In the case of camerawoman Halyna Hutchins who was killed on set, he is no longer charged. Alec Baldwin celebrates this with a post. There are critical comments about this.
Hollywood star Alec Baldwin posted a very pixelated photo on Instagram showing him with his wife Hilaria. He writes that he owes everything he has to her – and Luke. This probably means Luke Nikas, one of his lawyers. Under the post, many fans congratulate the 65-year-old. A special investigator for the New Mexico Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday that the charges against Baldwin would be dropped. Others are critical.
The charges involved the fatal shooting of the western “Rust” in October 2021 at a film ranch in Santa Fe. Lead actor and producer Baldwin was holding a gun during a rehearsal for a scene when a shot went off. This killed the 42-year-old camerawoman Halyna Hutchins.
Users are now complaining that Baldwin does not mention Hutchins in his social media post. Someone writes, “Today you could have made a statement about Halyna, honoring her memory and perhaps establishing a bursary in her name.” Also to read: “I don’t know if he’s guilty or not, so I’ll leave that to the court! We must not forget that a young woman lost her life, a man lost his wife and a child his mother.”
“If you weren’t a millionaire…”
This person says, “You didn’t win anything – someone died.” Some conflated the dropped charges with Baldwin’s celebrity status: “Bullshit! Sorry if you weren’t a millionaire you would have been jailed for years! You still pulled the trigger on her and whatever happened after that.. .she died because of it!”
Baldwin is now – at least for the time being – avoiding criminal prosecution for involuntary manslaughter. But he could be prosecuted again later. It will be further investigated, as there are still many unanswered questions. In addition, new facts have become known in the past few days, which the investigative team must further investigate and forensically analyze. Details are not known.
So someone writes, “Alec, this really isn’t the time to appear smug in public or to be victorious. Or to receive any form of congratulations. A young woman has died. You were not found innocent in court, the charges were merely dropped. Regardless of whether anyone is proven guilty, Halyna Hutchins is still the sole victim in this case.”
“But it’s not me”
To this day it is unclear how the live ammunition got to the shooting location. There was a real bullet in the Colt. Baldwin said in a TV interview: “Somebody put live ammunition in a gun, live ammunition that shouldn’t have been on the premises. Someone is responsible for what happened and I can’t say who that is , but I’m not.”
Filming on “Rust” stopped immediately after the incident in October 2021, and has now started again. A user pleads with Baldwin: “Don’t pick up another gun until you’ve learned how to use it. In the future, it would also make sense for you to make your own dummy ammo and load it into your gun yourself. It only takes a few minutes minutes and can save a life.”
