{"id":33127,"date":"2024-10-08T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33127"},"modified":"2024-10-31T21:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T02:20:37","slug":"movie-armorer-on-alec-baldwins-film-rust-pleads-guilty-to-gun-charge-in-separate-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33127","title":{"rendered":"Movie armorer on Alec Baldwin’s film ‘Rust’ pleads guilty to gun charge in separate case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SANTA FE, N.M. — The weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer<\/a> by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film \u201cRust” pleaded guilty Monday to a separate criminal charge of carrying a gun into a licensed liquor establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed<\/a> agreed to change her plea to guilty on the charge in exchange for a reduced sentence of 18 months supervised probation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge T. Glenn Ellington approved the agreement that allows Gutierrez-Reed to begin probation while serving out an 18-month prison term at a New Mexico state penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the \u201cRust\u201d case, prosecutors blamed Gutierrez-Reed for unwittingly bringing live ammunition onto the movie set and for failing to follow basic gun safety protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gutierrez-Reed shuffled into the Santa Fe courtroom Monday in a beige jumpsuit, handcuffs and ankle shackles to change her plea to guilty and waive her right to trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI’d just like to apologize to the court and thank you for your judgment today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case stems from evidence that a few weeks before \u201cRust\u201d began filming in October 2021, Gutierrez-Reed carried a gun into a downtown bar in Santa Fe where firearms are prohibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey said Gutierrez-Reed filmed herself in the bathroom of the bar with a handgun \u2014 explaining how she snuck in the prohibited firearm in a video that was obtained when authorities searched the armorer’s phone during the \u201cRust\u201d investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gutierrez-Reed was convicted in March at trial of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Hutchins. She has an appeal of that conviction pending in a higher court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer for \u201cRust,\u201d was pointing a gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal for the film when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed an involuntary manslaughter case against Baldwin<\/a> halfway through a trial based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense. Morrissey has since asked the judge to reconsider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under terms of her plea agreement, Gutierrez-Reed is prohibited while on probation from possessing firearms, consuming alcohol or drugs and must pay $180 in fees while submitting a sample of her DNA to a criminal database and completing an addiction treatment program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense attorney Jason Bowles said the agreement makes it possible for Gutierrez-Reed to be released from prison as soon as June 2025 to complete probation in Arizona without getting an additional felony conviction on her record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before being led away, Gutierrez-Reed blew kisses toward the court gallery where her mother, Stacy Reed, was seated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reed said she was grateful her daughter can begin to fulfill new parole requirements prior to release from prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019s not gotten a fair shake from the beginning,\u201d said Reed, who traveled from Arizona for the hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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