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Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer convicted in the tragic on-set shooting death of a cinematographer during the filming of Alec Baldwin’s film “Rust,” has been released from a New Mexico prison.
Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March 2024 for her role in the incident, where a live round discharged from a prop gun that Baldwin was handling in 2021. The shooting also injured director Joel Souza.
The “Rust” armorer has an appeal of the conviction pending in a higher court. Jurors acquitted her of allegations she tampered with evidence in the “Rust” investigation.
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She was released from the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility after serving her full 18-month sentence.
Gutierrez-Reed signed out of prison in Grants to return home to Bullhead City, Arizona, on parole related to her involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The terms of parole include mental health assessments and a prohibition on firearms ownership and possession.
Prosecutors argued that Gutierrez-Reed had unwittingly brought live ammunition onto the set of “Rust” and failed to follow basic gun safety protocols.
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She is also being supervised under terms of probation after pleading guilty to a separate charge of unlawfully carrying a gun into a licensed liquor establishment.
Gutierrez-Reed carried a gun into a downtown Santa Fe bar, where firearms are prohibited, weeks before “Rust” began filming.
Meanwhile, Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter after a gun he was holding fired on the set of “Rust” in New Mexico, killing cinematographer Hutchins. Hutchins died Oct. 21, 2021.
In July 2024, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning the charge cannot be brought against the actor again.
His case was dismissed mid-trial after the judge found that the prosecution had withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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