Alec Baldwin shooting: Lawyer suggests potential sabotage on ‘Rust’ set.

[Petrushka]

Hollywood report has a great account of what all happened: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/rust-armorer-fair-shot-trial-1235823841/

She had hired to play two roles for them to save money. She was told on the 17th she was spending too much time being an armorer and that she should spend more time with dealing with props. On the 21st when shooting started, she was clearly in the role of Armorer:

"The prosecution will say there’s another reason Gutierrez-Reed wasn’t able to do her job properly: drugs. Prosecutors intend to introduce texts from Gutierrez-Reed’s phone that indicate she was using alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during production. On Oct. 17, the night she asked Pickle to approve more armorer days, Gutierrez-Reed was communicating with a driver on the film who asked if she was still up and if he could stay in her hotel room in Santa Fe before getting back to work in the morning. “I’m up, I’ll roll one,” Gutierrez-Reed replied. “I always gotta stay up for a bit when I get back anyways.”

In other words, she had a dual role and was informally asked to spend more time on the non-armorer task. This is way different than saying her job as Armorer had finished. No way they could keep shooting the movie if this was in fact the case with no other person playing that role.

The more details, the worse it looks.

 

[amirm]

It does indeed. In her trial, they had another worker who stayed in the same motel as her on the stand. She said the Armorer gave her a bag of white powder to hold for her when the police came! The other person threw it away in the hallway but said that it was clear to her what it was.

 

[Justdafactsmaam]

Hollywood report has a great account of what all happened: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/rust-armorer-fair-shot-trial-1235823841/

She had hired to play two roles for them to save money. She was told on the 17th she was spending too much time being an armorer and that she should spend more time with dealing with props. On the 21st when shooting started, she was clearly in the role of Armorer:

"The prosecution will say there’s another reason Gutierrez-Reed wasn’t able to do her job properly: drugs. Prosecutors intend to introduce texts from Gutierrez-Reed’s phone that indicate she was using alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during production. On Oct. 17, the night she asked Pickle to approve more armorer days, Gutierrez-Reed was communicating with a driver on the film who asked if she was still up and if he could stay in her hotel room in Santa Fe before getting back to work in the morning. “I’m up, I’ll roll one,” Gutierrez-Reed replied. “I always gotta stay up for a bit when I get back anyways.”

In other words, she had a dual role and was informally asked to spend more time on the non-armorer task. This is way different than saying her job as Armorer had finished. No way they could keep shooting the movie if this was in fact the case with no other person playing that role.

What she was doing was working props. When guns were being used she functioned as the armorer which pays substantially more. Most armorers only do the job of armorer. On most movies that is an on call job not a full time position. She wanted to work full time so she worked two positions as needed at different pay rates. There is nothing wrong with someone doing that.

 

[amirm]

Yeh, the only concerning thing is that her supervisor was complaining about her trying to have private training sessions with Baldwin. And that she should cut that out and work on her prop duties.

 

[Justdafactsmaam]

Yeh, the only concerning thing is that her supervisor was complaining about her trying to have private training sessions with Baldwin. And that she should cut that out and work on her prop duties.

Sounds like she was angling for more money

 

[amirm]

Hurried but still decent video on where the live rounds may have come from:

I agree with them that Seth Kenny, the owner of prop shop, needed to be properly investigated. As a reminder, it took them a month to decide to get a warrant to search his place!

 

[amirm]

And oh, the defense attorney for the Armorer says in that video that they plan to open her case with the same judge today and ask for dismissal.

 

[JSmith]

Rust armorer pleads guilty to gun charge in separate case

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed changed her plea in exchange for a reduced sentence for carrying a gun into a bar

www.theguardian.com

The weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film Rust pleaded guilty Monday to a separate criminal charge of carrying a gun into a licensed liquor establishment.

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

JSmith

 

[amirm]

"Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey said Gutierrez-Reed filmed herself in the bathroom of the bar with a handgun – explaining how she snuck in the prohibited firearm in a video that was obtained when authorities searched the armorer’s phone during the Rust investigation."

Person with so little common sense should have never been put in charge of armor in a set or otherwise....