Sabotage? Rust Armorer Claims She Was Led To Believe That She Loaded The Gun With Dummy Rounds
The lawyers of “Rust” armorer are claiming the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins could have been sabotage from a disgruntled crew member as Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was in charge of all weapons on the film’s set, believed she was loading the gun with dummy rounds.
Jason Bowles and Robert Gorence who are representing Hannah say that their client has been negatively and falsely portrayed in the media.
“I believe that somebody who would do that would want to sabotage the set, want to prove a point, want to say that they’re disgruntled, they’re unhappy,” Bowles said.”And we know that people had walked off the set the day before.”
They believe that somebody might have switched the dummy rounds with live rounds.
“We’re assuming somebody put the live round in that box,” Bowles said. “Which, if you think about that, the person who put the live round in the box of dummy rounds had to have the purpose of sabotaging this set.”
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In a statement to KOB, her lawyers said,
“Hannah Gutierrez Reed would like to add a few points to the continuing narrative on the tragic events surrounding the shooting on the “Rust” set. First, Hannah was incredibly safety conscious and took her job very seriously from the moment she started on October 4th. She did firearms training for the actors as well as Mr. Baldwin, she fought for more training days and she regularly emphasized to never point a firearm at a person. Never in a million years did Hannah think that live rounds could have been in the “dummy” Round box. Who put those in there and why is the central question. Hannah kept guns locked up, including throughout lunch on the day in question, and she instructed her department to watch the cart containing the guns when she was pulled away for her other duties or on a lunch break. Hannah did everything in her power to ensure a safe set. She inspected the rounds that she loaded into the firearms that day. She always inspected the rounds. She did again right before handing the firearm to Mr. Halls, by spinning the cylinder and showing him all of the rounds and then handing him the firearm. No one could have anticipated or thought that someone would introduce live rounds into this set.”