The one one who really went to jail for the 2021 taking pictures dying of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is free simply weeks after the tragedy suffused Alec Baldwin starring indie Western premiered after which promptly disappeared in a cloud of field workplace mud earlier this month.
Based on the New Mexico Division of Corrections, the movie’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was granted parole earlier this week and launched on Might 23. Having served the state statute required 85% of her 18-month sentence and acquired additional marks for good habits and the completion of a drug rehab program, data present Gutierrez-Reed having signed out of the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility on Friday morning. She shortly headed to her dwelling in Bullhead Metropolis, Arizona the place she’s going to serve out her parole.
A really state of affairs particular a part of that parole is that Gutierrez-Reed can’t have contact with Hutchins’ widower, baby or some other member of the filmmaker’s household.
Hannah Gutierrez Reed Credit score: Santa Fe Sheriff’s Departent
Santa Fe County Corrections
The stepdaughter of famed film gun coach Thell Reed, the comparatively inexperienced Gutierrez-Reed was charged with involuntary manslaughter and proof tampering out of Hutchins’ dying from a gun in Baldwin’s hand going off. Even earlier than Gurierrez-Reed was charged in January 2023, the prosecution claimed the armorer was accountable for dwell rounds ending up on the Rust set. In a manufacturing below intense funds and time crunches, and movie crews quitting, these dwell rounds received into Baldwin’s Eighties Colt .45 reproduction that that fired throughout rehearsals on the Bonanza Creek set, putting Hutchins and director Joel Souza.
Along with her parole stretching from Might 23, 2025 to Might 23, 2026, the twentysomething Gutierrez-Reed has to get a job, in addition to undergo a curfew, and psychological well being evaluation as among the situations of her parole. She can also’t personal weapons, has to satisfy usually with a parole officer and comply with digital monitoring. Truly, Gutierrez-Reed is below what’s referred to as twin supervision. That shakes down as a 12 months for her involuntary manslaughter convictions and a 12 months and a half for a distinct cost of “unlawfully” coming into a firearm banning Santa Fe bar earlier than Rust went into manufacturing with a gun on her.
On March 6, 2024, a Sante Fe jury discovered the Rust armorer responsible of involuntary manslaughter within the deadly October 21, 2021 taking pictures. Regardless of the state’s greatest effort, the jurors’ choice was cut up as they determined the defendant was not responsible of proof tampering. Six weeks later, Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months bars.
Alec Baldwin on the Rust set, 2021
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Baldwin by no means ended up spending a second in jail, nor even a full week earlier than a jury in his personal case final summer season. The media frenzy matter was tossed out 4 days in by the choose as a consequence of proof suppression by the prosecution and native cops. All appeals have been dropped, although the 30 Rock actor and now actuality star in January filed paperwork to pursue a civil rights violations lawsuit in opposition to the particular prosecutors.
Gutierrez-Reed continues to have attraction of her conviction shifting by way of the New Mexico courts. Her protection lawyer Jason Bowles didn’t reply Saturday to request for remark from Deadline on his consumer’s launch from jail.
Discovering a brand new cinematographer in Bianca Cline, the ultimately completed Rust debuted at a Polish movie competition in December 2024. The film lastly discovered U.S. distribution by way of Falling Ahead Movies, with a brief lived home theatrical run beginning on Might 2.
