Hannah Gutierrez-Reid, the firearms supervisor on the Alec Baldwin movie “The Last,” has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for the infamous on-set shooting that killed the film’s director of photography.
He was sentenced Monday in New Mexico state court to 18 months in prison.
Judge Mary Marlow Sommer admonished Gutierrez-Reed for her “recklessness in the face of knowledge” during the hearing, saying: You are the only one who turned a safe weapon into a deadly weapon. ”
Last month, a jury found 26-year-old Gutierrez-Reed guilty of manslaughter in the death of “The Last” cinematographer Halina Hutchins. Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine for manslaughter, but was acquitted of evidence tampering.
Hutchins, 42, died in 2021 after authorities said Baldwin fired live ammunition from a prop gun while rehearsing a scene in New Mexico on the set of a Western movie. The film’s director, Joel Souza, was injured in the shooting.
Prosecutors had argued that Gutierrez-Reed, the film’s armorer, was reckless and failed to take basic steps to ensure the safety of firearms on set.
Sommer told Gutierrez-Reed on Monday that she “doesn’t take responsibility” and that “it was your lawyer who had to tell you in court that you were remorseful.”
“But for you,” the judge said, Hutchins “will be alive, your husband will have a partner, and your little boy will have a mother.”
Baldwin is also charged with manslaughter. The 66-year-old Academy Award winner has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to stand trial in July.
The film’s production team announced that filming would resume in 2022 after Baldwin reached an agreement with Hutchins’ family. Filming on the project began again last year in Montana.
Updated at 2:25pm EDT
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