{"id":149438,"date":"2021-10-22T15:45:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=149438"},"modified":"2021-10-22T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:53:56","slug":"update-american-actor-alec-baldwin-fatally-shoots-woman-with-prop-gun-on-movie-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=149438","title":{"rendered":"Update: American actor Alec Baldwin fatally shoots woman with prop gun on movie set"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/images\/news\/2021022_America1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Alec Balwin is a co-producer of the film Rust, which was being filmed in New Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;LOS ANGELES, Oct 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; <\/strong>A woman has died and a man has been injured after actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a New Mexico film set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police in the US state said Baldwin discharged the weapon during filming for the 19th Century western Rust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman was taken to hospital but died of her injuries. The man, the film&#8217;s director, was receiving emergency care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson for Baldwin said the incident involved the misfiring of a prop gun with blanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman has been named as Halyna Hutchins, 42, who was working as director of photography. The man being treated is Joel Souza, 48, the film&#8217;s director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police are still investigating the incident at Bonanza Creek Ranch, a popular filming location, and no charges have been filed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, a Santa Fe sheriff spokesman said Baldwin had spoken with detectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He came in voluntarily and he left the building after he finished his interviews,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to her personal website, Hutchins was from Ukraine and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle. She studied journalism in Kyiv, and film in Los Angeles, and was named a &#8220;rising star&#8221; by the American Cinematographer magazine in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the International Cinematographer&#8217;s Guild said Hutchins&#8217; death was &#8220;devastating news&#8221; and &#8220;a terrible loss&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said sheriff&#8217;s deputies were dispatched to Bonanza Creek Ranch at around 13:50 local time after receiving an emergency call about a shooting on set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baldwin is a co-producer of the film and plays its namesake, an outlaw whose 13-year-old grandson is convicted of an accidental murder. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alec Balwin is a co-producer of the film Rust, which was being filmed in New Mexico &nbsp;LOS ANGELES, Oct 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A woman has died and a man has been injured after actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a New Mexico film set. Police in the US state said Baldwin discharged the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":149440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}