Investigators said Halls did not know there were live rounds in the gun when he gave it to Baldwin. According to the documents, Halls yelled "cold gun," indicating it didn't have any live rounds.
Halls had handed the gun to Baldwin, who is starring in the movie and is one of its producers, investigators said in court documents filed last week. "He advised he should have checked all of them, but didn't, and couldn't recall if she spun the drum," the documents said. Gutierrez also told investigators that no live ammo is ever kept on set.Īssistant director Dave Halls told investigators that he only saw three rounds, which were not live, when Gutierrez showed him the gun after lunch.
Gutierrez said another woman got the guns from the safe and handed them to her once lunch was over, according to the documents. Gutierrez said only a few people knew the combination and could access the safe, but did not specify.
When the crew took a lunch break, the firearms were moved to a safe inside a prop truck on the set, the document said. In a search warrant issued Tuesday, investigators said Hannah Gutierrez, the armorer for the set, told police that she "checked the 'dummies' and ensured they were not 'hot' rounds" on the day of the incident. And number 3 is a dummy round, and a dummy round is simply mocked up or designed to look like an actual bullet." "Number 2 would be what we call a blank, which means it's got powder in it, it makes the noise, it gives the flash, but there's no projectile in it. That's going to go out and harm somebody," Gagliano said.
That's something that has powder inside of a casing, and it usually has a lead bullet or projectile at the end. "There's a live round, which should never be there. On CBSN, CBS News security and law enforcement analyst James Gagliano provided a general description of the three types of bullets that police believe were on the set. Santa Fe officials on "Rust" shooting investi.