Alec Baldwin facing charges for Rust shooting: Santa Fe DA says actor is ‘possible defendant’
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Alec Baldwin indicted in Rust shooting: Sante Fe prosecutor says she’s ‘ready’ to press charges against FOUR people and actor is a ‘possible suspect’ after finally handing over his cell phone
- Santa Fe DA Mary Carmack-Altwies asked the State Board of Finance for $317,000 to sue four people for the Rust shooting
- She said in her letter that one of the possible defendants is Alec Baldwin
- Baldwin accidentally shot and killed cameraman Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film on October 21, 2021
- The prosecutor’s request was made quietly on August 30
- Since then, Baldwin has welcomed his seventh child and listed his Hamptons complex for $29 million
- The star has always insisted he is not responsible for Hutchins’ death
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New Mexico prosecutors have indicated they can charge Alec Baldwin for the fatal shooting of cameraman Halyna Hutchins on the set of his film Rust last year after the actor handed over his cell phone to be taken as evidence.
In a letter to the state’s financial council, asking for funding to pursue the high-profile case, Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said she was “ready” to press charges against four people.
She stopped confirming the charges she planned to file, but said she was “certainly looking into all homicide laws and any gun laws under New Mexico’s criminal code.”
“One of the possible suspects is noted film actor Alec Baldwin,” she wrote.
Carmack-Altwies asked for $635,000 to prosecute the case and said she needed the money to fight well-paid lawyers.
The state agreed to award its office $317,000 to appoint a special prosecutor to take the case further.
The request was quietly submitted on August 30 and recently approved. After it was filed, Baldwin — who welcomed his seventh child with his wife Hilaria last week — put his Hamptons home up for sale.
Alex Baldwin with his wife Hilaria and their children yesterday. The actor may soon face charges in the 2021 fatal shooting, according to documents filed by the Santa Fe District Attorney
He has always maintained that he didn’t pull the trigger and that the fault lies with the stunt managers and prop managers who should have made sure the gun was ‘cold’ – empty of live bullets.
“I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger, no,” he said in an interview about the shooting.
ABC news on Monday said one of the last pieces of evidence prosecutors had been waiting for was Baldwin’s cell phone.
The prosecutor wrote that one of the “last pieces of evidence” her office had been waiting for was Baldwin’s cell phone.