Rust film armourer sentenced to 18 months in prison
By Helen Bushby
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.
The armourer, 26, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March.
She was found not guilty of a second charge – tampering with evidence over the 2021 shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.
The sentence Ms Gutierrez-Reed received is the maximum possible.
Mr Baldwin, 65, also faces a manslaughter trial in July. He has said he is not guilty of the charges.
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.
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.
“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.
