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The recording manager for the Baldwin film is accused of previous security flaws

According to court documents, the recording manager Alec Baldwin gave the prop weapon he fired during the recording outside Santa Fe in New Mexico on Thursday.

Film photographer Halyna Hutchins died from the shot, while director Joel Souza, who was behind her, was hit in the shoulder. He was treated in hospital and then discharged.

A violinist plays while a picture of film photographer Halyna Hutchins is in the foreground during a memorial service for Hutchins in Albuquerque on Saturday. Photo: Andres Leighton / AP / NTB

According to court documents, Halls allegedly picked up the weapon from a trolley and went to Baldwin. Then he is said to have shouted “cold gun”, in Norwegian “cold weapon”, to say that it was harmless. However, it was loaded with sharp ammunition, it is said.

Maggie Goll, who makes props and works with pyrotechnics, says in another statement CNN that she submitted an internal complaint to the producers of the Hulu series “Into the Dark” in 2019. She was worried about recording manager Dave Halls’ performance on the set, it is said.

Accused of multiple trampling

Goll believes Halls did not take into account safety rules for weapons and pyrotechnics.

She says he wanted to continue filming after the pyrotechnician who supervised the recording, a man with diabetes, fainted and was taken away from the set.

Halls allegedly wanted to continue making recordings, even though Goll, the only pyrotechnician left on the set, was not qualified to look into the complicated effects to be used.

In addition, he is said to have failed to hold meetings to inform about safety and also repeatedly failed to make employees aware that firearms were on the set, in violation of protocol. An unnamed source who has also worked with the recording manager provides similar information to CNN.

Halls has not responded to the news agency AP by phone or email with a request for comment. Neither has CNN got him talking.

Knust Baldwin

Baldwin, who is both an actor and a producer in the western film, wrote in a statement on Friday that he is collaborating with the investigators.

– There are no words to describe the shock and grief after the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and our deeply admired colleague, he tweeted.

– My heart is broken when I think of her husband, their son and everyone who loved Halyna, said the 63-year-old.

On Saturday, Baldwin met Hutchins’ husband and son at a hotel in Santa Fe, where he has been staying during filming. In a photo published by the New York Post, Baldwin and her husband embrace each other.

In another photo, a apparently depressed Baldwin walks around the hotel with a luggage trolley.

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