The jury at the manslaughter trial of Rust gunmaker Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was shown a photo of the ammunition cart used on the set where Alec Baldwin killed a cameraman.
Both Reed and Baldwin, 65, are charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins.
She is accused of ignoring gun safety procedures by handing Baldwin the gun, which was loaded with a live round.
Marissa Poppell, a crime scene technician with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, described the chaotic way ammunition was stored on set.
The jury was shown a photo taken by Poppell of the props cart which looked very disorganized, littered with dummy rounds mixed in with a live round.
The jury at the manslaughter trial of Rust gun guard Hannah Gutierrez-Reed (pictured center) was shown a photo of the ammunition cart used on the set where Alec Baldwin killed cameraman Halyna Hutchins.
Among the other photos shown to the jury was a gun belt assigned to Baldwin.
Poppell said there were “multiple rounds of multiple calibers all over the entire top portion of this cart.”
At the bottom were more boxes of bullets, a single loose bullet lying in a corner and “plastic guns, gun belts and miscellaneous paperwork.”
In total, Poppell said she found 255 dummy rounds on set, including in the prop cart.
About 50 of them simply remained loose and lay at the bottom of boxes or on the floor of the prop cart.
Poppell said a gun they found on set — not the one Baldwin used — appeared to have jammed because the wrong type of ammunition had been put into it.
There were five bullets visible in the belt, with the second from the left being a bullet and the others being dummies.
Another photo showed a bag of ammunition with a can of Red Bull wedged in the side by bullets.
The jury was then shown a photo taken by Marissa Poppell, a crime scene technician with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, of the prop truck looking very disorganized and littered with fake bullets next to a live round.
Alec Baldwin said he killed Hutchins accidentally and denied pulling the trigger. The jury was shown unedited footage of the filmmaking process in which Baldwin practiced drawing a gun while sitting in a church pew
The disorganized cart showed dummy rounds mixed with one live round, accidentally killing Hutchings
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer of the western film Rust, was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (pictured) during a rehearsal outside Santa Fe in October 2021 when the gun went off, killing her.
Earlier Thursday, new videos played during the trial showed Gutierrez-Reed handing the gun used by Baldwin to accidentally kill cameraman Hutchins, then telling officers how “scared” she was to the crew.
Prosecutors painted a picture of a “disorganized” and “chaotic” Reed who mixed live rounds with dummy bits on set and used cocaine the night before the shooting.
Her attorneys told the jury in response that she became the scapegoat for Baldwin’s carelessness and that he should never have pointed the gun at the victim.
Baldwin was rehearsing a scene for Rust – his western film – when he accidentally shot Hutchins.
He claims he thought the gun was loaded with blanks and was assured it was safe, but says he didn’t even pull the trigger.
One of the prosecution’s evidence photos can be seen above. Authorities found six rounds of ammunition on the film set at locations that included a box, a gun belt and a bandolier worn by Baldwin
Gutierrez-Reed had a live round with mock rounds on set, prosecutors told the jury Thursday in her manslaughter trial.
Court footage of Alec Baldwin’s bullets with a bullet found among the dolls
Five other live rounds were later found on the set by investigators.
Gutierrez-Reed sat in court, wearing a gray blazer and white top, looking impassive as District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer read the indictment to the jury. Opening statements were postponed Thursday due to a juror’s delay.
“We believe that it was the defendant’s negligence and failure that led to both the acts that contributed to Ms. Hutchins’ death and the live rounds being brought onto the set,” prosecutor Jason Lewis said in the state’s opening speech.
Gutierrez-Reed’s attorneys have previously claimed that live rounds arrived on set from an Albuquerque-based dummy round supplier.