Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer for the movie Rust who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for actor Alec Baldwin shooting the movie’s cinematographer to death with a prop gun during filming, has again found herself in a New Mexico courtroom thanks to damning evidence found on her cell phone during the Rust investigation.
According to a report at theguardian.com, when investigators searched Gutierrez-Reed’s cellphone during the Rust investigation, they found a video of her with a handgun in the bathroom of a bar. In the self-filmed video, shot a few weeks before the movie’s filming began, she explained how she snuck the prohibited firearm into the establishment.
Gutierrez-Reed originally pleaded not guilty to a charge of carrying a gun into a licensed liquor establishment. But on Monday, she changed her plea to guilty in exchange for a reduced sentence of 18 months supervised probation.
After the sentencing, Gutierrez-Reed addressed the judge, saying, “I’d just like to apologize to the court and thank you for your judgment today.”
Gutierrez-Reed’s plea agreement prohibits her while on probation from possessing firearms, consuming alcohol or drugs and she must pay $180 in fees while submitting a sample of her DNA to a criminal database and completing an addiction treatment program. The agreement makes it possible for Gutierrez-Reed to be released from prison as soon as June 2025 to complete probation in Arizona.
Baldwin initially claimed he didn’t pull the trigger on the gun that fired the fatal shot. Amazingly he made that far-fetched claim despite the fact that cameras reportedly recorded the shooting.
He also faced an involuntary manslaughter charge when he went to trial for the Rust shooting back in July. But the charges against Baldwin were dropped when the judge in the case learned that the prosecution had failed to disclose some important evidence.
“There is no way for the court to right this wrong,” Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer said in dismissing the charges.
That dismissal prompted Gutierrez-Reed to appeal her March conviction on the involuntary manslaughter charges. That appeal is still pending.
The high-profile trials stemmed from Baldwin shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with what he assumed was a blank gun back on the set of Rust in October 2021. The film’s director, Joel Souza, was also injured by the shot.
Meanwhile the triggerman in this whole tragedy gets a pass.
And he was ultimately responsible being executive producer for hiring this female puke! BS walks & she deserves everything she got & will get😧
The “female puke” deserves a hell of a lot less than the male puke got.
Why is she a female puke? Maybe i missed part of the story at some point
People are dead due to her ineptness. Imagine your sister/daughter/mother/wife being killed because they hired a “professional” that didn’t take her profession seriously.
What expertise or certification makes her an “Armorer”? It appears she knows very little about firearms.
Stepdaughter of Thell Reed. Somebody who actually knows what he’s doing.
She must have just assumed all his business by namesake with no actual knowledge or expertise whatsoever.
Hannah needs to trade in her six guns for a red Target polo and start stacking shelves.
Sure is nice how AB walked on a technicality right out the courtroom door.
It was a serious “technicality” and if it was your criminal matter you’d want the judge to rule appropriately.
I wonder if it was intentional.
Ranger Danger…I guess you’d be satisfied with the technicality if it were your wife who was shot dead All because a man knowing he would be pointing the weapon at your wife did not weigh the what-ifs and take a little time to verify the weapon safe. And insult to injury another person gets to do his time.
“It was a serious “technicality” and if it was your criminal matter you’d want the judge to rule appropriately.”
If it was my criminal matter, I would certainly want the prosecution to make a similar mistake.
It was widely predicted he would walk, and he did.