The father of Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the Santa Fe set of the movie Rust, told ABC News that he believes that sabotage was to blame for the loaded gun on the set, leading to weapon discharging as Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a scene on Oct. 21.
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joe Souza was injured in the incident, but sheriff’s investigators are trying to determine why live ammunition was in the weapon Baldwin used.
Gutierrez-Reed’s father, Thell Reed, himself a veteran armorer in the industry, said that there was “a lot of motive there” for sabotage.
Jason Bowles, Gutierrez-Reed’s attorney, said, “Somebody wanted to cause a safety incident on set. Nobody wanted anybody to be killed. We have developed evidence of motive here. Why they wanted to do that. Why Hannah might have been a target and that has all gone to the sheriff.”
Thell Reed told ABC News’ Good Morning America that after his daughter to assistant director Dave Halls, she stayed outside of the church set where the rehearsal was taking place. He said that it was the first time since the shooting began that she didn’t directly hand the gun to Baldwin. But his daughter also had duties as prop assistant.
“She would have re checked that gun, and if there was a live round in there she would have caught it,” Reed said.
Baldwin told ABC News in an interview last week that he has no idea how the live ammunition on the set, but he suggested that the cause of the shooting may have been accidental.
The complete interview below.
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