The district attorney reviewing the fatal “Rust” shooting case doesn’t believe the movie’s New Mexico set was sabotaged, describing those ideas as “conspiracy theories.”
Mary Carmack-Altwies, the district attorney for Santa Fe County, told ABC News that it’s her understanding there were more live rounds on the film set, in addition to the one that struck and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last month.
She doesn’t believe, however, that a live round was intentionally put inside a box of dummies by someone hoping to “sabotage” the set, dismissing a theory recently suggested by an attorney for the film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed.
“We do not have any proof,” she said.
Hutchins died after she was hit by a bullet from a prop gun that was being handled by “Rust” star Alec Baldwin. Director Joel Souza was also wounded in the incident.
“The moment of the shooting, we know that at least Mr. Baldwin had no idea that the gun was loaded,” Carmack-Altwies told ABC. “So it’s more, ‘How did that gun get loaded, what levels of failure happened, and were those levels of failure criminal?’”
Carmack-Altwies said she has an understanding of how many live rounds were on the movie’s set that day, but can’t release that information. She also said she knows who loaded the gun, but wouldn’t identify the person during the new interview.