Jason Bowles, Attorney for Hannah Gutierrez Reed Today’s warrant is a major step towards answering those questions and we commend the Sheriff’s Office and their lead investigator on their continuing tireless work to find the truth. The questions of who introduced the live rounds onto the set and why are the central questions in the case. In keeping with the early findings and concerns of our own internal investigation, which were echoed by a detailed report in the LA Times, we also hope that there will be further investigation into the important detail about a new ammunition box seen on set the day of the shooting. We trust that the FBI will now compare and analyze the “live rounds” seized from the set to evidence seized in the search warrant to conclusively determine where the live rounds came from.
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The Sheriff’s Office has taken a huge step forward today to unearth the full truth of who put the live rounds on the Rust set, by executing a search warrant on PDQ Arm & Prop, owned by Armorer-Mentor, Seth Kenney. Bowles sent the following statement to KRQE News 13 on Tuesday night: Jason Bowles, an attorney for Gutierrez Reed, called the search for evidence in Albuquerque a huge step forward toward determining the source of ammunition on the “Rust” set.
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Gutierrez Reed “stated the guns were checked on set, however she ‘didn’t really check it too much’ (the firearm), due to it being locked up at lunch,” according to the new affidavit.Īnother movie crew member - the prop master for “Rust” - told investigators that ammunition was purchased from at least three sources for the production. The final round was added after lunch when the gun was cleaned. 21 but struggled to add a sixth round before a lunch break, when the revolver was locked in a truck. Investigators say that the armorer on the film, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, loaded the gun with five dummy rounds on Oct. Tuesday’s search-warrant affidavit contains some new details about the handling and loading of the gun that killed Hutchins before it was handed to Baldwin by an assistant director. They have said it is too soon to determine whether charges will be filed, amid independent civil lawsuits concerning liability in the fatal shooting. Investigators have described “some complacency” in how weapons were handled on the movie set where Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer and wounded another person. Industry experts have said live rounds should never be on set. Investigators initially found 500 rounds of ammunition at the movie set on the outskirts of Santa Fe - a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and what appeared to be live rounds. A sheriff’s office spokesman declined to elaborate on details in the search warrant. Kenney could not be reached independently for comment. 29 that “a couple years back, he received ‘reloaded ammunition’ from a friend,” and that the ammunition stood out in his memory because a star-themed company logo, according to an affidavit from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office that is leading the investigation. Seth Kenney and his business PDQ Arm & Prop, LLC provided movie-prop ammunition and weapons to the “Rust” production.
Baldwin was told the revolver was “cold” and had no live rounds, investigators say. 21 killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and left a projectile lodged in the shoulder of director Joel Souza, for doctors to later remove. The search took place after a provider of firearms and ammunition to the ill-fated movie production for “Rust” told investigators that he “may know” where live rounds came from, describing ammunition he received from a friend in the past that had been “reloaded” by assembly from parts.Ī revolver fired by Baldwin during a “Rust” rehearsal on Oct.
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