Workplace Safety Regulator Says Management Failed in Fatal Shooting by Alec Baldwin

Workplace Safety Regulator Says Management Failed in Fatal Shooting by Alec Baldwin
Santa Fe County Deputy Levi Abeyta, (L), watches as expert witness for the defense Frank Koucky III as Koucky testifies in the involuntary manslaughter trial of movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, at the First Judicial District Courthouse in Santa Fe, N.M., on March 5, 2024. Jim Weber/Pool/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP
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SANTA FE, N.M.—Complaints by a movie weapons supervisor to managers went unheeded as she sought more time and resources to fulfill safety duties on the set of the Western movie “Rust,” where actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer, a workplace safety investigator testified Tuesday at trial.

Defense attorneys for armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed called the inspector among their first witnesses to refute allegations of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal in October 2021.