Alec Baldwin shoots and kills woman with a prop gun on a movie set

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From Kenzo's NBC San Diego link:

'...An assistant director unwittingly handed Alec Baldwin a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to use in
the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer, the Associated Press reports, citing court records
released Friday.

“Cold gun,” the assistant director announced, according to a search warrant filed in a Santa Fe court.

Instead, the gun was loaded with live rounds, and when Baldwin pulled the trigger Thursday on the set of a Western,
he killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Director Joel Souza, who was standing behind her, was wounded,
the records said.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office obtained the warrant Friday so investigators could document the scene at the
ranch outside Santa Fe where the shooting took place. They sought to examine Baldwin’s blood-stained costume
for the film “Rust," as well as the weapon that was fired, other prop guns and ammunition, and any footage that
might exist.

The gun was one of three that the film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez, had set on a cart outside the wooden structure
where a scene was being acted, according to the records. Assistant director Dave Halls grabbed the gun from the
cart and brought it inside to Baldwin, unaware that it was loaded with live rounds, a detective wrote in the search
warrant application.

It was unclear how many rounds were fired. Gutierrez removed a shell casing from the gun after the shooting, and she
turned the weapon over to police when they arrived, the court records say...'

Cheap labour or incompetence?