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US filmworkers mourn colleague shot by prop gun

25 October 2021
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2021-10-25 09:51

Around 200 film crew workers gathered on Saturday for a candlelight vigil in memory of Halyna Hutchins. Hutchins was killed when actor Alec Baldwin misfired a prop gun on a movie set. Production on “Rust” was stopped after the shooting.

Court records indicate that an assistant director, Dave Halls, grabbed a prop gun off a cart and handed it to Baldwin, indicating incorrectly that the weapon didn't carry live rounds by yelling “cold gun.” When Baldwin pulled the trigger, he unwittingly killed Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza, who was standing behind her inside a wooden, chapel-like building.

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