On Wednesday night, Actor Alec Baldwin appeared to be defending himself on social networks, claiming that he was told the wrong things about the gun he fired on set, among other things.
Baldwin didn't tweet in his own words, but rather chose to share articles that put blame on others than himself for the incident, which killed crew member Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza.
Before he handed a revolver that he had declared “cold” to Alec Baldwin on the set of the film “Rust,” Dave Halls, an assistant director, told a detective he should have inspected each round in each chamber, according to an affidavit. But he did not. https://t.co/flCONhaEqO
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 27, 2021
He had previously tweeted a similar article on Oct. 22, 2021, reproduced below:
— AlecBaldwin(HABF) (@AlecBaldwin) October 23, 2021
As the investigation moves along, more and more facts are coming to light. It appears, for example, that the same gun in Baldwin's possession on the set which fired that fatal round was used earlier that day for target practice with live ammo.
It's still not clear, however, how it happened that this live ammo wasn't properly replaced with blanks before being given over to Baldwin.
Many people on set are at least partially blaming the head armorer, Hanna Gutierrez-Reed, saying that she was not experienced enough for such a large responsibility, and that she had famously committed previous safety violations on this set and on others previously. She certainly, at the time of the fatal incident, should have been responsible for seeing to it that there were no live rounds in the firearm before it went on set.
Baldwin himself has been accused of improper behavior on his part regarding the lack of firearm safety on that set. It is common knowledge in the industry that one should always assume a gun is loaded with live rounds and act accordingly. Also, it's considered a huge faux pas to aim the gun at people at random or jokingly, which is what Baldwin apparently did.
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