set weapons handler who loaded a gun for actor Alec Baldwin before it fired and killed a cinematographer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The armourer, 26, was\u00a0found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She was found not guilty of a second charge – tampering with evidence – over the 2021 shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The sentence Gutierrez-Reed received is the maximum possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Baldwin, 65, also faces a manslaughter trial in July. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, who handed down the sentence on Monday in a New Mexico court, said Gutierrez-Reed’s actions constitute a serious, violent offence, committed in a physically violent manner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“You alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon,” Judge Sommer said, addressing the armourer. “But for you, Ms Hutchins would be alive. A husband would have his partner and a little boy would have his mother.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Hutchins, 42, was killed after a gun Mr Baldwin used in a rehearsal fired a live round on the set of the Western in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prosecutors said Gutierrez-Reed had failed to ensure the weapon was only loaded with dummy rounds – fake bullets used to look and sound like real ones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“This case is about constant, never-ending safety failures that resulted in the death of a human being,” prosecutor Kari T Morrissey said during closing arguments in the trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gutierrez-Reed was “negligent”, “careless” and “thoughtless” when she failed to notice that live bullets had mixed with dummy rounds in a box of ammunition on set, Ms Morrissey told the jurors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One of those bullets was in the firearm that was used by Mr Baldwin, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jurors deliberated for three hours before returning their verdict in March. Ms Hutchins’ parents and her sister said they were “satisfied” with the verdict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Their statement added: “We look forward to the justice system continuing to make sure that everyone else who is responsible for Halyna’s death is required to face the legal consequences for their actions.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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