Jury finds Rust armorer guilty of involuntary manslaughter

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury through the four person have you reached a verdict yes all right and do you wish to read the verdicts sure okay I would start with a count one okay you both of them will the defendant please stand we finally defendant Hannah Gutierrez guilty of involuntary

Manslaughter as charge in count one we find the defendant Hannah guz not guilty tampering with evidence instruction come to all right thank you you may be seated let me get those forms retrieve those forms from you I’m going to do what’s called polling the jury

What I need to put on the record is that this is your individual verdict okay I’m going to remand you and the reason why I’m going to remand you is you are now convicted and so um and this is a death it’s in uh uh criminal

Negligence but it’s still a death and so uh deputies you’re going to take her into custody and we will set a sentencing date what is the best uh what do what do we want to look like on that and we need an order of remen do we uh

Council in terms of the sentencing date yes at at at the Court’s convenience will be available um there are two weeks in May that I’m unavailable those are the last two weeks of May Mr B do you have do you have time before may we have

Time in April okay sure all right okay all right anything else before the court nothing from the state your honor no all right thank you we’re in a recess

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer for the film Rust, has been convicted for her role in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. A New Mexico jury found Gutierrez-Reed, who was responsible for ensuring that all firearms on the set were safe, guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

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20 comments

  2. Not surprised. Glad they dropped the tampering because they had no solid evidence just ‘heresay’

  11. It would be absurd to allow an actor to have any responsibility on providing assurance that the gun was safe. Actors have their mind elsewhere, there are numerous distractions, the process is stop start over many hours with indeterminate pauses. Her job was to effectively act as the actors eyes and ears, to provide assurance the gun is safe, she failed.

  17. Logically you’ve got to ask how live bullets get into a film prop gun. Who supplied the blank bullets for the gun? Who put the bullets into the gun. Blanks for movies are totally different to live rounds. Any weapon user would know the difference. The person responsible for loading the gun given to the actor must have been the one who loaded the gun. This woman was in charge of this. Unless there is another reason and someone else did it or the gun was used elsewhere for target shooting beforehand. Was the gun cylinder fully loaded with 6 live bullets? . We are not being given the real story or reason behind this. It probably is a question of her being a scapegoat.

  19. Hardly suprising in a country still living with eighteenth century gun laws. Having any live rounds available to the general public is insanity, hence the huge firearm death rate in the US.

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