April 17, 2024

Rust Armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison For Involuntary Manslaughter

Following recent trials, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. By: Kritchanon Tan Kian Wei

Mexico - Rust armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced on Monday April 15 to the maximum term of 18 months in prison, following her involuntary manslaughter charge for loading a live bullet into actor’s Alec Baldwin’s gun on the set of the Western film Rust, indirectly killing the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

The accident occurred in October 2021, when Baldwin fired a live round whilst rehearsing with a revolver on the film’s set, injuring director Joel Souza and killing Hutchins in the process.

In court, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer said to Gutierrez-Reed: ““You alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon. But for you, Ms. Hutchins would be alive, a husband would have his partner, and a little boy would have his mother.”

Gutierrez-Reed previously begged the court for probation, saying: “When I took on ‘Rust,’ I was young and I was naive but I took my job as seriously as I knew how to,” she said. “Despite not having proper time, resources and staffing, when things got tough I just did my best to handle it… I beg you please don’t give me more time. The jury found me in part at fault for this god-awful tragedy. But that doesn’t make me a monster. That makes me human.”

Additionally, her father and fellow armourer Thell Reed added: “It’s a horrible tragedy for that wonderful lady Halyna to lose her life. Also it would be a tragedy to put my daughter Hannah in the penitentiary for that.”

Deeming the incident a “serious violent offence” by Gutierrez-Reed, the judge also limited Gutierrez-Reed’s potential credit for good behaviour to no more than 15% of her 18-month sentence, or about 2.7 months.

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